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    Ways to Finance a Home-Based Business

    Before starting a home-based business or a small startup, you must have sufficient capital on hand to purchase anything essential you need to start offering your products or services to the consumers. Things like physical office location, necessary equipment, business website, and other office supplies are the basic business overheads that a business needs to pay on a regular basis in order to streamline business processes and operations. Home-based businesses usually have fewer financing choices because most don’t have enough to qualify for a loan from the bank. Fortunately, there is a variety of small business financing options out there that small startups and home-based businesses can assume to meet…

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    How to Write a Business Plan that Secures Funding

    Simply having a great business idea is not enough, one needs strong capital support from investors in order to make their idea a reality. The best way to acquire funds is to lay out a good business plan as financiers require a solid plan to evaluate an investment opportunity. Through a business plan, you can communicate your new business idea’s potential to investors in a logical and convincing manner. Writing an effective business plan may seem like a tedious task but it is critical in helping potential investors assess the business risks before investing in the company. When working towards building a workable business plan, ensure that it clearly and…

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    Sharks Tanked: Alternatives As Tech Startup Funding Declines

    We’ve all heard of frugal individuals tightening their belts, but venture capitalists cut off circulation to their legs in 2012. Nationwide spending on startups dropped 10 percent in 2012, and the number of total deals dropped 6 percent, according to the quarterly Moneytree Report based on data supplied by Thompson Reuters. North Texas saw one of the most dramatic declines as venture funding dropped 79 percent and total deals fell 18 percent from 2011. The anti-climactic IPO of Facebook was one of the primary culprits in venture capitalists shying away from tech startups. But there is still plenty of money to be had out there and here we provide some…