Guidant Financial Group
401k small business financing
Use your 401k to finance your business with no tax penalties.
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Direct Capital
Financing Made Simple
Equipment leasing & financing, business cash advances, working capital
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Merchant Data Systems
Partners In Processing
More than an electronic payment processing company - we are a team.
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Verified Business
Entrepreneur Growth Capital
Capital a Business Needs to Grow
Funding for companies that choose not to go to banks or vc's.
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Verified Business
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Cash for Accounts Receivable
Real-time market for selling accounts receivable.
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Insider on: business loans
Small business lending rises in January
PayNet reported an increase in small business lending in January, the third straight month of reported increases. Lending remains well below levels at the start of the recession, and delinquencies rose, PayNet Inc reported on Tuesday. PayNet, based just outside of Chicago, is an original, proprietary, and large source of credit history data on small businesses.
Startup Accounting 101 - A presentation by Mint.com CEO Aaron Patzer
Aaron Patzer, CEO of Mint.com, discusses startup accounting and the financial history of Mint.com, which recently bought by Intuit for $170 million. Slides and video of Patzer's presentation are included.
Newswatch: WSJ discusses proposal to make the SBA the lender of last resort for small businesses.
A Wall Street Journal article discusses the legislative expectations around President Obama's $30 billion small business lending initiative, "given the fruitless history of similar past proposals and skepticism from the Obama administration."
In Conversation with Mitch Jacobs
On Deck Capital
December 2009.
Company.com talked to Mitch Jacobs, founder and CEO of On Deck Capital, Inc., a New York based company providing loans that work for small business-not the other way around. Mitch founded On Deck Capital in 2006 and, to date, has provided $49 million in loans to small businesses when traditional bank loans were not an option.
Debt vs Equity
How Much Will You Give Up
To Get What You Want?
Bootstrapping, reinvesting (your own or your company's money), bank loans, and equity partners. Is there a lesser evil when you sell a stake in your business to bankers or strangers?
Alternative Sources of Business Financing
If the bank won't lend you capital, how do you finance your business? We're assuming you don't have a rich Uncle Tony and don't have a winning lottery ticket in your pocket. Your choices after that are institutional lenders, private lenders, account receivables funding, or selling a part of your business. Finding capital can be tough, but here's how to find a few, and how to be professionally prepared to answer the tough questions a lender might ask.
10 steps to starting your own business
Running a business doesn't stop until the business stops. You can start a company faster and easier in the United States than almost anywhere in the world, but getting it right takes a plan. You'll need to consider whether you need a business loan, temporary or permanent staffing, whether you're going to use a public relations company to get word out about who you are, business insurances, data backup, where are your customers coming from? Will you need to contract with a lead generation service? And this is just the very tip of the iceberg.
Ten Ways to Raise Capital
Money's too tight to mention. Or maybe you need money for nothing, because your product or service is still only available on the back of a coaster from the local bar. Fact is, if your business needs to get some extra money, there's a limited number of ways to do that -- here are ten of them.