The new pioneer.
Headquartered in Arizona, Fastpoint sits in the heart of the American West. Blazing hot in the daytime, bone-chillingly cold at night the American desert is an inhospitable land any way you look at it. While air conditioning and swimming pools make modern life tolerable, this wasn’t always the case.Sitting in an air-conditioned office, it’s hard to imagine what would have possessed so many to leave comfortable lives behind, cut a path across the country, and forge a new life in such an inhospitable place. But as I talk daily with merchants who have braved a foreboding economy to start a business, I better understand what fuels the pioneering spirit: opportunity.
Pioneers walk among us today: brave men and women who trek into the unknown wilderness to stake their claim in a dangerous environment. Their risks are great and the rewards greater. These modern-day pioneers are this nation's small business owners and they are just as important to our economy as the pioneers of old were to settling the west.
When they venture out into the wilderness of our modern economy there is no certainty their businesses will succeed. Business owners often have to forge their own path because there’s no set plan of action to follow. Yet they press onward, fighting through the perils of wild and unfriendly economy, working long hours, making personal and family sacrifices, facing risks head on. There is no promise that their efforts will guarantee success, yet they know that risk and danger is a necessary part of staking their claim in this economy.
We have the extreme privilege being able to work with these brave individuals each day, providing merchant cash advance funding to their businesses at times when the only way to press forward is with a little outside help. With each cash advance we provide to a business, we’re honored to be included in their pioneering spirit.
