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[US] Small Business Advocacy Council Launches Crowdfunding Platform

YoungUpstarts

Crowdfunding is a new way of funding startups and small businesses, and Chicago, Illinois-based Small Business Advocacy Council (SBAC) is getting into the act by starting its own crowdfunding platform SBAC Connects. Funding sources include crowdfunding, or from traditional sources such as banks, debt and equity. ”

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Later stage Private Equity buyers rely more on existing hospital management and employees than in other industries.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

They add mentors and additional services and some offer free space in exchange for equity. Accelerators take teams with fairly focused ideas and offer a formal 3-4 month program of tutoring/mentoring with seed funding in exchange for equity. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. It Takes a Village.

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Cash-strapped? How to pay for services with your startup’s equity

The Next Web

From Silicon Valley to Peoria, Illinois, cash-strapped startups look for inventive way to finance their business – often handing out equity to employees, consultants, vendors, and other service providers. Pitfalls in sharing equity. While equity can be a great tool for compensating early on, the drawbacks are significant.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Geleerd began his career at Arthur Andersen in tax consulting before leaving to join Sam Zell’s Equity Group where he underwrote the acquisition of over $2 billion of real estate acquired by the Zell-Merrill Lynch Opportunity Funds (which ultimately went public as Equity Office Properties, LLC).

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Long term thinking -- for entrepreneurs - Startups and angels: Along.

Tim Keane

If they mailed the catalogs at each individual city location from southern Illinois no northern Wisconsin, they'd get there in time.   This whole thing was funded with a home equity line of credit and resulted in a substantial loss for the year of 1989. They paid for the reprints, the mailing and the plane charter.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

Our guest today is Valerie Lopez, Vice President of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Cision , leading global provider of earned media software and services. In her role, Lopez is responsible for providing vision and leadership to the diversity, inclusion, and equity program across Cision’s global organization.