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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In the US, you may find that the Small Business Administration (SBA) can get you infusions of cash without normal backup requirements. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Request a small business grant. Trade equity or services for startup help. Solicit venture capital investors.

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10 Alternative Funding Sources For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

In the US, you may find that the Small Business Administration (SBA) can get you infusions of cash without normal backup requirements. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Request a small business grant. Trade equity or services for startup help. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. A range of small VCs are deploying with Flexible VC structures, but we believe the total amount of AUM deployed with this strategy is well under $50m. Of the Inc.

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How to Supercharge your Content Marketing with Paid Advertising

Brandanew

Ads appear very naturally, in almost a ‘native’ setting that blends in with editorial, on top publisher sites such as The Weather Channel, NBC, Business Insider, AOL, CBS Interactive, and Yahoo! It has signed some big names like Forbes, Newsweek, and Heavy.com onto its roster of publisher partners where content can be recommended.

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10 Ways Entrepreneurs Find Money To Start A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In the US, you may find that the Small Business Administration (SBA) can get you infusions of cash without normal backup requirements. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Request a small business grant. Trade equity or services for startup help. Solicit venture capital investors.

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What is Duct Tape Marketing?

Duct Tape Marketing

I started my little marketing adventure over 30 years ago as a traditional marketing agency and soon found that I loved to help small business owners, but I just couldn’t do it with the model I saw everyone else struggling to use. It was an audacious idea at the time and it still is today.