Funding and Building your Business

SBIR-STTR funding is an excellent source of early stage capital that doesn’t require equity participation.

This Venture Capital Forum Exclusively for Women-led Life Sciences Companies will showcase early stage, high-growth investment opportunities to audiences of active angel, venture and corporate investors. I just received this but please note the deadline is June 1.

If you’re tired of leaving your career success in the hands of others and think striking out on your own is a better option, there are steps you can take to ensure that self-employment is a good fit before going too far down the entrepreneurial road.

Financial conditions for technology startups have been cool, to say the least, since the economic crisis began. But now, buoyed by two recent public offerings, venture capitalists are showing a renewed interest in fledgling technology firms.

The ability of a new generation of smart-phones to pinpoint a user’s location through the global positioning system or wireless networks has unleashed a wave of innovation in mobile computing.

Goal-setting doesn’t produce results

Startup creation accelerates during economic downturns as the newly unemployed strike out on their own, making silk purses out of sows ears.

“I’ve never given funding to an entrepreneur who had a business plan with him when he walked into my office,” Mr. Fagnan of Atlas Ventures told The Times. “Never. Most of the information you find there, five-year financial forecasts and so on, is not relevant.”

Here’s why we’re giving away 15 copies of QuickBooks to small business people who aren’t using QB yet: I want you to get a better handle on your business.

These are deferred-payment loans of up to $35,000 that will be made available to established, viable, for-profit small businesses in need of short-term help to make their principal and interest payments on existing debt.