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The Intersect Fund – Small (Business) Is The New Big

YoungUpstarts

Upon further investigation, though, Mathew and Shure found that many of these downtrodden were actually rather entrepreneurial – they ran small businesses on the side to help supplement their meager income. It anticipates investing $1 million in small business startup and expansion over the next 2 years, creating 300 new jobs.

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Business Loan? Budding Entrepreneurs Raise Their Chances

ReadWriteStart

The fact that business enterprises rely on business loans from time to time is an obvious statement. Regardless of the scale or the diversity of a business — budding entrepreneurs running from pillar to post in search of seed capital or […]. The post Business Loan?

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Why I Worry About Venture-Backed Mental Health & Addiction Startups

Hunter Walker

Venture capital is a great instrument for high growth companies, or those who are very early in their development but intend to pursue a high growth strategy. And for venture-backed startups this tends to be “get them customers.”.

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Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Securing Capital: Innovative Financing Options for Today’s Startups

ReadWriteStart

Both can also offer the desired funding, but an incubator is more focused on refining a business idea, whereas an accelerator helps to scale it. The benefits of using incubators and accelerators are fairly straightforward: not only do they offer seed capital, but they also help encourage the startup’s success.

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Europe produces plenty of small businesses: restaurants, small technology firms, clothing stores, hair salons, and so on. Access to capital continues to be a challenge in Europe. A small business can be started anywhere in the world, but it takes a different level of ambition to aspire to become the next Apple.

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Twitter Link Roundup #210 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: 5 Tips For Keeping the Books – crowdspring.co/1f1zOfD. Small Business and Startups: 5 Tips For Keeping the Books – crowdspring.co/1f1zOfD.

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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

With seed capital requirements which fall somewhere between a bank small business loan and venture. We look at AngelList today as a platform for early stage venture-style tech investing but as software eats the world, there are startups enabled by tech but not necessarily startup rocketships, in model or ambition.