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 [...]

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 [...]

Average startup profitability is to decrease by 30-40% in 2008-2018

Despite the fact that I am currently only partly involved in the “startups community” I am starting to observe trends in the industry that will influence the way investors look at startups.
It was in 2001-2002 that mature economies experienced the burst of the Internet bubble. In the US investors lost millions of dollars and when [...]

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 [...]

keep looking »