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3 Ways to Secure Funding for Your Small Business

The Motley Fool

Image source: Getty Images Starting a small business or launching a startup is an adventure filled with excitement and challenges, one of which is securing the necessary funding to turn your big ideas into reality. Securing venture capital means partnering with investors who provide funding in exchange for equity, or shares, in your company.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

In fact, thanks to increased scrutiny of investment funds in a post-Madoff world, this imbalance will probably get bigger and bigger. Trust me, if you lose all your money on your brother-in-law's Arizona tanning salon, it's not going to hurt any less than if you lose it in his seed fund. tanning salon/seed fund combo.

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The Token Race

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Mirror is something between a blogging platform, a crowdfunding platform, and a community platform, built for the crypto sector. I earned a $WRITE token a while ago and now publish a mirror image of this blog on Mirror. Imagine your DAO wants to distribute funds to worthy crypto projects. They call it Token Race.

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Funding Friday: Sentien Audio

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I wrote a blog post last fall asking for advice for headphones that don’t go into my ear and allow me to hear ambient noise around me. I got a ton of responses and that led me to bone-conducting headphones. I have been using AfterShokz bone conducting headphones for the last six months and they work well.

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Funding Friday: Flic Twist

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

It’s embedded below on the blog but if you are reading this on email, click here and watch it. The Nest interface is simple, intuitive, and works wonderfully. Also, the video is fantastic. More like a movie trailer than a promotional video. USV TEAM POSTS:

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Funding Friday: Beach Lovers: A NYC Summer Love Story

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I thought I’d blog about one of the projects we backed today. One of the many things I love about Kickstarter is when a friend backs a project, I am alerted. My friend Kirk went on a binge yesterday and backed a half dozen photo book projects and I followed him on that binge. NYC is many things, and one of them is a beach town.

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Funding Friday: The Walk

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I’ve posted the video into this blog post but if you are reading on Mirror or via email, click here and watch it. The Walk is an international arts festival meets endurance event – the length and sheer size of the challenge is capturing imaginations even before our heroine’s first step.

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