Howard Schultz for one. Yes, the founder and CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultz has taken this challenge up himself with an idea incubated at Starbucks to provide loans to small businesses using Starbucks stores as the store front for micro-lending to small business.
Oh, no. Starbucks would not become a bank. No, they are in the business of selling coffee . But they do have 7,000 locations throughout the US and tens of millions of customers who just might be up to the task of donating to the effort to free up capital for small business. If our banks won't do it, maybe the people will.
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