If you’re having trouble finding investments for your business venture then you should appreciate the approach that James Layfield has taken to find financing. Filled with business ideas and frustrated at the lack of funds, James has decided to offer up 10% of himself to investors, reports the Business Standard. That 10% piece will cost […]
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SmartMoney.com is reporting that Twitter, a site originally best known for tracking the musings of celebrities and sports stars, is catching on with an unexpected new demographic: the serious investor. The site is essentially a vast shared blog where anybody can broadcast short messages, or “tweets,” about anything–and where anybody can follow the commentary of
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Experts say there are real lessons for an entrepreneur to learn from the ABC reality show Shark Tank, in which entrepreneurs vie for venture capital, reports Entrepreneur.com. “If you’re an entrepreneur who’s planning on going in front of investors, this is a show you should start watching,” says Melissa Krinzman, managing director of the business
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Sawyer Sparks, a 22-year-old college student from Purdue University, walked into the Shark Tank with a bright idea: modeling dough for kids with wheat allergies. On paper, that sounds like a pretty weak concept, but bet you didn’t know that one out of eight kids has that problem, and bet you also didn’t know that
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WalletPop: Having a good business idea isn’t enough to make money. You also need the means to execute it. Inventor Lisa Lloyd showed up on ABC’s Shark Tank a nervous wreck: sleepless, mortgaged to the brink of disaster, and unable to meet the demands of her business without some quick capital. Banks were of no
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WalletPop: Can’t get enough of ABC’s new series Shark Tank? WalletPop interviewed Kevin O’Leary and Robert Herjavec on what happens behind the scenes of the show.
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TechCrunch.com: This post is written by Marcelo Calbucci, the founder and CTO of Sampa, a personal homepage creator that will be shutting down this month. He’s writing a series of posts about the lessons learned from the venture. “In the middle of 2008 we decide to do a qualitative analysis of our user base. People
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WalletPop: Did you get a chance to check out the reality TV program Shark Tank Sunday night on ABC? How did a young nanny with no business training manage to persuade a real estate magnate into investing $50,000 of her own money in her hand-made idea? And what does an Frankenstein costume have to do
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Did you know that the third largest stock exchange in the US is in a strip mall outside Kansas City, Missouri between a Latte Land coffee shop and a Land of Paws pet boutique? I didn’t either. Newsweek has the story: Each trading day, as a bell atop the M&I Bank building next door chimes
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 photo credit: huangjiahui Going into a new business deal one of the things people stress the most about is obtaining the financing that they will need, especially in today’s economy with such strict provisions on financing. Here are some really good helpful tips on how to impress the investor and increase your chances of
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