U.S. Small Business Administration Helping Small Business: Start, Grow and Succeed 1

U.S. Small Business Administration  65% net new jobs  Drivers of innovation  Key to long-term growth 2

Capital  Nationwide: $30B  Pacific NW: $1B 3

Foothills Family Medicine  Increasing demand  7(a) Express Loan  Double patients seen 4

Contracts  Nationwide: $88B  Pacific NW: $2B 5

Performance Systems 6  10 employees, 1 location  8(a) certified firm  100 employees, 3 locations

Counseling  Nationwide: 1M entrepreneurs  Pacific NW: 21,000 7

Affordable Care Act  Healthcare Tax Credits  Purchasing Exchanges  HealthCare.Gov 8

Sleaddventures  SBDC counseling  9 employees  2,000 locations 9

Positive Job Growth  40 months positive job growth  7.2M private sector jobs 10

America Can  Out Innovate  Out Build  Out Compete 11

Out Innovate  SBIR & STTR  Small business R&D role  Highly competitive program  Profit from commercialization 12

SBIR  Agriculture  Defense  Energy  Health and Human Services  Transportation  Homeland Security  EPA  NASA  National Science Foundation 13

STTR  Partner with research institutions  Entrepreneurial skills to high-tech research  Technologies from laboratory to marketplace 14

Cumulative Effect  Four times as many jobs  Four times more revenue  $2B grants nationwide  $125M Pacific NW 15

Chena Hot Springs  $100K SBIR Award  Harness geothermal power  Empower rural communities 16

Out Build  Clusters/Manufacturing/504 Loans  Leverage existing opportunities  Jump start growth to greater profitability 17

Clusters  Fostering support network  Grow particular industry or related set of industries  Targeted training, counseling and mentoring 18

SBA Cluster Initiative – Unique Solution  10 economic Clusters:  3 Defense Technology Clusters  7 Innovation Clusters 19

Innovations in Advanced Materials  $2M grant  Columbia River Economic Dev Council  Impact Washington  SW Washington Workforce Dev Council 20

504 Loan Program  Long-term, fixed-rate financing  250 CDC’s nationwide  Job creation and retention 21

Precision Iron Works, Inc.  504 loan  Small structures to multi-million dollar projects  20,000 square foot fabrication facility 22

Out Compete  NEI/Loans  Double exports by 2014  5,500 U.S. companies  85% small and medium-sized businesses 23

Out Compete  New trade agreements  96% population, 2/3 rds purchasing power  Ideal location 24

SBA Export Loans  $1.7B in export loans nationwide  $71M across the Pacific NW 25

Seattle Safety  Exports to: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, France, Italy  New customers: Germany and China 26

Together We Can  Out Innovate  Out Build  Out Compete 27