Sam Adams Brewing founder Jim Koch is filling a niche in the loan market by making loans (and giving business advice) to low and moderate "microentrepreneurs". Microentrepreneurs are people who want to open up a small business and the low and moderate income entrepreneurs are those people who would have a difficult time getting a bank loan.
To date, Koch's "Brewing the American Dream" program has created 200 jobs in the food and beverage industry.
HT Mike Norton