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Ten Common Sources Of Funding For First Time Entrepreneurs
By Martin at October 13, 2014 | 11:41 am | 0 Comment
One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” I always answer that there isn’t any magic, and contrary to the popular myth, nobody is waiting in the wings to throw money at you, just because you have a new and exciting business idea. On the other hand, there are many additional creative more...
Key Questions To Ask Yourself, Before Asking For Funding
By Martin at December 31, 2013 | 8:45 am | 0 Comment
The first question most people seem to ask when contemplating a new startup is where they will get investor money. That’s certainly a valid question, but all the money in the world won’t make your business work if you don’t have a plan to use it, or hate what you are doing. I suggest that there are several important questions before assuming that funding is the gate more...
How To Work On Funding For Your New Startup
By Martin at November 18, 2013 | 8:05 am | 0 Comment
A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. After exchanging a couple of notes, I concluded that she was more likely a victim of item #1 on my reject list below, rather than a drought on more...
Ten Creative Ways To Fund Your Startup Company
By Martin at March 7, 2013 | 8:41 am | 0 Comment
Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. Most entrepreneurs think first of bank loans as the primary source of money, only to find out that banks are really the least likely benefactors for startups. Thus “creative” really means maximizing non-bank more...
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Top Ten Action Items: To Best Prepare You For Getting Funding From Angels
By Martin at December 25, 2012 | 9:51 am | 0 Comment
Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Most of these more...
Working on a Sports Projects? Need Funding?Then Try Sportfunder
By VisionwizTeam at September 8, 2012 | 11:24 am | 0 Comment
Working on a sports projects? Need funding? Then try Sportfunder. What Is Sportfunder? Sportfunder is an international crowdfunding platform that aims to raise funds for sports related projects. The sole purpose of the website is to help sportspeople and sporting organisations raise funds and sponsorship via 'the crowd' so that they may reach their true more...
Get Funding For Any Idea Via Noodlecrumbs
By ajay at July 25, 2012 | 10:49 am | 0 Comment
Get Funding For Any Idea Via Noodlecrumbs Noodlecrumbs is a place where random sidethoughts can be put to good use. These "sidethoughts" could be anything you've ever thought about and said, "wouldn't it be cool if someone built that?". It could be a movie, product, urban work, book, song, food, or literally anything else. In Company's Own more...
Got An Apps Idea? Need Funding? Then Try Appsplit
By ajay at June 5, 2012 | 11:18 am | 0 Comment
Appsplit: Appsplit is a new site that allows you to create campaigns to help you raise funds for your app. Appsplit allows you to create campaigns with two funding types: open or all-or-none. An Open campaign is one in which funds are transferred between the campaign owner and supporter no matter if the campaign reaches its goal or not. An all-or-none campaign more...
Your Bank Loan Denied? So Need Quick Business Loan? Try Verifico
By ajay at November 12, 2011 | 10:32 am | 0 Comment
With a bank, you go into the application process blind; the bank runs your credit and you are either approved or denied, without any explanation why. So would you like to find out why your personal loan or business loan is denied by bank? If yes, then try this new service named Verifico. What it does? Verifico aims to monitor and verifies specialty loan broker more...
Bloomspot unveils new performance-based model for local offers; closes $40 million in capital
By ajay at August 10, 2011 | 8:46 am | 0 Comment
Bloomspot is an online offer platform for customers seeking to discover their next local favorite, today launched a performance-based business model that takes responsibility for the profitability of its merchant partners. Basic Idea: The company is closing the redemption loop by delivering complete transparency around consumer spend and return, and now guarantees more...
2 ex-Googlers raise $700K for Minno micropayments
By ajay at May 31, 2011 | 11:35 am | 0 Comment
Minno is a micro payment platform for buying stuff online, got $700,000 in new (convertible debt)seed funding from GRP ventures &Farhad Mohit (founder of Shopzilla). Minno has also announced that they are going to change their name.Now Minno would be called as BuySimple. The logic behind the changing their name is quite obivous from its new domain name more...
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Branchout: Turn 500 Facebook friends into 50,000 professional connections
By VisionwizTeam at May 11, 2011 | 11:37 pm | 0 Comment
Do you have facebook a/c? And do you have linkedin a/c as well?So have you ever wish to use both sites features in one site? I mean to say that how about using your facebook connections for professional networking purpose( just like linkedIn). Well,dont be confused,here is a new site(Branchout) which can combine both( facebook and linkedIn) site's features into one. more...
MaxPoint is refining the location based advertising-Got Funding
By ajay at March 2, 2011 | 4:58 pm | 0 Comment
Advertising is all about targeting key consumers or customers. Without right targeting we cannot produce good results from our advertising campaigns. Right? If we look at currents trends then anybody can understand why location based technologies(&advertising) become quite popular among all sort of users. Whether you’re individual or organization it benefit more...
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How To Find Best Angel Investor
By Martin at February 14, 2011 | 6:02 pm | 0 Comment
If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. Or does it? Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. The challenge is to find the right angel for your, and for your situation. Here are some basic principles: • Angels invest in more...
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Smaato for the delivery of targeted mobile advertising got $7 million funding
By ajay at January 27, 2011 | 11:04 am | 0 Comment
Smaato is a mobile advertising platform SOMA (Smaato Open Mobile Advertising) for the delivery of targeted mobile advertising. Smaato provides smarter, ad-enabled choices for global mobilephone users in their daily communication needs.In more simple words,it aggregate the multiple leading ad networks globally to maximize mobile advertising .Smaato is partnering with more...
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Teamup2gether–Connect Smart Entrepreneurs With Savvy Investors
By Vineet at February 9, 2010 | 9:44 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Teamup2gether is the new website that will help smart entrepreneurs in touch with savvy investors. It provides a simple to use service to help start ups and growing businesses to find seed funds, angel investors or second stage capital for expansion. Teamup2gether is offering a Free Business Plan Evaluation Service to Entrepreneurs as a way of more...
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IMImobile is providing value added content got VCs funding
By Vineet at November 15, 2009 | 8:58 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: IMImobile is providing interactive portals, community and user generated content applications, ring back tone, mobile advertising, music download and video streaming. IMImobile is a fast-growing profitable global company. How Much It Got From VCs: It has got $13 million VCs funding from Sequoia Capital and also its earlier investor more...
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Caring.com got VCs funding
By Vineet at November 12, 2009 | 9:43 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Caring.com provides the practical information, easy-to-use tools, and personal support you need during this challenging time. It will help you to care for your aging parents and other loved ones.Its seasoned executive team, editors, and technical staff have decades of experience producing award-winning health and family publications. How more...
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