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Building a Business

7 Negotiation Strategies to Get Your Investors Hooked

As your negotiations progress, you need to simultaneously get off on the right foot, maintain your leverage, win the investor's trust, think with an open mind and arrive at a mutual understanding.

By Olga Fleming

Building a Business

These are the 6 Most Important Takeaways From ‘Shark Tank’ Investors

By Kenny Herzog

Business Accounting

Don’t Let Emotion Undermine Your Investment Decisions

By Farhana Rahman

Thought Leaders

This CEO-Turned-Investor, Who Sold His Company For $500 Million, Thinks Founders Should Stop Giving Up So Much Equity. Here’s Why.

By Carey Smith

Business Accounting

3 Ways to Know an Investor Is Wasting Your Time

Looks for signs of interpersonal engagement to determine if you can take an investor seriously, and other key vetting strategies.

By Marina Glazman

Building a Business

So Your Co-Founder is Threatening to Quit Unless You Give Them More Equity. What Should You Do?

As a startup attorney with 15 years of experience, I see startup and founder dispute scenarios on a daily basis.

By Mital Makadia

Business Accounting

3 ETFs This Investor Is Buying Right Now

2021 is proving to be another volatile year -- where are professionals investing their money, and where are the returns?

By Samuel Leach

Business Accounting

Elon Musk’s Tweet Radically Changed the Crypto Game. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Here are four environmentally friendly cryptocurrencies to consider.

By Kevin Leyes

Business Accounting

3 Tips From an Early Bitcoin Investor on Winning the Long Game

With so many distractions in our investor world, it's easy to lose sight of long-term goals. Here are methods I've learned to help keep focused.

By Mitchell Demeter

Building a Business

6 Ways to Make More Cash to Start a Business

There's no 'get rich quick' fix, but these ideas can put some mad money in your pocket.

By Roberto Liccardo

Building a Business

Creative Financing Strategies for Real-Estate Investments

There are quite a few ways to think outside of the box when it comes to funding your real-estate deals.

By Michael Ligon

Building a Business

How to Get Your Business IPO Ready

These are the major categories that public investors are interested in when they're looking for IPO companies to invest in.

By Chris Porteous

Building a Business

How to Use Your Business Plan to Get Investors Excited About Your Startup

If you want to get prospective investors excited about your company, here are some business plan basics you should try, and what you should avoid.

By John Boitnott

Building a Business

How Skilled Advisors Can Jumpstart Your New Venture

Look outside your board members for growth strategies.

By Mark Pierce

Building a Business

This Founder Raised $68.1 Million Last Year, But Only After Admitting to Investors: ‘It’s a Crazy Situation… I Don’t Have Great Options’

At the beginning of 2020, John Berkowitz was determined to acquire a much bigger company, and it wasn't going well. Then the pandemic set in. But chaos worked in his favor.

By Jason Feifer

Business Accounting

4 Tips for Turning Connecting into Investors

Finding investors is crucial to moving your business forward.

By John Vitti

Business Accounting

Cryptocurrency Millionaires Are Diversifying Into Property. You Should Be Too.

Cryptocurrency investors are moving their profits into property. Here's why.

By Samuel Leeds

Building a Business

This Type of Founder Consistently Outperforms Competitors, Generates 10 Percent More Revenue

Investors are always looking for the edge to help them find tomorrow's unicorn. The answer is embarrassingly obvious.

By Michael Lewis

Building a Business

4 Entrepreneurial Lessons from BloomNation CEO’s Poker History

David Daneshgar won the money for his startup in a poker game. Here's what made him successful in the game and in business.

By Shoaib Aslam

Building a Business

Common Mistakes That May Cause Investors to Walk Away

How in are you? Investors look for conviction. If you aren't all in, they may be out.

By Andrey Sergeenkov

Thought Leaders

I Cold-Emailed Mark Cuban About My Company and Got a $1 Million Investment. Here’s How I Did It

The five lessons I learned from this crazy experience.

By Greg Maselli

Building a Business

3 Major Advantages of Investing in Startups

Retail investors can now access startups thanks to platforms like Republic and Wefunder. While it's a high-risk asset class, startups offer investors some significant advantages.

By Michael Lewis

Business Accounting

When It Comes to Investing, Do You Think Like Warren Buffett or Elon Musk?

Warren Buffett and Elon Musk are decorated businessmen and investors. Warren Buffett shares his strategy for investing, and Elon Musk executes on his while feeding into the social media hype.

By Rahkim Sabree

Business Accounting

A New Breed of Investors Are Driving Purpose Plus Profit

Millennials want a meaningful impact in the world and aren't as focused on money alone.

By Sarah Austin

Business Accounting

What Sherlock Holmes, Mother Teresa and Sun Tzu Can Teach You About Becoming a Startup Investor

Three traits every truly great startup investor needs to have.

By Priya Gogoi

Business News

Clubhouse Is Now Valued at $4 Billion, Thanks to Its Latest Round of Funding

Released in April 2020, the social media app has some notable users, including Oprah, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

By Justin Chan

Business News

An Investor Made $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Just 2 Days

Bill Hwang amassed an immense fortune before losing it entirely after his lenders started selling his positions to pay off his debt to them.

By Justin Chan

Business News

Sallie Krawcheck’s Ellevest Reaches $1 Billion in Assets Under Management

The milestone is a first for a woman-founded, woman-focused investment firm.

By Jessica Thomas

Thought Leaders

5 Tips for Navigating the Entrepreneur/Investor Relationship

In a tug of war of interests, it's important that both sides maintain perspective. Read on for five insights into how an entrepreneur should play the game.

By Priya Gogoi

Business News

Addressing the Reality of Funding Discrimination Against LGBTQ Entrepreneurs

There is still significant pushback against the normalization of the LGBTQ community.

By Pui Ki