Category archives: Startup Funding

Funding your small business can be nerve-racking. Use these five steps to fund your startup without feeling overwhelmed.

Money is not the only thing valuable to founders to help them grow.

Before charging ahead with fundraising, think carefully about how different pathways can accelerate your company’s vision, and what you might have to sacrifice in the process.

Funding from public-private partnerships is there for the taking — but it often focuses on startup launches rather than startup sustainability.

Entrepreneurs often overstate their early “success” in order to get investors to buy in. Here’s how to avoid this fatal strategy.

Should entrepreneurs fundraise, bootstrap or go the crowdfunding route?

In this period of peak startup funding — and competition for capital, don’t make the pitch mistakes I did. Focus on the team factors investors are looking for.

Take a cue from Midwestern founders who favor sweat equity over funding rounds.

Smart advice to help you apply for and land an online loan for your small business

Bootstrapping is a perfectly viable option, unless you’re launching a business that needs staff, equipment or contractors, in which case you need money.