Elena Fu

6 days ago | columbiamissourian.com | Elena Fu |Laine Cibulskis

By Elena Fu,By Laine Cibulskis, Missouri Business Alert Jayci Gesling had two weeks to score the first 25 donors for her Kiva loan, a crowd-funded zero percent interest loan. Plans for the joint indoor play space and coffee shop she'd dwelled on for years were solidifying, but the Kiva loan would make securing the money to buy the café equipment more effective than the traditional Small Business Administration loan, packed with the oozing wound of interest rates.