What Angel Investors Look For in a Company

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar In order to consider investing, angel investors must believe that the company has great potential to achieve a liquidity event, and one that enables them to earn a significant return on their investment. The following factors imply that a company has this potential. The first criterion is scale or the [...]

photo credit: Jingles the Pirate Poor credit loans are becoming more prevalent, simply because more and more people find themselves with poor credit records. The credit report may be disastrous due to stolen identity, foolish choices or poor business practices. Regardless of what causes the poor credit marks on your credit report, if you have [...]

photo credit: sytoha / Syed Touhid Hassan When starting a business, one of the first things you need to consider is the method for financing your business. You need cash for business and other licenses as well as for incorporation expenses. If you’re going the franchise route, then you’ll need to ante up thousands of [...]

Business Loans For Every Income

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

photo credit: dokusentia If you have ever thought about opening your own business but never found the needed funding for doing so, you may have put your hopes on the back burner. Owning a business can be a very powerful step in life – becoming your own boss can literally change your life. Even though [...]

Making Our Money Greener

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

photo credit: Wonderlane As consumers we have the power to encourage banks and other financial institutions to be more socially conscious and green. The recent financial collapse has shown that the way banks have been working must be flawed. Now that the banks are “looking in the mirror” so to speak and trying to sort [...]

Venture Capital For Small Business Growth

Friday, August 14th, 2009

In past years, attracting venture capital interest might have been considered to be a relatively unchallenging feat by most successful entrepreneurs and small business owners. With a sound business model and a good growth strategy, it seemed fairly straightforward to obtain the financial investment and support which was needed to boost the business to the [...]

Business Finance Options For New Start-Ups

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

photo credit: Torley There are various business finance plans open to a new start-up, but they all fall into 2 major categories, namely, owner financing and borrowed business finance. Each of these 2 major categories has an upside and a downside that every entrepreneur seeking business finance should be aware of. The key to success [...]

photo credit: racEcar_yayas Most folks are completely behind the “green movement” and have found a new interest in alternative energy. Most of this has to do with the Global Warming motif and huge amount of media coverage on CO2. Now please understand that in the spirit of full-disclosure I am not a Global Warming Alarmist [...]

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