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Angel
Investors: 7 Online Business Plan Scams and 1 Real Deal
We've all seen the hype:
"We'll put your plan in front of thousands of investors!"
"We'll write you an award-winning online business plan!"
"Only $3,000 for thousands of investors ...
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Finance
Your Small Business: So Much Money - So Little Time
$47.4 million venture capital
funded projects today. $86.4 million yesterday. $51.4 million the day
before. These amounts are not made up. They are actual numbers from
actual re...
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The
New Wave in Small Business Financing
This is HUGE. This is tsunami
in the making. Small business financing is on the brink of tapping
into billions and billions of dollars that previously shut it out. The
signs are...
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Private
Angel Investor - How to Take Their NO!
Picture this scenario and let
me know if it sounds familiar. You've met with a potential private
angel investor about your new startup opportunity. During the meeting
the private a...
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How
to Raise Venture Capital
How to raise venture capital
is only for the dozen companies that will ever be successful, right?
If you spend enough time listening to venture capitalists and industry
pundits tal...
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Business
Start Up Funding Silver Bullet
Startup companies often get
frustrated when they can't find investors willing to fund their new
idea. What they don't realize is that in order to get an investment,
they need more ...
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Small
Business Investor - Small Check, Big Headache
I don't know if there is some
sort of mathematical equation you can put to this, but it would
certainly appear that the smaller the investor's check, the bigger the
headache they b...
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Venture
Capital Angel Investors Don't Know Jack
If you've ever pitched your
new business idea to a venture capital angel investor, only to be
tortured with an endless list of reasons your idea will never work, my
sympathies go o...
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How
not to Raise Traditional Capital... How to Raise "Guerilla"
Capital
We have compiled a list of
some practices which seem sure to kill your chances to attract
investors. Ignore these lessons at your peril. * Poor market research,
weak business pl..
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How
do venture capitalists rate proposals?
Most venture capital firms
concentrate primarily on the competence and character of the proposing
firm's management. They feel that even mediocre products can be
successfully manuf...
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How
are our chances for venture capital?
Many of today's new ventures,
particularly Internet startups with their enormous cash requirements,
high risk, and high potential return, require approaching the venture
capital ma...
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How
to convince a lender...
In making loan requests,
entrepreneurs tend to be confident that they will meet or exceed what
they consider conservative financial projections. They then have
trouble understandin...
