In the United States, banks are still the most popular way to get startup money for a new business. However, despite their popularity, most money comes from private loans, usually among friends and family. And while venture capitalists and angel ...
There is always the temptation, in light of news reports that talk about frozen credit markets and failing businesses, to believe that there simply isn’t any money out there for your business. It’s easy to believe that if financial giants can’t ...
In the wake of the economic crisis that hit the United States, culminating in the disastrous stock market drops beginning in October of 2008 after years of steady decline, there are greater and greater calls for relief. In February, the president .....
Since the beginning of the economic crisis, there have been calls for infrastructure investments in order to stimulate the economy. Ideally, based on a Keynsian model, investing in building projects not only will provide jobs from the ground up, ...
One of the most important and often overlooked business industries is the Products industry. The problem is not that it is not necessary or even that it’s small. Quite the opposite, actually. The reason why it is so often overlooked is that it falls.....
It begins with a vision, an idea. Whether it’s the idea you had late one night in bed or something that came to you over dinner, you have a thought that the world needs something; the people in your town or your area are missing...
It’s tempting in almost any economy to try and start a business. In bad times, you hope to catch the upswing and be in a position to take advantage of when things get better. In good ones, you hope to cash in on the prosperity...
It’s a fairly obvious conception that a person should learn from their competitors. In terms of business, it’s not only legal but perfectly fair to lift ideas from somebody who has already done it, and the race for new ideas is not about who implem.....