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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. It was 1991. We still loved every moment.

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Entrepreneur Finance Advice: Top 5 Monthly Dividend Stocks

The Startup Magazine

Main Street Capital is a publicly traded private equity firm that offers equity and debt financing to lower middle-market companies with a revenue between $10 million and $150 million. It also offers debt financing to middle-market companies making anywhere from $150 million to $1.5 Main Street Capital.

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Why Small Community Lenders Have Your Back

Up and Running

Department of the Treasury oversees the CDFI program, which was established in 1994 to make capital accessible to struggling communities. CDFI program awardees financed 13,300 businesses. To find a CDFI, visit the Opportunity Finance Network. Lenders don’t want to finance 100 percent of a project. Do your homework.

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A guide to investing for income and where to find it

The Startup Magazine

But as you build your empire, it’s important not to neglect other areas of your finances – namely your pension and savings. In 1994, William Bengen, a financial adviser in the US, embarked on an extensive study of historical market returns, focusing on turbulent periods like the 1930s and early 1970s.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!

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Head, Heart, and Hands: 3 Essentials for Startup Success

Up and Running

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Go for a convertible notes/equity and save the legal nightmares for when you actually have proven that you’ve got a credible business model. In addition, I have a gap on my resume the size of a black hole, and my personal finances are still a nightmare.