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Funding a Startup
Is 2015 the Year for Your Small Business Loan?
If running your own small business has been a dream of yours for a while now, is 2015 the year you truly make the happen? Like just about anything else in life, being in charge of your own small business will cost you money, money you may or may not have sitting around.
Startup Salaries: Why Less is More
It’s no surprise many entrepreneurs dream of becoming millionaires. After all, the startups we always hear about are the wildly successful ones. Mark Zuckerberg is now one of the top 20 richest people in the world after starting Facebook in his college dorm room, and Jeff Bezos is worth billions after starting Amazon out of his garage.
3 Tips for Financing a Law Practice
The time has come. You have your law degree, you passed the bar, and you are ready to hang your own shingle and start your legal practice. You need financing however, because you have to pay for a place to work, insurance, and all those other startup costs that come with starting any business.
Top 10 Fundraising Ideas for Your Startup
Finding a way to fund a tech startup can seem like a never-ending cycle. After all, you want to start a business so that you can make money, but getting a business going requires money.
Let Me Count the Ways Entrepreneurs Fund Startups
One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” I always answer that there isn’t any magic, and contrary to the popular myth, nobody is waiting in the wings to throw money at you, just because you have a new and exciting business idea.
10 Fundraising Lessons I’ve Learned as an Angel Investor
I’m still just a baby angel, with a lot left to learn. But what’s surprised me most about my foray into angel investing is how much it has taught me about being a better fundraiser. Here are 10 things I’ve learned about fundraising after becoming an angel investor myself:
Financial Tips for Avoiding Startup Failure
For those of you preparing to take on the entrepreneurial life full-time, the best advice I can provide is to be as rigorous as possible with your finances when pursuing your funding goals. It’s never been easier to bring a great idea into reality.
5 Tips for SMEs Trying to Find Funding
Financial concerns can creep up on companies of all sizes and too much debt can of course become a serious problem for any business. But it remains very much the case that loans and other forms of finance are often essential to the prospects of SMEs in a wide variety of sectors.
Financing Your Startup: 5 Things to Keep in Mind
Building and launching a successful startup business today requires more than the ability to deliver a product; it requires a careful and calculated approach to financial management. If you have the perfect startup idea, here are a few things to keep in mind before you begin seeking out the necessary financing you need to get yourself started.
The 3 Stages of Successful Fundraising
Fundraising: Love it or hate it, unless you are independently wealthy, it’s key to the success of your new startup. When done right, it can lead to lucrative partnerships with angel investors and venture capitalists. Luckily, in my experience, the process of fundraising is always similar. The following steps were most crucial in raising each of my initial angel rounds.