DandB Business Partners

As a small business category leader since 1987, American Express OPEN continues to provide and enhance its products, tools, services and savings designed to help make it easier for Small Business Owners to run their business. American express OPEN Savings delivers meaningful savings to American Express OPEN® Business Cardmembers. American Express OPEN Cardmembers receive automatic discounts on a variety of business expenses from leading merchants across shipping, printing, flights, hotels, rental cars, online marketing, entertaining, and more by simply using their American Express OPEN® Business Card.

LegalZoom is the nation's leading provider of online legal document services and legal plans to families and small businesses. The company was founded by top talents in law and technology to make legal protection more accessible and affordable. LegalZoom is not a law firm. It provides self-help services and legal plans where customers have access to attorneys at a fixed monthly fee.

Lendio matches qualified small business owners with active banks, credit unions, and other lending sources. Through a proprietary matching technology, Lendio helps business owners to identify the business loan category and specific lenders that offer the highest probability for that business owner to prepare for and acquire a business loan. Once prepared, small business owners are then introduced to the most appropriate lending source via our Lender Match technology.

SmartShoot is the leading localized content creation platform and creative community enabling high quality cost-effective production of professional photos and videos around world. Our photo and video crowd sourcing platform matches shoots and productions to a network of ranked, rated, and vetted professional photographers and filmmakers through an online marketplace.

SmartShoot has delivered hundreds of thousands of photos and videos from over 50,000 on-location shoots for small businesses across the U.S. and for some of the world's premier local brands
including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, YouTube, ATT, and more.

The Startup America Partnership is a private organization working to help young companies succeed in order to accelerate job growth in America. The Partnership was launched at the White House in response to President Obama’s call to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. The Partnership is bringing together an alliance of major corporations, funders, service providers, mentors and advisors working to dramatically increase the prevalence and success of high-growth enterprises in the U.S. AOL co-founder Steve Case chairs the Partnership and the Kauffman and Case Foundations are founding partners. The Partnership will identify, measure and report on the effectiveness of cross-sector collaboration in support of entrepreneurial ventures and its effect on job creation and growth.

eVerifile offers value-added pre-hire background screen solutions that enable companies to improve their workforce safety and security while meeting compliance requirements. We offer a suite of web-based solutions that enable organizations to quickly perform comprehensive security background screenings on personnel and contractors/vendors using a simple "point and click" process.

Our mission is to provide organizations with technologically advanced risk assessment tools to screen and credential a high quality workforce. We focus on helping our clients achieve higher levels of background screening efficiency by leveraging technology to improve the existing processes of new applicant screening and employee records management, while significantly reducing human resource operations time. Be Certain with eVerifile.

- Criminal Background Checks

- Motor Vehicle Reports

- Employment and Education Verification

- Drug Testing

Palo Alto Software, Inc. develops and markets tools, products and content for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The company's flagship product, LivePlan (www.liveplan.com), provides cloud-based business planning and small business management. The company offers know-how solutions that have made it the market leader in its category for more than fifteen years.

For more information, please visit:
www.liveplan.com

The Pepperdine University Private Capital Markets Project provides actionable data related to capital access, cost of capital and a new national voice in expressing the financial needs and opportunities for 99% of the companies in the country, represetning 50% of the GDP and 50% of the employed workers in America.