1. If you plan to start a company or if you need to re-think running a company, definitely check out one of our favorite authors, Tim Ferriss discussing how to start a business, should you raise capital, his weird shoes and other musings:
5. Credit Not Only Factor In Getting A Loan (Watch Below Video)
6. Check out this video of someone who has turned their passion into a dynamite business strategy:
7. If you are starting a new business you really need to think it all the way through, and then think it through again. Most people fail because they have not thought through their business like their livlihood depended on it. But it does!!!
8. Thinking about getting funding from a VC? Give it some serious thought! Most VC's want to put a minumum of $10mm in a deal or more. Most VC's have no interest in first round funding of anyone and most VC's will want more control than most entrepenuers will want to give up. Still for some, VC funding can be the winning ticket. Here is a good article about obtaining VC cash...
9. Here is where an experienced angel investor, Susan Preston, (author of Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs), describes what real angels want to see from potential investments.
10. VC and author Guy Kawasaki on the 5 points on raising venture capital:
10. Consider using Freshbooks for your online billing and invoicing. Easy, solid and cheap
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