Athens, Ohio -- The National Business Incubation
Association (NBIA) has formed a partnership with EquityNet, the leading
peer-to-peer e-marketplace for business analysis, capitalization and support.
Under the agreement, NBIA member business incubators and their client companies
will receive discounted rates on EquityNet’s marketplace and research service
offerings. This partnership is one of several offered to NBIA members and their
clients through the NBIA Partner Program. “NBIA’s partners are providing services
our members need,” said David Monkman, NBIA president & CEO. “These
services provide solutions to incubator managers’ challenges and save them and
their clients money.”
Business incubation programs catalyze the process of starting and growing companies
by providing entrepreneurs the expertise, networks and tools they need to make
their ventures successful. NBIA estimates that in 2005 alone, North American
incubators assisted more than 27,000 start-up companies that provided full-time
employment for more than 100,000 workers and generated annual revenue of more
than $17 billion.
"EquityNet’s relationship with NBIA is essential as we continue to build
brand awareness and seek market adoption," said Matthew Imhoff,
EquityNet's Manager of Sales and Business Development. “At NBIA’s international
conference in May, many incubator managers said their client companies could
benefit from EquityNet’s business assessment and benchmarking information that
compares their businesses with peer companies.”
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About NBIA
Based in Athens, Ohio, the National Business Incubation Association
(www.nbia.org) is the world’s leading organization advancing business
incubation and entrepreneurship. Since 1985, the association has provided
industry professionals with information, education, advocacy and networking
resources to bring excellence to the process of assisting early-stage
companies.
About EquityNet
EquityNet, LLC was founded in 2005 with a mission to establish the leading
peer-to-peer e-marketplace for private business analysis, capital, and support.
Today EquityNet is a patented business support and capitalization marketplace
for entrepreneurs, investors, government entities, business incubators, service
providers, and other members of the entrepreneurial community throughout the
U.S. and internationally.