Posts Tagged ‘Seeking Funding’
How Technology is Affecting Small Business Lending
Small business lending is a chameleon. Constantly changing, the small business lending landscape has gone through a lot of twists and turns since the dawn of the Recession, doing more 180s than Shaun White on a snowboard.
Read More 5 Ways to Finance Your Business Expansion
Whether you want to increase sales, introduce a new product, launch your services in another city or country, or venture into a different line of business, you will have to spend a substantial amount of money.
Read More 8 Insights for Startups to Attract Angel Investors
Above all, remember that angels are really business people, just like you and me. They expect you to always show integrity and respect for their position.
Read More Stay in Touch with Your Investors
Investors as a group have a common gripe—almost universal. Information flows from the company irregularly, in fact most often when the company is urgently in need of more money.
Read More Short-term Commercial Loans vs. Long-term Commercial Loans
When it comes to commercial business loans there are a lot of options. Commercial loan rates and lenders vary greatly, as do terms. Short-term commercial loans exist to help with smaller projects, while longer term loans are available when needed.
Read More Super Angels Are a Boon to Startups Needing Funding
Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over 60 times as many companies, according the Center for Venture Research.
Read More 10 Incentives for Entrepreneurs to Bootstrap Their Startup
I’ve always wondered who started the urban myth that the best way to start a company is to come up with a great idea, and then find some professional investors to give you a pot of money to build a company.
Read More 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.
Read More 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.
Read More Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk
If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. If you need investors, it’s important that you understand their filters, and even if you are funding your own efforts, you need to recognize the red flags.
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