{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 5","description":"Welcome to DI Squared\u2026.a ten-part weekly feature of KBOO News DI Squared stands for \u201cDream it, Do it.\u201d  This is the fifth in our ten-part series that\u2019s designed to help you understand what an entrepreneur is, and whether you are or could become one.  And in the course of doing that, we want to give you some of the tools you need to start a business of your own.   We\u2019ve been focusing on minority businesses, mostly people of color.  So far we\u2019ve meet a black wine-maker, a Liberian man and his wife with a moving company, a pest control fanatic who escaped Wall Street , , and a guy who sells styling products for men\u2026.    Today we meet Dimas Diaz, a man who came to Portland in 1981 from Cuba and who now sells commercial insurance.  Here\u2019s Dimas to tell you about his long journey, from Havana to Portland .  Bienvenidos, Dimos\u2026Welcome to KBOO\u2026   That was Dimas Diaz, a commercial insurance specialist. Each week we introduce an organization in the Portland area that has resources to help entrepreneurs get started and succeed.  We\u2019ve told you about OAME, a Portland-based networking organization for minority businesses, OEN, another networking group and Prosper Portland, the economic development arm of the City of Portland.   Today we take a leap into the federal bureaucracy and introduce you to the Small Business Administration, known as the SBA\u2026  Our featured expert today is Marty Golden, who heads up the SBA\u2019s Portland office. Marty gave me some background on the SBA: Oka  y, ------- here\u2019s our Question of the Week I\u2019VE HEARD THAT THERE\u2019S A LOT OF PAPERWORK ASSOCIATED WITH A LOAN FROM THE SBA.  IS THAT TRUE AND IF SO, WHY WHOULD I BOTHER TO APPL?   I FEEL LIKE I JUST DON\u2019T HAVE TIME FOR PAPERWORK AND RED TAPE.   Listeners, you can learn more about what the SBA has to offer by looking its web site, making contact with them and asking for the help you need. There are special programs for vets, women, minority people and others.   This is a complicated organization and it may test your patience to figure out\u2026what it can do for you\u2026but we do have a federal government and I still believe that  you can  make it work for you\u2026  Next week we meet a woman who can fix your shoes.  Don\u2019t we all need that kind of help from time to time?  I know that our listeners are the kind of people who buy good shoes and keep them for decades.  This lady will be good for your soles.  And we\u2019ll tell you about a door you can walk through right here in Portland where you can get specific tools, like market research and mailing lists, that could help you be successful.  It\u2019s on North Mississipi, near the shoe repair shop, in case you want to\u2026.cool your heels.   And we\u2019ll continue to explore what it is that makes a person likely to be successful as an entrepreneur.  We keep hearing that word, passion, and next week we\u2019ll give you a new term to chew on, that\u2019s \u201cproof of concept.\u201d It\u2019s not enough to be passionate. You have to do the hard work of testing the viability of your idea.  That\u2019s it for DI Squared for today.  Thanks for listening. If you want to review what you\u2019ve heard just now, go to KBOO.FM and look under evening news for today\u2019s date---or look in KBOO\u201ds podcast section for episodes of DI Squared.  And send your question to theroadlive@gmail.com.  We\u2019d like to make your questionthe featured questionfor one of our shows.  We\u2019\u2019ll be back in a week! Tune in then for the next episode of DI Squared----Dream it,Do it.  From KBOO News, I\u2019m Tom Flynn ","author_name":"theroadlive podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/theroadlive.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"