Funding and Building your Business

Your friends and family will tell you your product is fantastic, so who can you get to spend their precious free time testing your wares (and do it for free)?

Silly, super low-budget online videos are working extremely well for Orabrush, a small Utah-based company.

Unless you live in this world every day, you are probably as confused as I was by the different advertising models, so let me outline the common ones:

Over the past decade, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity belongs to the 55 to 64 age group, according to a study by the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo.-based entrepreneurship institute. The 20 to 34 age bracket has the lowest rate.

Even if 99% of people think you’re reasonable, there will always be the 1% that thinks you’re difficult.

SBICs are privately owned funds that are licensed by the SBA and raise their own capital to go along with money borrowed from the SBA. They then invest this money in small businesses.

http://www.TechWhiteboard.com helps entrepreneurs find exciting technology and licensing opportunities by making the information easily available.

Reserve time daily to research the market, as well as technology.

We feel our mentorship program is the secret sauce.

Startups with a social bent, particularly those that serve the underserved, have a potential new funding source.