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Business is good for pawn shops these days and not just the ones featured on reality television. In today's unforgiving credit climate, there are fewer and fewer ways for firms to raise ready cash. In lieu of a more fluid credit situation, small-business owners are turning to pawn shops to borrow[...]
Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a four-part series analyzing the outlook for small businesses in the year ahead. Read the first installment here. The credit crunch for small businesses is expected to ease this year, but entrepreneurs may still need to be creative in their search for financing. "The lending[...]
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Raising capital for a startup venture during these difficult economic times has been a major obstacle for many aspiring entrepreneurs. But it's not impossible. There are several steps budding business owners can take to get in front of prospective investors and to help make sure they pony over[...]
Pitching venture-capital investors to launch or grow your business is a delicate process, so you need to tread carefully. There's an art to making a successful pitch, says Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box, an online content-sharing company based in Palo Alto, Calif. He has raised $162 million in five rounds of funding and[...]
The government has selected a clean-technology investment company as its first partner in an effort to support innovation and job growth in areas deemed "critical" and a "national priority" like low-income regions, clean energy and education. And Citi has stepped in as the lead private investor in the deal. The[...]
More than 700 leaders of top entrepreneurial companies around the U.S. -- from the likes of Apple, Yahoo and Yelp -- signed a letter that was sent to U.S. Senate leaders today encouraging them to pass legislation that would make it easier for startups go public. "During the past decade,[...]
A federal program that had the potential to extend $4 billion in credit to small-business and community-development lenders has been reduced by half. The program's fate underscores how difficult it can be for the government to get much-needed capital to entrepreneurs. The CDFI Bond Guarantee program, signed into law through[...]
The nation's small businesses have struggled to get anybody to loan them money since the Great Recession started. Meanwhile, banks and credit unions have been fighting over who deserves the right to make small business loans to them. And as the JOBS Act works its way through Congress, that battle has grown fiercer. Credit[...]
The law that President Obama is set to sign this week is expected to unleash a wave of crowdfunding. That promises to give some startups access to capital they wouldn't have had otherwise, but it could set up unwary entrepreneurs for a headache. Crowdfunding is a way of raising capital that involves getting[...]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has the delicate task of writing guidelines for the next generation of crowdfunding, so that investors are protected and yet preserving its benefits to companies seeking to raise money. Crowdfunding has been mostly restricted to artists and business owners accepting small donations in exchange for things like[...]
Mari Alstin knew the $10,000 she had in savings and credit wouldn't be enough to open her women's clothing boutique. To cover the cost of rent, a security deposit, displays and inventory, she needed an additional $15,000--fast. Waiting on a bank loan was out of the question, and her credit[...]
Thanks to the JOBS Act signed into law in April, startup founders soon will be able to tap average Joes and Janes for equity-based investments. To help the process along, a new crop of crowdfunding companies has already sprung up. In April, industry resource Crowdsourcing.org predicted the world would have 536 crowdfunding companies[...]
