Training to become a dentist is a long process that requires a lot of hard work. Once you become qualified, you need to find the right job for you. Which practice will you join? How will you prove that you are the right person for the job? These are all challenges that you’ll have to […]
Financing
How to Find the Right Commercial Financing for Your Business
Commercial finance is the term used to define a huge range of financial products available to businesses. It’s used for a variety of different reasons, with short-term and long-term deals available. Offered by an external lender, commercial finance can give businesses that extra bit of cash injection to help with growth, or if cash flow […]
Starting a Business? Here are the First 3 Steps You Need to Take
The beauty of becoming an entrepreneur is that no matter what your interests are, there’s probably a way you can turn that passion into a business. And chasing your entrepreneurial dreams can be a truly rewarding experience. But ideas are one thing—executing that idea and making it a reality is something else entirely. If you’re […]
Real Estate Expenses During Pre-Acquisition
There are various real estate expenditures that are deductible to the corporation and others that are capitalized or allocated to inventory. In this FAQ, we will discuss the real estate expenses that are deductible during the pre-acquisition phase as an operating expense to the corporation in the fiscal year that expenditures were incurred. There are […]
Planning to Bootstrap Your Business? Follow These 7 Tips
When starting a tech company, it can be tempting to make venture capital a priority, but finding it shouldn’t be what drives your business decisions. I knew I wanted to bootstrap my business, BuySellAds, so that I could follow my own goals. By following these next few tips, I was able to achieve success for […]
10 Startup Strategies to Minimize Cash Flow Disasters
The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and […]
How and When to Use Short-Term Business Loans
Almost every small business needs to borrow at one time or another. However, not all loans are created equal—and some types of finance are more appropriate in particular circumstances. So, what is the best guidance on a short-term loan? All about short-term loans As its name suggests, a short-term loan involves borrowing a fixed amount, […]
Turn Your Receivables into Cash Quicker Using Telecom Factoring
There’s no denying that maintaining a small or even a medium-sized business can be tough in this day and age. The telecommunications sector often receives the brunt of it, because the face of the industry evolves quickly, which means that many startup companies are often left in the dust. It’s unfortunate because those companies had […]
The Growth Dilemma
Adapted from the upcoming book The Growth Dilemma: Determining Your Entrepreneurial Type to Find Your Financing Comfort Zone. If you ask me to describe the primary tension that has kept me awake over the past eight years as I have built my company, it is whether I am investing fast enough to ensure the best […]
How Financing Can Benefit a Growing Business
Is your business humming along? You might think you don’t need to take on debt and just let the good times roll. However, times can change quickly and whether you are growth-oriented or maintaining a steady, consistent business, healthy working capital is vital to continued success. Even better times may be ahead if you secure […]
