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The 20th Small Business Grant will award $1,000 in cash, a total of $1,500 in advertising credits, tons of free publicity and two years of free hosting for your website provided by our Grant's sponsor LiquidWeb.
No matter whether your business idea is ground-breaking or a simple, but yet creative solution to an everyday problem, we would like to hear about it.