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10 Signs Your Company Has Outgrown the Startup Phase
You're no longer a startup when investors inquire about your company without you begging.
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4 Reasons ‘Alternative Financing’ May Be Right for Your Business
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The 6 Questions Entrepreneurs Should Be Prepared for Investors to Ask
By Tony Conrad
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The 4 Worst Tips I Got When I Started My Business
With so many people talking in your ear when launching a new venture, there's bound to be some bad advice. Ignore them for your own good.
By Jess Ekstrom
Business Accounting
5 Lessons From Commercial-Real-Estate Financing for Entrepreneurs Seeking Funding
Developers and sponsors often have to raise large sums very quickly from multiple sources at a time. To do that efficiently, they typically bundle up all of the information on a given capital raise into an all-in-one-package for investors.
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A 3-Point Blueprint for Getting Noticed by Venture Capitalists
A contestant on the upcoming reality show Startup U shares his strategies for winning funding for his startup.
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Google Just Invested $100 Million Into This 3-D Printing Startup
Carbon3D has raised $100 million in a funding round led by Google Ventures.
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Asking for an Intro to a Venture Capitalist
If you want to give in front of an investor to pitch your company, you better do some legwork first.
By Alex Iskold
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Pitching Investors With Customer Motivations Won’t Work
Here are the eight differences between convincing the public to pick up your product vs. getting someone to fund your business.
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Are You Ready to Seek Funding? This 10-Point Checklist Will Decide.
If you start seeking funding before you're ready, you could end up wasting your time and heading toward disappointment.
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Finding Investors Is Expensive. Use These 7 Strategies to Reduce Your Risk.
It behooves every entrepreneur to optimize their investment strategies early, based on time and dollar costs, as well as odds of success.
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How This Platform Makes Raising Money Easier for All Involved
Friends-and-family fundraising made official -- and far less awkward.
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4 Tips to Set You Up for Crowdfunding Success
For small-business owners considering alternative funding options, here are a few basic things to know about crowdfunding.
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How I Met 75 Investors and Raised $650,000
Eight tips on what helped make me a successful fundraiser three years ago and has continued to help me ever since.
By Aihui Ong
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Cash Crunch: What’s the Best Loan for Your Small Business?
It may seem tough to fund a new business, but entrepreneurs have more options than ever before. Investigate them all before deciding on what's best for you.
By Cindy Yang
Business Accounting
4 Insider Tips From VCs
A look at what venture capitalists are really thinking.
By Nina Zipkin
Business Funding
7 Things to Do to Get the Most Out of a Startup Accelerator
If your business has landed a spot in one of these programs, follow this advice to come out of it as the strongest company possible.
By Alex Iskold
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5 Times You Should Rethink Joining an Accelerator
Before your put the pedal to the metal, make sure your company is ready to quickly scale.
By Kate Whiting
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The 3 Ingredients You Need to Impress a VC
Are you likable? That's a deal-breaker with some venture capitalists. But there's more.
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What You Need to Know About Funding Your Business Through Friends and Family
Read this before you approach friends and family to finance your new business.
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The 4 Ingredients of Utah’s Startup ‘Secret Sauce’
The aptly nicknamed Beehive State has a strong entrepreneurial culture and offers ample support for startups.
By John Rampton
Business Accounting
8 Best Practices to Seek Funding From Friends, Family and Fools
If the people closest to you won't support you, why should investors?
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5 Steps to Identifying Potential Investors That Are Right for You
While there are many options for fundraising, it doesn't make it easier to get capital. Here is how to make the process more productive and efficient.
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Watch Out for These 9 Seed Funding Gotchas
Don't rush into fundraising too early or without a plan.
By Alex Iskold
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Meet Color Genomics, the Startup That Wants to Make Genetic Testing Less Expensive
The Silicon Valley startup just raised $15 million in funding from PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Yahoo's Jerry Yang and other high-profile investors.
By Leena Rao
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The 3 Principle Sources of Funding Every Startup Needs
For many founders, raising money is the single most stressful part of getting their startups off the ground. Here's how to fix that.
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Oscar, the Health Insurance Startup, Now Valued at $1.5 Billion
The company has also seen triple the number of people enrolled in the last 12 months.
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Navdy, the ‘Google Glass for Your Car,’ Raises $20 Million
Despite product delays, the startup has raised a total of $33 million in about eight months.
By Jason Fell
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4 Reasons to Crowdfund vs. Self-Fund a Product Idea
With platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, you can quickly see if the idea is something the market wants before investing large amounts of time, capital, and energy.
By Terry Lin