Guidant Financial, the largest provider of 401(k)Business Financing (aka Rollovers for BusinessStart-ups) in the nation, has seen a substantialincrease in positive outlook in star ting and growing smallbusinesses as the U.S. economy reopens. Guidant itselfsaw a 22.5% increase in small businesses funded in March.One of the founding members of the Small BusinessTrends Alliance, Guidant’s Small Business Trends report,released in February, showed optimism among smallbusiness owners, with nearly half of respondents feelingeither somewhat or very confident about the future ofsmall business post-pandemic. As of December 2020,78% of small business owners expected their businessto survive COVID, while only 4% expected to fail, and therest were unsure.
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