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Business Funding

Why Equity Crowdfunding Matters to Small Business

Equity crowdfunding can supply needed capital for equipment, growth capital or for strategic hires.

By Richard Swart

Building a Business

3 Crowdfunding Secrets From an Entrepreneur Who Raised $11.5 Million

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

Watch Our 8-Episode Crash Course on Crowdfunding

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

Elite Venture Capital Firm Andreessen Horowitz Looks for These 3 Things in Startups

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

How This Man Raised $31 Million in VC Funding in 4 Years

Greg Marsh unlocked the secret: Start with old-fashioned networking, then grow your own network.

By Brittany Shoot

Building a Business

Crowdfunding, Personal Credit and the ‘Bank of Mom and Dad’ Are a Few Go-Tos For Cash When VCs Aren’t Interested

Only a tiny fraction of startup funding comes from venture capital firms. So what about everyone else? How are growing businesses supporting the rest of their growth needs?

By Aaron Agius

Business News

Slack Raises $200 Million, Boosting Valuation to $3.8 Billion

The latest funding round comes in spite of a contraction in venture capital investing for technology startups, amid widespread concern about high valuations.

By Reuters

Building a Business

This Company Asked Its Employees for Cash and Everybody Won

For the right kind of business, a radical move like asking employees to finance the company can be smart and effective.

By Michelle Goodman

Building a Business

How Creating a ‘Minimum Viable Pitch Deck’ Helped Us Raise $6 Million

Forget creating the perfect pitch for investors. Instead, focus on creating a deck you can iterate based on actual investor feedback.

By Dan Jimenez

Building a Business

How Elio Motors Went From Startup to Publicly Traded Company in Months

Elio Motors was the first startup to become a publicly traded company using the updated Regulation A+ crowdfunding rules.

By Sally Outlaw

Building a Business

‘Perspective-Taking’ and How to Close an Investor in 3 Minutes

Are you watching for those all-important clues? Here's how to do that.

By Evan Loomis

Building a Business

B2B? C2C? VC-Backed? Read on to Have These and Other Business Models Explained.

Here are five business models your startup can use in its pursuit of bringing in revenue.

By Igor Shoifot

Business Accounting

A New Kind of Financing That Doesn’t Involve Taking on Debt or Giving Away Equity

Here are five ways that the new R round is different than other types of finance currently available for entrepreneurs.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

How Industry Analysts Can Help Entrepreneurs Raise Money

Getting venture capital funding is a constant game of selling, and it's far easier to sell yourself if independent third-party experts rave about you.

By Andrew Hsu

Building a Business

What a 1990 Chevy Pickup Truck Purchase Taught Me About Raising Capital

I didn't really need the truck back in 1991, but I learned to look for opportunities before I thought it was the right time.

By Doug Winter

Building a Business

7 Investor Questions Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Know How to Answer

You have more of a chance of attracting investors if you can speak to these seven critical areas of a new business idea.

By Peter Gasca

Building a Business

7 Ways to Bootstrap Your Business to Success

You don't need a lot of money upfront to build up a startup. Here's why.

By Martin Zwilling

Building a Business

Everyone Pays to Raise Money

One way or another, entrepreneurs always pay to obtain capital.

By Scott Shane

Building a Business

The 9 Advantages of Franchising

Is franchising right for you? Discover the nine advantages franchising offers that may benefit your business.

By Mark Siebert

Building a Business

Avoid These 7 Mistakes When Pitching to Big-Time VCs

While there is no universal answer as to how a startup successfully closes a great funding round, there are several issues that usually kill a VC's interest.

By Ravin Gandhi