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5 Reasons To Use Your Personal Credit Card For Business Expenses

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The fixed personal rate is due to government regulations and is designed to protect an individual from unfair practices on the part of the credit company. If you qualify for a low-interest personal credit card you will save money in the long run, especially if you pay the balance in full each and every month.

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8 Big Startup Myths That Hold Entrepreneurs Back From Success

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As Apple design lead Jonathan Ive said , “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. The importance of great design for your startup is not a myth.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. Because so little money is involved, raising seedcapital is comparatively easy-- at least in the sense of getting aquick yes or no. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." Thats nonsense.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.