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Navigating Business Loans: When and How to Secure Funding for Your Startup

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Image source: Getty Images There are two things that we can say are for sure true about launching a startup. But it is also equally true that creating a startup is challenging. Let's dig into that last issue, funding, because it can be the most challenging of all. This is true of start-up funding. Here are your best bets.

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European Startup Funding Weakens as Investors Favor Bonds

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But the aggressive bid for safety has hurt funding for riskier ventures, including the European market for financing start-ups. In June, after just four weeks, Mistral AI -- France's rival to America's OpenAI -- received $113 million in its first-round seed funding.

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How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

The decision to fund a company is a combination of a lot of human factors—an assessment of one group of humans by another group of humans, fraught with apples-to-oranges comparisons. Today, I want to write about how to measure how likely you are to get funded, especially when compared to other companies. Sorry, you can’t.

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3 Ways to Secure Funding for Your Small Business

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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. Venture capital: The big-league booster Venture capital (VC) isn't just for tech giants and Silicon Valley startups.

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Startup Success: How to Fund Your Business Without Going Broke

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Image source: Getty Images While the reported statistics vary, between 70% and 90% of business startups fail. I know that isn't a great stat to start an article about funding your startup, but it's important to go into business with a clear understanding of the risks. Don't worry, there is good news.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. This is where you’ll find the most experienced, most ambitious, top employees.

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Need Start-Up Cash? Discover 6 Unconventional Ways to Secure Funding Today

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Image source: Getty Images Where do most people find the money for their startup? Typically, they patch together their funding from several different sources, not just one. Then the answer is unconventional funding. Here are some unconventional funding options that could be the key to getting your business off the ground.