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How AI and NLP Make Fundraising Easier and More Efficient

Starting a new company is an exciting venture for any entrepreneur, but every founder knows that starting a company involves persistence, risk and dedication. Often, the biggest challenge is not coming up with the idea...

bySebastian Okser

July 6, 2022

Entrepreneurs Must Optimize Their Fundraising Strategy to Move Forward

Despite the recent radical economic changes, entrepreneurs have been resilient and adapted their business models to cope and sometimes even go public. However, entrepreneurs often make costly, avoidable errors in their funding strategies. Entrepreneurs can...

byTiffany Kelly

September 28, 2021

How Philanthropy Can Create an Impact for Your Business Beyond Profits

Philanthropy. Corporate giving. Social responsibility. These are a few of the different terms that are used by businesses to define their approach to giving back. Don’t be fooled by the jargon. All of these terms...

byAmanda Triest

August 23, 2021

What Diverse Founders Must Do to Combat Funding Bias

It is no secret that the funding world has a diversity issue. As an industry, a recent analysis found that 70 percent of the venture capital industry is white. The study also noted that just...

byKyle Stoner

August 2, 2019

The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs: Crowdfunding Hacks

The following is excerpted from "Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs" by Nathalie Molina Niño with Sara Grace, published by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC....

byNathalie Molina Niño

August 28, 2018

The 3 Stories You Need to Tell During a Capital Raise

What’s the best way to really get someone to listen and draw them in? Storytelling has been the medium of choice for communicators and entrepreneurs since the beginning of time. To connect with another person,...

byDavid Ciccarelli

August 6, 2018

How to Make a Killer Crowdfunding Campaign Video [Book Excerpt]

The following is excerpted from "The Crowdsourceress: Get Smart, Get Funded and Kickstart Your Next Big Idea," by Alex Daly. Copyright © 2017. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of...

byAlex Daly

June 27, 2017

Women in Tech: Kickstart Your Dream with Confidence [Book Excerpt]

The following excerpt is from "Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking up Tech" by Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens. Copyright © 2017 by the authors and reprinted with permission of St. Martin's Press, LLC. The segment below highlights...

byHeather Cabot and Samantha Walravens

May 23, 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

Busting the Myths of Small Business Funding

Securing funding for your startup may seem impossible, but it is no more difficult than making a sale. Fundraising is not impossible, it is an obstacle that requires the proper focus, beliefs, capabilities and strategies...

byMichael S Melfi

July 30, 2016

Finding Funding When You’re a Hardware Startup

It should come as no surprise that launching a startup is a herculean task, especially when it comes to funding. And the task only gets more challenging when your startup is all about producing a real, physical...

byMin Fang

July 20, 2016

The Anatomy of a Pitch Deck

Have questions on what it takes to get funding? Utilizing a pitch deck, share your compelling story in order to influence an audience to fund your business. For those unfamiliar with the term, a pitch deck is...

byMichael S Melfi

June 25, 2016