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How Fintech Founders Can Raise Funding in Difficult Times
Risk-averse investors. A stagnating IPO market. Layoffs and steep valuation markdowns. It’s no surprise that industry watchers are saying the party is over for venture-backed startups. The carnage—caused by a confluence of factors—has also temporarily...
Top Fintech Startups in the Midwest 2022
The Midwest is rapidly becoming home to some of the best fintech startups in the country. Chicago, for instance, is becoming a top tech hub for fintech startups, seeing massive growth and funding for its...
WJR Business Beat: Detroit is On The Leading Edge of FinTech Apps (Episode 308)
On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the FinTech trend and Detroit's role in its popularity. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn about financial technology apps: Tune in to News/Talk...
3 Fintech Founders Share How They Are Closing the Racial and Gender Wealth Gaps
The racial and gender wealth gaps remain a major source of inequity in the United States. Three entrepreneurs in the finance technology space are choosing different paths to solve these issues by using digital tools...
WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Mortgage Startup Tomo Streamlines the Way We Buy Homes (Episode 138)
There's a new FinTech startup in the real estate industry, and it's just secured $40 million in seed funding. Tomo, founded by former Zillow executives, Carrie Armstrong and Greg Schwartz, aims to change the way that...
Why Fintech Startups Fail (and How You Can Avoid These Mistakes)
Fintechs are one of the hottest trends in the tech industry today. It seems as though everywhere you turn, there’s a new startup trying to get you to open a digital account or use their...
4 Options for Funding Your Startup Without Losing Your Sanity
Most startup founders know that a great idea alone is worth nothing. Executing a great idea (and making it better) is the real job of an entrepreneur. It isn’t always pretty, as building a business...
5 Industries With the Most Opportunities for Tech Startups
In 2017, Forbes compiled a list of the Next Billion Dollar Startups, revealing companies poised to become the fastest-growing within their industry. Of the startups profiled, 70 percent comprised the fintech, healthcare and biotech, data and analytics,...
How Fintech is Helping Startups with Their Cash Flow
Have you ever considered how your inability to access cash when you need it is impacting the growth of your business? Even if your startup is profitable and performing well, just imagine what you could...
The Small Business Loan Revolution is Here
The economy is back, and it’s ready to lend a hand If you’re like most small business owners, you’ve been on quite the roller coaster for the past several years. You pinched pennies, made sacrifices...
Business Builder E-Book Series: Finance Fundamentals [Free Download]
StartupNation’s Business Builder e-book series provides you with a FREE downloadable guide to help you start, grow or manage your business. In this Finance Fundamentals e-book, you’ll learn key insights into raising and managing finances...
5 Ways Fintech Helps Support Startups
Fintech is simply a term that refers to advances in financial technology. This technology helps with banking, lending, payments and much more. Fintech is meant to make financial services more efficient, and it also makes...
How the World of Fintech is Changing Finance for Entrepreneurs
Part of my job as a millennial money expert is to stay up to date on all the changes going on in the world of finance. One of the areas in which I’ve seen some...
Why Millennials Are Taking on Entrepreneurship
Millennials have been getting some serious hate in the media for years, but they also have a lot of fans for their love of entrepreneurship. Forbes called them the “true entrepreneur generation,” Fortune noted how millennials...
Fintech, Venture Capital and Your Company
Venture capitalists have moved on from social media apps and photo filters. The new interest is financial services, especially lending. This may create new options for small businesses looking for new sources of funding. The...
Which Funding Source is Best for Your Business?
Before exploring the topic of traditional banks versus online lenders as a source of startup funding, it's interesting to learn where typical startups get their funding today. While no two startups are exactly the same,...