If you’re someone who wants to support local entrepreneurs, then now is the time to get involved online by joining an equity crowdfunding platform. Here's why:
In a world filled with hubris and ego-maniacs, it is the humble leader that has the greatest influence. Read on to discover the true meaning of humility and why it's so important to building a great organization.
Social entrepreneurs have fewer potential sources of capital to tap into, and managing cash flow can ironically be more important for survival for social ventures than for profit maximizing businesses.
The intention of this series of posts is to share the story of the beginning and ending of a business. This post focuses on funding-hard or soft money and scaling-big bang or step-by-step.
Commentators around the world see the growing gap in incomes of the richest and poorest as a destabilizing force with the potential to cause massive political and social upheaval. What I don’t see, however, are impact investors talking about one of the most critical issues facing us as a global society: income inequality.
The average investor has seen thousands of pitches, which means that her goal isn’t to watch a unique performance—it’s to quickly separate the wheat from the chaff. If your pitch does these four things, I promise—you will get a follow-up meeting, and you’ll probably get an offer to invest.
A Wikipedia search for Bitcoins would leave most of the general public scratching their heads. Some serious PR work needs to be done if shop keepers and the general public are to embrace such an idea, and let’s face it, they’ll have to in order for it to succeed.
Having created a community bank providing $5.66 billion to 64,140 families nationwide, Daryn knows about social impact. Now he is one of the most prominent impact investors. Learn investment tips from the pro.
Have you ever wanted to know how to make a great impression in front of investors? How do you run a board meeting? Should you put your investors on your team mailing lists? How much transparency it too much when it comes to investors?
'Tis the season for a particularly tax-advantaged window for startups, but the deadline for these advantages looms near. You should consider taking advantage of the current exclusion from capital gains taxes before it expires.
There is a false choice often being made between high impact and high returns. We can have both. In fact, we must achieve both to achieve scale and unlock the greatest wealth creation opportunity of our time. It just so happens to be a 10 Trillion dollar market!
Wes Selke, founding director of HUB Ventures, really digs bringing innovation to life. Here, he shares the best ways to get investor attention (and the best way to lose it), why passion is essential and specific resources to help you develop a strong startup team.
The SEC finally issued their proposal for the JOBS Act including the long awaited "non-accredited crowdfunding" component, Chance Barnett breaks it down for us.
If as a startup, you hire professionals to help create your brand, not only have you wasted valuable money, but you have settled, ipso facto, on creating a mediocre brand.