Building a Business
Stop Chasing These Vanity Metrics if You Want to Succeed
Don't chase after superficial metrics; instead, concentrate on what is truly important.
By Darian Shimy
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Business Funding
Watch the Pitch That Landed $10K in 60 Seconds
On this family-focused episode of 'Elevator Pitch,' see which entrepreneur scores an unexpected payday.
By Dan Bova
Building a Business
What I Learned From The First 3 Months of Fundraising My 6-Figure Business
What you learn in the first three months of fundraising your business is the most critical. Here are things you should know — that you'll only learn once you begin the process.
Business Funding
After Bootstrapping My Tech Company for 25 Years, Here’s What I’ve Realized About Funding
Explore the contrasts between bootstrapping and venture capital funding for startups, detailing how each option affects company control, culture, and growth.
Business Funding
5 Tips for Pitching a Winning Business Idea
Discover how to create and deliver a compelling business pitch to investors with five key steps.
Business Funding
Getting Funding as a Minority-Owned Business Shouldn’t Be a Far-Fetched Dream. Here’s How This CEO is Making Public Capital More Available to All.
Historically, minority-owned businesses have faced barriers that limit their access to public capital and other necessary financial resources essential for scaling operations, innovating products, and expanding into new markets. It shouldn't be this way — raising public capital should be accessible for all, not just a privileged few.
By Joe Cecala
Building a Business
6 Effective Strategies to Secure Funding
Use these six proven strategies to secure the funding you need.
Side Hustle
This Former Tesla Employee Started a Side Hustle to Save Gen Z Time — Now It’s Raised Over $40 Million From the CEOs of Salesforce, Uber and More
Dylan Diamond is co-founder and CEO of Saturn, the app that helps high schoolers manage busy schedules.
By Amanda Breen
Building a Business
The Right Way to Ask Someone for a Million Dollars, According to a Fundraiser Who Does It For a Living
No matter what you're raising money for, Wanda Urbanskia says, the same basic rules apply.
By Liz Brody
Building a Business
‘Wait, I Have to Pay to Donate to You?’ How Nonprofits Are Flipping the Script With ‘For Profit’ Strategies to 10X Their Impact
Spiraling donations and outdated dogmas around fundraising and operating costs have left many charities struggling to stay afloat. Some are trying new strategies to make money.
By Liz Brody
Building a Business
How Much Capital Does Your Startup Need? Here Are 7 Key Factors to Consider.
Here's what you need to assess when determining the amount of capital your startup needs — and how adequate funding can enhance your chances of success.
Business Funding
If You Want Funding, These Are the Financial Reports VCs Need to See
When you're trying to attract new investors, there are several financial reports and metrics you'll need to have ready before you have a chance at potential funding. As the CEO of a venture capital firm and investment group, here's what you need for the best pitch.
Building a Business
6 Effective Funding Strategies for Startups
Navigating startup financing is complex. Entrepreneurs find themselves at the crossroads of innovation and survival, where a single decision can either fuel their dreams or extinguish their aspirations. Here we look at six ways you can finance your startup to support your business for long-term success.
Business Funding
Avoid These 9 Pitch Deck Mistakes When Asking Others For Money
Crafting an efficient pitch deck requires serious effort, but at least it's not wandering in the dark since certain rules are shaped by decades of relationships between startups and investors.
Business Funding
4 Steps to Take Before Asking Investors for Money
Entrepreneurs need to ensure their company has sufficient capital. Raising funds is a fundamental way to do so.
By Liam Gill
Business Funding
99% of Investor Pitches End in Failure. Here’s How to Make Sure You’re Part of the 1% That Succeed.
If you can't get investors to bite on your business, it may be because of one of these seven issues. Here's what they are and how you can avoid them.
Business Plan
Embrace Change or Miss Out On Money — 5 Trends to Know in Venture Capital This Year
The VC landscape is changing, and successful investors will be the ones who embrace the change and move with it.
Business Accounting
Here’s Where Venture Capitalists Are Putting Their Money in 2024 — and What Startups Must Do to Attract Funding
Here are the top five industries and projects that are currently leading the market and the steps you need to take to attract investors effectively.
By Vitaly Gerko
Business Funding
You Need to Do These 5 Steps If You Want to Survive the Difficult Funding Market
The VC market took a beating in 2023, and the VC funding market is not going to reopen anytime soon. This article will teach you how to survive a difficult funding market like today, so you can live to fight another day.
By George Deeb
Building a Business
5 Phrases That Kill Your Chances of Receiving Funding
Startup founders are not always aware of how investors interpret specific commonplace phrases. Sometimes, a phrase a founder believes can increase their chances of raising money gives an investor a reason not to invest. These are five such phrases that founders should reconsider using.
By Liam Gill
Building a Business
She Maxed Out Her Credit Cards and Sold Her Engagement Ring to Start a Business. Now She Has $25 Million in Funding — and Smart Advice for Fellow Black Women Founders.
As she continues to scale her company, Denise Woodard, CEO and founder of Partake Foods, has a few things to share with other Black women starting businesses.
By Mita Mallick
Building a Business
A Former McKinsey Consultant Used This Not-So-‘Sexy’ Mindset to Take Her ‘Healthy Indulgence’ Snack Brand From Her Kitchen to 4,000 Retailers
Sabeena Ladha, founder and CEO of DEUX, drew on her childhood love of sweets and experience in the food space to create a different kind of snack company.
By Amanda Breen
Business Funding
‘Everything Has Changed’: How These Founders Bought Out Their Major Investor and Reclaimed Control
Investors want fast growth and a speedy exit — but what if a company's founders think differently?
Building a Business
10 Reasons Your Capital Raising Strategy Is Failing
Have your capital-raising efforts been unsuccessful? Here are a few key areas you need to focus on.
Business Funding
A 5-Step Survival Guide to Fundraising for a Niche Industry
Raising investment rounds in these tumultuous times is like navigating a storm. Founders have to be especially thoughtful when it comes to crafting a pitch that will keep their company sailing straight.
Business Accounting
7 Things That Set Angel Investors Apart From Other Early-Stage Investors
I've spent the last year working alongside hundreds of angel investors and founders. Here's the inside scoop on what makes an angel investor different.
By Allison Murn
Thought Leaders
This Founder Won $10K for Her Safety-Driven Lipstick Company. Here’s the Strategy She Used to Craft Her Perfect Pitch.
On this episode of the "Post-Pitch Podcast," Joy Hoover discusses funding and growing Esoes, her cosmetics company with a mission.
By Dan Bova