These institutions, most funded by the SBA and community outreach, are given money so that they could provide you with small seed money and education for your new business. You may have this business start-up idea. Perhaps you only need a few thousand dollars to start and get the equipment that you need. So why not go to a bank? MORE >>

Just a little seed money will do. Crowd funding is a social way to gather friends and raise money for just about any cause, business or invention. Let’s face it. Your business probably doesn’t need a million dollar investment to get off the ground. So what’s a mom to do? Get funded with a little help from her friends, of course. MORE >>

What I did have was $15,000 in seed money from my brother and mother-in-law (yes, my mother-in-law), a Rolodex, and a burning desire to prove the big agency guys wrong. You're probably making these five classic public-relations mistakes. Here's how to stop sucking at publicizing your company. They include: Thinking one size fits all. MORE >>

If Sequoia gave you seed money before but now doesn’t want to follow on, you’re probably dead. If a big VC has any involvement with your company at the seed stage, their posture toward the next round has such strong signaling power that they can kill you and/or control the pricing of the round. MORE >>

We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. This includes how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy. Field Marshall Helmuth Graf von Moltke. Here’s why. MORE >>