All Entries in the "Small Business" Category
Debt and Equity Financing: Two Options for Financing Your Small Business
Whether you’re preparing to launch a startup or want to grow your business, one thing is for certain: You’re going to need money. Debt and equity financing are two different financial strategies: Taking on debt means borrowing money for your business, whereas gaining equity entails injecting your own or other stakeholders’ cash into your company.
Debt [...]
5 Small Business Loan Tips
As most business owners will come to know, obtaining a small business loan can be a trying ordeal. Learn what you need to know about getting a small business loan for your business.
An important source of funding for your business in the future can be the bank. Relationship banking has been the cornerstone of small [...]
Small Business Funding and Financing: Finding the Money for Your Business
Finding small business funding is one of the survival skills needed for small business success. Whether you’re a start up or growing business, learning the basics of raising capital will go a long way to ensure you stay in business.
There are a variety of money sources for small business including grants, small business loans, SBA [...]
Small Business Time Management
A great job, wonderful family life and a successful part-time business. Until her employer fired her for poor quality of work and her business clients went elsewhere for better service.
This scenario can happen to any part-time business owner. This is not to say working full-time while running a part-time business is impossible but balance and [...]
Break the 5 Barriers to Starting a Business
Many cubicle workers hate their jobs and secretly wish to start a business. It’s the Dilbert environment with a overbearing boss watching every move and taking credit for good ideas that feeds the dream of entrepreneurship. If ever there was a better time to start your own business now would be it. Entrepreneurs today have [...]
Stress-Test-for-Your-Bank: Personal Finance News
Five ways to evaluate how your bank is serving you in this economy.
Talk about headaches. Having to come up $75 billion in new capital is a stress test in itself for the banks deemed to be in the worst shape by the Federal Reserve. Compared with that, resolving issues you’re having with your own bank [...]
How To Get A Small Business Loan
Sooner or later most small businesses need to get a small business loan, whether to get the operating capital for business startup or to finance an expansion. But whether you’re approaching a bank or a friend for a small business loan, the lender will have the same expectations.
You can greatly increase your chances of successfully [...]
8 Sources of Business Start Up Money
So you’ve got a killer business idea and want to start a business. How are you going to get the business start up money you need to take your new business from idea to success? This rundown of where to look for the start up money you need and the most popular sources of business [...]
Steps to Starting a Small Business
Determining if a small business is right for you can be manipulated by other factors that you need to be aware of. So let’s begin the process by establishing your responsibilities in this. First things first, learn as much as you can about the industry, the product and the demand of the service. The worst [...]
