Financing a Small Business


Recent Financing a Small Business Articles

Guaranteed Investment Contracts

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1991

Information on investing in guaranteed investment contracts.  Read more

Weathering the Recession

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1991

Sources for advice on recession-proofing your business.  Read more

Stalking Seed Capital

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jun 1, 1991

Resources providing information on the seed-capital industry.  Read more

Maximizing Dividends and Deductions

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1991

Managing a company's working capital to achieve both safety and investment growth.  Read more

Secondary Stock Deals

By Bruce G. Posner |  May 1, 1991

A venture capitalist invests in secondary deals.  Read more

A Guide to Financial Instruments

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1991

Information on Coopers Lybrand's Guide to Financial Instruments.  Read more

On Target

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1991

Accurately forecasting a company's finances to enhance growth and to remain focused on goals.  Read more

Network: March 1991

By Inc. staff |  Mar 1, 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Network: March 1991

By Inc. staff |  Mar 1, 1991

Network resources.  Read more

Waste Not, Want Not

By George Gendron |  Mar 1, 1991

Interview with an entrepreneur who has built a quality company around a passion for operating without waste.  Read more

Blood, Sweat, Tears

By Inc. staff |  Mar 1, 1991

Chart illustrating a survey on financing the growth of companies.  Read more

Venture Capital in the 1990s

By Robert A. Mamis |  Feb 1, 1991

Interview with six prominent venture capitalists on the industry's future.  Read more

Heaven Sent

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Feb 1, 1991

Using angels as a source of start-up capital.  Read more

Helpmate

By Leslie Brokaw |  Jan 1, 1991

Apple Computer funds start-up and gives itself nonexclusive license to manufacture the new company's technology.  Read more

Notebook

By Leslie Brokaw |  Jan 1, 1991

Statistics on fraudulent environmental claims, sources of capital and companies started with family members.  Read more

Grown in Montana

By Jay Finegan |  Jan 1, 1991

Profile of a bootstrapped start-up nursery.  Read more

Capital

By Inc. staff |  Jan 1, 1991

Chart depicting start-up capital requirements.  Read more

Devil Or Angel?

By Elizabeth Conlin |  Nov 1, 1990

Digital-camera start-up is offered capital from Panamanian investors with rumored ties to the deposed regime.  Read more

Venture Capital Express

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Nov 1, 1990

How to write a business plan that will get you in the door.  Read more

Holdup or Holdout

By Elizabeth Conlin |  Oct 1, 1990

Louisiana State penitentiary inmates produce an award-winning publication.  Read more

Try Harder, Part II: FilmStar Inc.'s Surprise Ending

By Leslie Brokaw |  Oct 1, 1990

Filmstar Inc. set out to change the market for independent-film financing and distribution. All didn't go as planned.  Read more

The Gang's All Here

By Inc. staff |  Oct 1, 1990

Company president meets yearly with advisers to plan for the future.  Read more

Who Needs Wall Street?

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Oct 1, 1990

The ingredients of a do-it-yourself IPO.  Read more

Going for Broke

By Inc. staff |  Sep 1, 1990

Interview with five bootstrappers on the trials of having had too little money to start their businesses.  Read more

What Is Your Greatest Financial Obstacle?

By Inc. staff |  Sep 1, 1990

Chart depicting financial obstacles.  Read more