Using Your 401(k) to Buy a Small Business
It takes a creative and determined buyer to purchase a small business in today's lending environment.
View ArticleA Pitch for a Pollution Solution Goes Off the Deep End
There was a lot to like about the first part of this pitch, including a socially conscious solution to a serious problem.
View ArticleWould You Take a Private Equity Investment?
There can be compelling reasons to take the money. Right now, there happen to be a lot of investors looking for deals and a lot of businesses looking to sell.
View ArticleDrilling Down: The Impact of a Very Small Loan
The Intersect Fund focuses on sole proprietors with one or no employees that operate in traditional, "bread-and-butter" industries -- beauty salons, cleaning services and caterers.
View ArticlePitching a Brokerage Service for Canceled Weddings
A business idea from a woman with an unusual take on the bridal market is reviewed.
View ArticlePitching a Surveillance System for Tugboats
This presentation hits on virtually all of the items that make a great pitch.
View ArticleUsing Crowdfunding to Start a Company With a Cause
For Kara Gorski and Kristin Gembala, starting a company to manufacture bras for breast-cancer survivors was more than just business.
View ArticleWhat Price Growth?
Have you asked yourself why you want your business to grow? Have you considered the potential costs?
View ArticleThe Genius of Starting a Company Without Outside Capital
Every month that business owners spend hunting for money instead of developing and marketing their product or service, they are wasting valuable time.
View ArticleS.B.A. Administrator Responds
Karen Mills talks about what the S.B.A. is doing to provide working capital to small businesses.
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