The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The second business was my content company. Crowdfunding Traditionally, there were only two ways to fund a business through history. Crowdfunding is altogether different. With crowdfunding, you neither take on a debt nor do you bring on a partner. I funded it with a loan from a friend. It was funded by an investor.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Depending on the loan provider, you may be able to access funding much faster than using other methods, like grants or crowdfunding. Crowdfunding Platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo allow new business owners to raise funds by gathering small contributions from a large number of people -- without giving up equity in their businesses.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

I probably get around a dozen e-mails a week asking me how to get into venture capital. On top of that, anytime I talk to anyone who wants to get involved in startups but isn''t sure what they want to do, inevitably, I hear, "And then I was thinking maybe I should look into venture capital, too.". Well, let me be the first to tell you.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

These can include self-funding, crowdfunding, using venture capital, or through a small business loan, according to the U.S. Data from Google shows that people searching for the small business topic in the business and industrial category over the past year searched for the following related queries.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2013

In the past week, both AngelList and FundersClub got SEC "No action" letters --notices that their crowdfunding platforms were going to be allowed to keep operating without fear of getting run over by the government. A lot of people have asked me over the last year what I think of crowdfunding. Call it fate, call it luck.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Whether your business needs venture capital, angel investors, or crowdfunding from everyday investors, lower interest rates might make it easier for your company to access the capital you need. When interest rates go down, that means the best savings accounts and money market accounts are no longer paying such high APYs.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Stories of startups with million-dollar funding seem to dominate our newsfeeds, but overall venture capital volume is actually falling. If you're broke but want to start a business, you're in good company. Crowdfunding and SBA loans can provide funds you can use to build or grow your business.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Start-up funding is essential, as is operating capital. But the fact is, there are many ways to fund a business, including small business loans , crowdfunding, and microfinance options. You are in good company! It takes money to launch a business. As a result, many people feel they simply do not have enough to launch.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 22, 2024

Whatever your reasons for becoming an entrepreneur, building your own company takes time and energy. You might capitalize on carbon concerns by creating eco-tourism projects closer to home. Another might be crowdfunded loans for solar panel projects. Or climate-focused insurance, carbon accounting, reforestation, and more.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 2, 2024

Also too, you have a ton of private equity capital that's going out there and looking to take on loans that maybe regional banks won't want to take on. There's still a lot of capital flowing into real estate, maybe not the speed it was in 2021. I think that does present an opportunity for institutional capital to continue taking share.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 28, 2019

While some of those offerings were scams or worse , many of the ones that are being investigated by the SEC are serious projects, started by some of the top cryptographers and computer scientists in the world, and backed by the leading token funds and venture capital firms in the US and around the world. You can do so here.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2013

The company provides contextual political data to media properties (Crunchbase for politics) and in turn uses that reach to provide actionable insights for campaign managers. I think there are five key lessons here that put the company in the position to succeed that they're in now: 1) Find a lead. It wasn't just a slight tweak.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. Commercial space is a problem in Brooklyn--there just isn't enough of it in the areas where people are building interesting companies, and the amount of it is shrinking.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Then you’ll want to hear this. There we go.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Annie Thériault, Managing Partner, explains how ESG and impact considerations are key to the firm’s investment processes… How are you and your clients integrating ESG considerations into your firm’s decision-making processes, and what steps are you and your clients taking to ensure ESG factors are effectively managed within portfolio companies?

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Fortune Financial

MAY 4, 2023

Why Invest In 3D Printing The 3D printing industry comprises companies providing products and services capable of manufacturing a range of products. Diversification By investing in companies at the forefront of 3D printing, you can potentially reap significant returns in the long run.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

They know that castles and trains have sold in the past, but they're putting out all this capital to send off to the manufacturer to print a bunch of games. Elizabeth Hargrave: But there was an article about me in The New York Times and there were no copies of Wingspan available to capitalize on that. He just raised $1.8

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

We’ve seen lots of startups like that—a bunch of people who really want to start a company so they form a team and go looking for a problem to solve. Too many DAOs are just experiments in crowdfunding or forms of financial marketplaces. If it didn’t, the company culture part of hypergrowth would be super easy.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

They go up against Bigger Pockets CEO Scott Trench and Dave Meyer, the company's VP of Market Intelligence. Scott's the CEO of BiggerPockets and Dave is the company's VP of market intelligence. You as an investor, as a stock investor, can own pieces of real companies. There pieces of real businesses? Chris Hutchins: Awesome.

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Private Capital Investment in Latin America

MARCH 4, 2025

DEALS > UNICORN SoftBank Group and Dynamo led a US$190m Series E round in MadeiraMadeira, a Brazilian home goods e-commerce startup, with participation from VELT Partners, Brasil Capital, and Brazilian family office Lakewood Investment Management, and follow-on from monashees and Flybridge Capital. Acumen led a US$4.5m

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Your entrepreneurial career really begins in 1985 when you co-found America Online, which turned out to be the first Internet company to go public. But when I graduated from college in 1980, there were no Internet companies to go to work for because it’s so was more of an idea. There was no venture capital, you know, there.

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