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Female Founders, Get Funding Now with These 4 Alternatives to VC

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. startups nearly doubled from $88 billion to $144 billion. So, while it comes as no surprise that 2019 was also a record year for female founders securing these...

byCharlotte DeMocker

July 28, 2021

What Gen X and Baby Boomers Can Learn From Millennials

Millennials can often get a bad rap in the workplace. But let’s take a reality check: millennials are the best educated, most digitally savvy and fearless generation ever in the business world. They charge head first into...

byMarshal Kushniruk

October 2, 2017

How Today’s Leaders Should Respond to the Speed of Innovation

Have you done a SWOT analysis recently? Every business should regularly indulge in such introspection. In the process of considering your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, you may have found some unusual items on your...

byClifford Gross

August 19, 2017

What to Do When Your Startup’s Crowdfunding Campaign Fails

Did you try but fail to raise money through crowdfunding? While crowdfunding is a great idea in theory, in execution, only 35 percent of Kickstarter projects earn the requested amount of money. If your campaign...

byDerek Miller

August 4, 2017

Harness the Power of Crowdsourcing to Improve Your Business

Got crowdsourcing? Chances are you do—you just don’t realize it. In fact, most people have been crowdsourcing for years. Any time you’ve participated in or led a group discussion to solve a problem, you’ve crowdsourced....

byMike Canarelli

February 22, 2017

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...

byStartupNation

November 1, 2014

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...

byStartupNation

October 19, 2014

Financing Options for a Small Business

byMelissa Fisher

October 19, 2014

Startup Funding – A Closer Look at the Key Options

Gaining access to initial funding and maintaining a workable cash flow situation are two of the biggest challenges that newly established and fledgling businesses face. There are of course no guarantees of sustainable success even...

byConrad Ford

September 25, 2014

How to Start a Business with No Money

In these times of tight bank credit, aspiring entrepreneurs may wonder how to start a business with no money. If you have a great idea, but worry about your lack of capital, there are a...

byDiana Fitzpatrick

July 14, 2014

Get Inside Your Customer’s Head

What is one of the most effective ways to increase your sales? Get inside your customer's head. Simple as that. The more you understand about your customers, the more you can solve their challenges, frustrations...

byTom Shapiro

September 16, 2009

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...

byRich Sloan

March 19, 2007