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How To Grow A Company Without Venture Capital

YoungUpstarts

Sure, VC cash can boost your business to new heights, but it also reduces your equity in the company, forces you to focus on company valuation, and provides a false sense of financial security. It was able to reinvest that cash into the business, creating immediate and dramatic revenue growth. Get a loan. Go it alone.

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14 Points To Consider When Structuring A Deal

YoungUpstarts

This is obviously a very broad question as it can pertain to anything, but I’m assuming that some of the characteristics are that it is some exchange of financial value between two parties where the goal is to create a win-win situation. Lock down rights and security. What is a huge success for me in the terms?

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Debt Crowdfunding: The Real Potential When It Comes to Main Street USA

Up and Running

For the first time in 80 years, startups and small businesses can raise up to $1M from their friends, family, and customers via online websites registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This type of debt crowdfunding is called revenue-based financing. See Also: 35 Great Ways to Fund A Small Business.

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The Skinny on Equity-Based Crowdfunding Opportunities

Growthink Blog

The JOBS Act makes equity-based crowdfunding much easier The JOBS Act makes it possible to raise funding from investors and donors through certain crowdfunding sites in exchange for equity in your company. Orders written on them were referred to as "the skinny."] Today, there are nearly 9,000 of them.

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

Assuming you have a large amount of capital to invest, the relatively easy decision is to invest in one of the brand-name, multi-billion dollar VCs. Moreover, VC funds on average earn approximately 2/3 of their revenue from fixed fees. That said, how do you avoid suffering the poor median returns the industry is known for?

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. Craze Productions. For mobile backhauling applications, FibroLAN is now offering the Falcon SE product line. GoNet Systems. Logia Group.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. Click on my name for the link. And thank you Derek!