Ty Kiisel is a Main Street business evangelist, author, and marketing veteran with over 30 years in the trenches, and have been writing about small business and small business finance for OnDeck since 2014. He tries to make the maze of small business lending accessible by weaving personal experiences and other anecdotes into a regular discussion of one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners today.

About Us: We’re 100% focused on small business. We launched OnDeck in 2007 to solve a major issue facing small businesses: financing. We combined our passion for Main Street with cutting-edge technology to evaluate businesses based on their actual performance, not personal credit. That’s enabled us to say “yes” more often and faster than traditional lenders. And that lets owners spend their time where it should be—on growing their business, not seeking financing.