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Today For The First Time in 80 Years, You Can Ask Total Strangers to Invest in Your Business

Up and Running

The Securities and Exchange Commission is lifting an 80-year-ban on the practice , freeing up privately-owned businesses across the country to openly seek investment funding. As of September 23, 2013, American businesses can advertise that they are raising money, and it won’t be considered a crime.

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How to Choose a Realistic Revenue Model for Your Online Platform

Up and Running

Technically, an online platform is a digital place where some form of exchange occurs between third parties. What happens is that you pay Microsoft in exchange for the usage of the latest version of Office, including cloud storage and other features. But are you really exchanging with YouTube? What does that mean?

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. You risk being held prisoner by some long-forgotten shareholder who painted your office when you first opened in exchange for a few shares.

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Update on the JOBS Act and Raising Equity from Crowdfunding

Growthink Blog

The JOBS Act makes equity-based crowdfunding much easier The JOBS Act makes it possible to raise funds from investors and donors through certain crowdfunding sites in exchange for equity in your company. This was supposed to start on January 1st 2013. more on this below). Remember that.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

There will also be a free networking reception at Campus on Monday, June 25th. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Brandsforce - Company Website.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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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.