Funding and Building your Business

Nationally, large corporations such as General Electric and venture capital firms are making bets that green energy will be a moneymaker for years to come.

So just what is a blog and why should you care?

you can’t even apply for an SBA-guaranteed loan without a business plan.

Forget IPOs. Tougher disclosure laws, big companies with loads of cash, and risk-averse entrepreneurs have made acquisitions fashionable again.

When it comes to small-business success. The right name can make your company the talk of the town; the wrong one can doom it to obscurity and failure.

Every time I learn something new about business development, I write it on a little post-it note and put it on my wall. The yellow notes are the ones I learned from success. And the red notes are the ones I learned from failure. Most of them are red. More about that on post-it #18.

If an angel doesn’t fall in your lap, try these resources for finding and working with angel investors.

They’re dependable, caring, experienced, and wise. And that’s just for starters. So it’s no surprise that more and more smart companies are turning to older workers to get the job done right

Investors back management teams that look at the numbers just as much as they do.

Some companies can make more money selling access to their ideas than from building anything themselves.