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Raising Capital for Your Startup: Top Legal Considerations to Know
It’s an issue every entrepreneur and new business must face: raising capital for your business. Even though you may start your business with your own nest egg or your company may be able to operate for a while on its own revenues, at some point, you’re likely to need outside funding to grow. While capital...
How to Grow Your Small Business with the Help of Business Financing
Relying on organic growth to scale your business can be tricky and unpredictable, making it difficult to plan for the future. Rather than relying on outside factors, take control of your business, and learn how to grow your small business with the help of business financing. You’ll be surprised at the variety of ways you...
7 Creative Financing Options for New Businesses and Startups
It takes money to make money. But financing isn't always easy — especially if you're the proud founder of a brand new business. Traditional banks and financial institutions set a high bar for borrowers. They want to see years in business, consistent revenue and excellent credit scores, and those are things that most new businesses...
What Millennial Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Working with VCs and Angel Investors
Imagine that you’re a millennial and your startup has attracted the attention of a venture capital firm or an angel investor. They like what you have to offer (which is likely a business model that has high-growth potential) and want to invest in your business. This is everything you’ve been dreaming of, but at the...
6 Confusing Small Business Loan Terms Defined
Getting a business loan can be tough. You know the ins and outs of your own business, but you might not know how to get the funding you need. To make matters worse, small business lending is full of confusing bank lingo that you may not understand. If you need a crash course in business...
How to Use Payroll Financing to Grow Your Business
Every business has one or more growth bottlenecks. For successful service-oriented startups, the bottleneck is often their biggest expense: payroll. The employee side Consider a service company experiencing a growth phase. Initially, things appear to go well. The startup is adding clients and deploying staff to service those clients. Eventually, though, the company reaches a...
Financing: 4 Business Trends to Look for in 2017
If you have plans to launch a business of any size this year, one of the most important decisions you'll need to make is how you'll be financing your business. In 2016, we saw the rise of crowdfunding and other online lending options — business financing trends that we anticipate will continue into the next year....
Things Investors Say When Really What They Mean is, “No”
One lesson I learned the hard way as a founder is that investors never like to say “no.” They especially don’t like to say “yes,” but “no” is almost as difficult to get out of them. Why? Well, because they never want to completely close the door on what could eventually be a massive missed...
Financing Options for a Small Business
Finding the Right Funding Financing your business is one of the first critical decisions you'll make. A while back, we were approached by "Brian," an Entrepreneur who started a company with a combination of funds from his personal savings account and credit cards. He was looking for a venture capital investment, but part way into his...
Financing Options for a Small Business
Finding the Right Funding Financing your business is one of the first critical decisions you'll make. A while back, we were approached by "Brian," an Entrepreneur who started a company with a combination of funds from his personal savings account and credit cards. He was looking for a venture capital investment, but part way into his...
5 Tips for Small Businesses Looking for a Loan
A loan may or may not be the best source of funding. The ways in which small businesses and startup companies find the funding they need to develop their ideas and target growth has changed significantly in recent years. The process is no longer focused entirely on winning the approval of your local bank manager...
Business Owners: If I Had Known Then What I Know Now
I've made many mistakes in business as a business owner the last 20 years. There was a time in the beginning when I thought that I had all of the time in the world. But now I feel like I can't afford the luxury of wasting precious time anymore by making costly mistakes. If you're...
Business Financing and Structure
One of the most important, and yet the least understood part of your business financing is how your business will be structured. You can choose one of six options: Sole Proprietorship, General Partnership, Limited Partnership, Limited Liability Company, C Corporation or S Corporation. You will find that each of these differ to the degree of...
Financing The Start Of Your 50+ Business
Even with the most disciplined cost control and effective collection of money your business can run short of cash. As a matter of fact, this is a fairly constant situation when you are growing your business. To provide the capital to launch and grow three businesses over the past twenty years, two of them after...
The Angel Honey Pot Continues to Grow
According to the 2006 Angel Market Analysis released today by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, the angel investor market experienced steady growth in 2006, with total investments of $25.6 billion, an increase of 10.8 percent over 2005. This is an irrefutable statement about the fact that the money is...
Cool Company of the day: Prosper.com
By our own experience and by the sheer volume of callers we talk to on our Radio Show, it's clear that raising money is one of the most intimidating and difficult parts of starting up a business. That's why we've chosen Prosper.com as today's Cool Company. Prosper.com is a new kind of source of money...
Business Financing: Find the Money People
“Dream financiers” - you know who they are - bankers, venture capitalists, those extraordinary high net-worth individuals called “angel investors” who can make your startup business financing happen. Knowing who they are is one thing, but getting to them is another thing all together. In all of the murkiness of raising funds for a new...