Funding and Building your Business

The average age of a first-time founder of a company is 39 — meaning that start-up life for some entrepreneurs is less about video game marathons on Saturdays and more about balancing parental responsibilities.

Here’s how they do it.

I’m an entrepreneur, business woman, wife, and soon to be mom.

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition.

APIs create amazing opportunities for inventors, entrepreneurs and others who want to start their own small businesses.

In most cases, Media Camp is no different from most other incubators: Companies accepted into the program get an investment of about $20,000 in exchange for a maximum 6 percent of equity. In exchange, they get 12 weeks of administrative and legal help, participate in weekly dinners, and get one-on-one mentorship from executives in the media industry.

Here are a few clues that you can look for in yourself, to see if you slipping into this abyss:

Here are a few of the most common mistakes, as well as tips on how you can avoid them.

Successful social fundraising campaigns should educate, empathize with the impacted community, provide donors with gratification and recruit influencers for their committees.

The nature of the economy, and what we think of as our economic challenges, is about to take a startling turn.