Where can I find sources of finance for small business startups?

Many people keep sending e-mails asking this questions… so let us try to discuss it a bit…
Typically, you get funds for your business from the following sources:
- Your own savings or resources (bank accounts, stocks, bonds, or even 401Ks)
- Credit cards — an expensive source of capital, but common among small business owners because they [...]

Lucratives - find the best marketing articles online

Getting to grips with Internet Marketing can be a little bit daunting at first. It can be difficult to know what to research first, who to trust and where to start. Then there´s the Internet jargon… It´s all extremely confusing when you don´t know what it means.
The problem with the Internet is not the lack [...]

Startups Toolkit: 14 insightful articles you can’t do without

Those have probably helped many of you:
Innovations will kill startups profitability and will make the bubble burst in 2008-2018
It is not the money spent on marketing that makes a startup successful
The secret of developing succesfull and profitable “mash-ups”
What makes a startup sexy and successful? 5 points.
Invest In Me! Grabbing The VC’s Attention
Is it important to have a blog when launching [...]

The secret of developing succesfull and profitable “mash-ups”

When life seems less inspiring, we take retreat in our own thoughts and start sketching them through words. Blogging is the new age version of writing a daily journal and technological inventions are being made to simplify and beautify it. Spinlets are embeddable chunks of codes that help you take out content for your blog, [...]

What makes a startup sexy and successful? 5 points.

It would take me at least 10 hours to answer this question, but there are 5 things that seem to be absolutely essential:1. a good startup is a completely new project or a good adaptation of an old idea.This is what I mean. If you invented yahoo you would be really happy to see so [...]

Invest In Me! Grabbing The VC’s Attention

by Jeff Turk 
If you are an entrepreneur in pursue of VC funding, here are a few insightful tips to get them looking in your direction:

Utilize College Professors: Speaking from personal experience, this is the quickest way to get on the horn with a VC. Get networked in through a university professor. More often than not, they will [...]

First mover effect is vital for startups. Do you want to know why?

Those of you who study economics probably know the concept of first mover effect. It basically means that a company that is willing to internationalize is likely to succeed on condition that it is the first one to move to a given market.
Something similar takes when launching startups. In this case you have three stages:
1. [...]

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