Funding

Do You Really Need A VC?

According to Business Insider, only 3 out of every 100 companies that try to get cash from angel investors succeed. The success rate with venture capitalists is even lower. Disappointed yet? The truth is, you do not always need an investor to get going. Below are a few tips that will help you get off

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Prison Currency Is Fishy

The Wall Street Journal: When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, “I had a stack of macks.” Levine and his client were prisoners in California’s Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex. Like other federal inmates around the country, they

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Crowdfund Donations From Alumni

Mashable: What if funding a project for your university interest group was as simple as asking school alumni who benefited from the group while they were in school? That’s the idea behind Schoolyard, a startup that connects students and alumni through student organizations to fundraise. The idea for the project came from founder Dan Gailey’s

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