When things get unstable in the workforce the unemployed tend to look towards self-employment as an alternative. However, the switch isn’t for the faint of heart. You have to feel a certain dedication to what you want to do before you can succeed with it. Alexia Parks for The Huffington Post recently touched on the […]
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For startups that aren’t interested in paying to pitch their business to angel investors there are some free services popping up that might help reports The Wall Street Journal. Earlier this year, Internet entrepreneur and blogger Jason Calacanis started Open Angel Forum, which holds free pitch events in various cities where entrepreneurs selected from a
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According to Fast Company, there seem to be as many business models as colors in the rainbow … yet few have the charitable cachet of “Causium.” This is a wildly successful and public-spirited invention by software company Atlassian. Atlassian announced that through their Causium software distribution model they’ve amassed a grand total of $500,000 in
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Like a lot of small business owners in early 2009, Ruth Klahsen found herself desperately seeking capital and finding nothing but refusal everywhere she looked. Until, that is, the Ontario cheese maker hit upon the idea of asking her customers to help finance a $1 million new dairy, reports AOL Small Business. Abandoning the search
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“Small businesses are the future of America,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in NYC. ReadWriteWeb reports that Bloomberg described New York City as “the place to come” for entrepreneurs and startups, announcing that the city-sponsored NYC Entrepreneurial Fund had made its first investment in local startup MyCityWay. Bloomberg
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AOL Small Business asks who better to help mompreneurs than a diaper company? Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies recently announced the launch of the Huggies MomInspired Grant Program, which will provide mothers with up to $15,000 total in seed capital and business resources to help turn their business ideas into reality. In order to be eligible, companies do
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According to Mashable.com, the U.S.’s proposed Financial Reform bill could place some pretty tough constraints on angel investors, possibly upsetting the balance of early-stage venture capital for tech startups. A report got into the nitty-gritty details of the massive bill and uncovered some stipulations that would definitely affect the early-stage investment market, possibly making raising
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According to AllBusiness.com, while microcredit loans first originated in the Third World as a way to help launch small businesses thousands of American entrepreneurs are finding it as the alternative solution to traditional lending. Many of the micro lenders, which are mostly non profits, receive the bulk of its funds from the Small Business Administration.
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BBC News: Got a great business idea but no money to finance it? It’s the age old problem faced by would-be entrepreneurs. But a new generation of online funding platforms is taking the pain out of raising capital to get new ventures off the ground. The platforms cater for everyone from starving artists to tech
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In March 2009, President Obama vowed to address the drought of bank lending to small companies and announced an initiative to use $15 billion from the federal bailout to unfreeze the markets that finance Small Business Administration loans. More than a year later, the program was finally launched — as a $21 million effort, reports
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