Creative Financing for Startups

by Norma

Stop Delud­ing Yourself


Afew entre­pre­neurs always seem to find solu­tions to every prob­lem, even finan­cial prob­lems. On the other hand, far more new busi­ness own­ers wait month after month for money to fall into their laps. Other peo­ple rush out ask­ing for big bucks to bankroll lengthy projects yet offer no guar­an­tees that once the project is com­pleted, the result will sell. You will rec­og­nize them by their moan­ing, groan­ing and grip­ing about stu­pid investors are who fail to under­stand the “great oppor­tu­nity” their startup is offer­ing.

Here are four arti­cles from around the web to help us change our out-​of-​date think­ing and start deal­ing with today’s real­ity instead:

  1. How to raise cap­i­tal if you’re just start­ing a business
  2. Don’t scare off investors
  3. Financ­ing the way it was
  4. Today’s cre­ative financ­ing
    With the web you now have dozens of addi­tional ways to use cre­ative financ­ing to launch your startup.

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Have you run across any good arti­cles on get­ting financ­ing for star­tups?
Please leave us a comment.

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Brian Benenhaley January 30, 2010 at 12:01 am

In the past cou­ple months I have seen many that are look­ing for fund­ing, they are ask­ing for fund­ing, but they are not get­ting the fund­ing. Because they are ask­ing the wrong peo­ple. Find­ing the right peo­ple is the real trick that they need to learn. Not just for Fund­ing, once they know how to find the money peo­ple, they will learn how to fill other roles once their com­pa­nies grow.

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Martin Small January 30, 2010 at 1:02 am

Those are some really great resources/​articles!! It’s so hard to find great con­tent rel­e­vant to start-​up financ­ing or small busi­ness loans. It’s so hard for entre­pre­neurs to find small busi­ness loans, so these arti­cles will def­i­nitely come in handy. Thanks for shar­ing these valu­able resources!

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