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The VC relationships you gain are far more important than the money, so choose wisely.

Kimberley Ho is a former Wall Street investor who launched her own direct-to-consumer family skincare company, Evereden.

Think big and pitch with passion.

Opening a franchise requires lots of capital. If you need a business loan to make it happen, here are the best options available.

Regardless of the outcome you're swinging for, you'll need to build a sustainable business to get there.

The current VC model is skewed to favor the style of male-run companies. Here's how women and minorities can get a seat at the table.

Without you, your deck is just a memo with diagrams.

Women tend to bootstrap to avoid raising debt. Men tend to raise money however they can and bootstrap to make it go further.

Venture firms are funding fewer startups, mostly in selected places. If yours is outside the promised land that is Silicon Valley, business development companies might be your best bet for funding.

It's the often unseen trigger -- that invisible 'something' -- that gets them to bite. Seek it, use it, close the deal.

Learn from the entrepreneur's successes -- and his mistakes.

Where men were 'young and promising,' women were 'young, but inexperienced.'

Venture capital firms are using machine learning to make their investment decisions. Here's how to use AI for better business insights and better access to funds.

There are two fundamentally different kinds of entrepreneurs. It doesn't matter which you are, so long as you know which you are.

You can thrive with a little help from your friends.

Attracting valuable clients requires that you invest in revenue drivers, existing clients -- and yourself

His representative said he spent his time there talking about 'technology and building companies.'

Taking on investors is one way to grow your business -- but before you seek funding, make sure it's the right path for you.

Against the odds, but it's possible. Or at least it's not impossible.

Valery Komissarova helped launch the venture capital firm Grishin Robotics, whose co-investors include Larry Page and Richard Branson.

In this period of peak startup funding -- and competition for capital, don't make the pitch mistakes I did. Focus on the team factors investors are looking for.