Posts Tagged ‘Seeking Capital’
How to Broaden Your Search for the Right Investors
If you’re part of an accelerator or startup, the SEC just granted you a new way to approach funding in 2014: the right to solicit a broader range of investors.
Read More How to Get the Right Investor to Fund Your Startup
Time is too precious to waste trying to close a deal with the wrong investors at the wrong time. Luckily, not all investors are looking for the same thing, so it pays to know what type of investors are most interested in what your startup brings to the table.
Read More Don’t Be Defensive, But Defend
When meeting with investors, during the period devoted to feedback after your presentation, you will hear comments and recommendations that don’t resonate with you.
Read More Alternative Financing for Full-Service Restaurants
If your full-service restaurant has applied for and been denied a bank loan in the past, you’re not alone. Historically, restaurants have been one of the riskiest industries for entrepreneurs to undertake and banks have always been weary of lending to them.
Read More Turn the Table: What’s an Angel Look Like?
Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options.
Read More Find Your Champion
If you seek funds from an organized investment group such as an angel fund, venture capital entity, or even an investment club, the first thing you want to do is to find one person to buy into your vision.
Read More 3 Benefits to Bootstrapping Your Company
Recently, the St. Louis Business Journal described 2013 as the year “St. Louis tech took the money and ran,” profiling just how much money our city’s tech startups raised last year. The number is pretty impressive: $56M+ from just our top five startups.
Read More Crowdfunding: A Roar from a Young Lion
Can you imagine having 300 shareholders? With recent legislation and new portals on the Web, it’s entirely possible, perhaps for the first time for small businesses.
Read More Equity Financing: Great for Rapid Growth Startups
We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected.
Read More 4 Strategies to Attract Investors to a Small Business
By getting others to back a small business financially, the company will have a much better chance of being prosperous over the long haul. The good news is that there are several options aspiring entrepreneurs and established small business owners can use to attract others to a company for the purpose of helping to fund it.
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