The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Dan Lok explains what venture capital funding is and how to secure it for your business. It is a type of financing that investors can provide to startups and small businesses which are believed to have the potential for success in the long term. What is Venture Capital Funding? Venture capital is a type of private equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business With all the new technology available today for video conferencing, interactive social media, and webinars, you may think that travel is no longer a requirement for starting a small business. Yet I still see business plans and funding plans for startups that have minimal or no allocation for travel.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. By doing so, they help mitigate the aftermath of the pandemic and make the business world a better place. In distributed teams, employee engagement is critical. Staying connected with partners, teams, and clients is one of them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It was also challenging circumventing the retail-distributor-retail process: food stores won’t bring you on board without distribution and distributors won’t bring you on board without a list of several stores that carry your product. We are currently in national distribution where I hope to see our current fan base grow.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Usually, we think what differentiates small business vs. large business are their sales figures and number of employees. Being a small business owner you can upgrade the followings technologies at your place. According to Facebook, more than 2 million small to mid-sized businesses advertise on Facebook.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 9, 2021

An angel investor is an individual (and usually a wealthy one) who is willing to invest in small businesses. The idea here is to attract small amounts of funding from a large number of micro-investors, rather than working with one wealthy individual or large firm. Angel investors. Grants and loans. Determining Your Priorities.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2018

But the best of all is that now small operators have direct access to international clients through an integrated on-site booking system for a fraction of a price. There is no monthly fee or setup fee, which can save small businesses a decent amount of money.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

The end user of the application was those who recycled, however, the recycling and reward redemption process required partnerships with recycling facilities, local businesses, and government agencies. Those partners paid for a membership with Recycler Spotter. 60 percent of respondents chose premium! Priorities change.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2017

Here are five simple ideas that are easy on the budget, making them an ideal starting point for a newer small business. To attract a bigger crowd, consider partnering with other local stores that complement your brand and product or service offers to avoid unnecessary competition. Social good is great for business.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2020

ReferralCandy helps brands set up and run customer referral programs (such as Give $10, get $10) on autopilot — that means tracking referral purchases and distributing referral rewards automatically. My best advice for online businesses to generate sales is to invest in SEO. That’s where a company such as ReferralCandy can help.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. A key to building a company that sells to the small business user or individual is usability.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

With time and attention scarce, it’s difficult for entrepreneurs and small business owners to upgrade or learn new skills. There are, of course, millions of published articles and blog posts about entrepreneurship, business, finance, and management. Learn how to market and brand your small business ?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2024

I asked a bunch of investors I knew to sign up a widely distributed Open Office Hours—across firms and across places, wherever investors wanted to meet. We had 70 investors sign up! What surprised a lot of the investors was the quality of the founders and the ideas.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Whether it’s sponsorships, co-branded products or exclusivity deals, for many businesses to grow a partnership is as inevitable as acquiring funding. But what if you own a small business? Does partnering with other businesses make sense? What are the advantages of small business partnerships?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Steve is also the author of Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2017

If you are facing any of the issues listed below, know that it’s still worthwhile to try to get things right by way of contract and to repair your strained relationship with your business partner. Your business partner has used his company shares as collateral for a bank loan. Your business partner is ‘moonlighting’.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. Every week that we let go by, more people were closing their businesses sometimes permanently, more people were losing their job and becoming food insecure in a lot of cases."

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

by Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “ “Obama’s tax policies will cripple small businesses!” Whoever heads up our government will have only a minimal impact on the small businesses that form the backbone of our nation.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Sometimes it’s the smaller business that has more freedom to innovate. An increasing number of big companies are hiring small businesses to help them develop innovative products, processes and procedures. If your company is an innovator, you may be able to team up with larger firms to grow your business much more rapidly.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

If your business is just you or it involves 10 employees in the field, you still need to detail the personal responsibilities for managing data. Everyone involved in the business, whether it’s your uncle that does accounting, or your teenage kids that distribute surveys, needs to know how to protect your data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2020

The Small Business Guide to Podcasting written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Not only is it convenient for listeners who want topics that they’re interested in on-demand, but it’s also valuable for the person or business hosting them. Recording – You can use Squadcast, Skype or Zoom.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, for example, IBM set out to expand its cloud business. It shopped around for partners and eventually decided to purchase SoftLayer , a successful cloud infrastructure provider. In addition, Unilever Ventures invests globally in companies that can further Unilever’s business and sustainability goals.

Small Business 100

Small Business Balance Sheet Cloud Programming 100

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

With time and attention scarce, it’s difficult for entrepreneurs and small business owners to upgrade or learn new skills. There are, of course, millions of published articles and blog posts about entrepreneurship, business, finance, and management. Learn how to market and brand your small business ?

Programming 48

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 48

Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

Data is dormant in old-world businesses. Now, data is pulsing through customer experience, conversation, distribution, claims and inspections in insurance, and more. Enhanced tracking will enable more remote work, decoupling the requirement to be local to the other partners or contractors for the business being founded.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Rather than thinking of a business plan as a hefty document that you’ll only use once (perhaps to obtain a loan from a bank), think of it as tool to manage how your business grows and achieves its goals. No two businesses are the same! As your business grows you can flesh out the sections as you see fit.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We finally found a reliable partner and I am very confident that this service will be as successful as the others we deliver. We’re a small business, founded by two sisters.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Even though many states have reopened following initial shutdowns, some are reimposing restrictions, reigniting fears about cash flow and small business survival. Small firms should strive to capitalize on the new stimulus package, which includes a new PPP [credit]. Thanks to Sarah Jameson, Green Building Elements !

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

Many times the startups product or service is to provide a more efficient way around recreating and distributing a product or service that is already a business. As Sanjay Nath, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures, tells YourStory: “ Indian entrepreneurs never lacked imagination.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S. The country exited the Civil War as a nation of small businesses and ended the century with large national corporations (railroads, steel, oil, food, insurance, etc.). Soon others were created.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 8, 2013

One thing that has always intrigued me, however, was how the "chemistry" between the "star" and the professional dancer they're partnered with has as much to do with the couple's success as the "star's" dancing prowess. However, partnering is more than simply two companies working together. It requires much more!

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2017

For more information, I suggest you read Seth Godin’s book “Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable.” This can still be done in small business—every one of my businesses was self-funded. VCs are also only going to invest in high growth, high potential return businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

Sell Shares/Take On Business Partners. If the current crisis has reminded you that you don’t want to be in business by yourself, setting up a legal business entity can help you bring business partners, shareholders or co-owners on board. It’s not possible to sell or divide ownership of a sole proprietorship.

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LLC Bankruptcy Venture Capital Stock 255

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2015

Of course, there is a vast difference between communications that relate to the security of a nation and those that relate to a small business, but the metaphor is a good one: by choosing to avoid the scrutiny that could come with transparency, Secretary Clinton has created an environment of mistrust, suspicion, and doubt.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

While there are many reasons behind this failure, the most apparent reason is the lack of the required skill set and business acumen to grow and succeed. Most small business owners have no idea what parameters to use for market research, how to acquire more capital, and how to minimize risk in a rapidly changing market.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 27, 2020

Specifically, the number of women-owned businesses has increased 31 times between 1972 and 2018 (in 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for just 4.6% But the aid programs are largely failing to address the needs of these key entrepreneurial communities and the PPP loans are not getting broadly distributed across these demographics.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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