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How to Secure Funding for Your Small Business: Insider Tips

The Motley Fool

Crowdfund Crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter have emerged as powerful tools for raising funds directly from potential customers and supporters. These investors are in search of opportunities that promise significant returns.

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Time for VCs to Get Their Act Together

This is going to be BIG.

We have theories that are the worst kind of popular tripe, our methods are sloppy and our returns are highly questionable. Many of us, fellow VCs, are a poor investors. A lot of people have asked me over the last year what I think of crowdfunding. For many investors, its a pretty sobering experience. call it karma.

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Could Fed Rate Cuts Make It Easier to Start a Business? 3 Reasons Why

The Motley Fool

More appetite for risk from investors As part of the overall "easy money" effect of Fed interest rate cuts, some small businesses might have an easier time raising money from investors. When interest rates go down, that means the best savings accounts and money market accounts are no longer paying such high APYs.