EDENTON — For many small-business owners, access to capital is the challenge standing between where they are today and where they hope to be tomorrow. But according to SBA Southeast Regional Administrator Tyler C. Teresa, another challenge is already on the horizon: who will take over those businesses when their owners retire? That was one of the driving forces behind the U.S. Small Business Administration’s first North Carolina Lender Matchmaking Expo, recently held at the College of The Albemarle’s Chowan-Edenton campus.

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