Financing a Small Business

Money Supply

By Inc. staff | Aug 1, 1990

Chart showing where small companies expect cash to come from in the 90s. Read more

Consumer Finance

By Ellyn E. Spragins | Jul 1, 1990

Using loyal customers as a source of funding for product development. Read more

Honey, I Shrunk the Company

By Jill Andresky Fraser | Jun 1, 1990

What to do when your company has overexpanded. Read more

The Dark Side

By Joshua Hyatt | May 1, 1990

Some common fears of private companies who go public. Read more

How To: Use Technology to Manage People

By Steve Solomon | May 1, 1990

CEO tells how to keep in close contact with your employees by using technology. Read more

Purse Strings

By Leslie Brokaw | Mar 1, 1990

Woman starts the first venture capital fund designed to help women-run companies. Read more

Risky Business

By Robert A. Mamis | Mar 1, 1990

A venture capitalist discusses marketplace trends and the venture capital business. Read more

Buying a Business

By Hendrix F.C. Niemann | Feb 1, 1990

The firsthand account of one man's search for and subsequent purchase of a company. Read more

How to Deal with Your Bankers

By Paul B. Brown | Feb 1, 1990

Advice on how to charm a bank, securing a line of credit for a small business, choosing a loan officer, and determining whether a bank is solvent. Read more

Employer Financing

By Joshua Hyatt | Jan 1, 1990

Woman creates her own start-up with spinoff technology from her employer and gets pay-as-you-go financing deal. Read more

Adventure Capital

By Inc. staff | Jan 1, 1990

Survey of 473 investors asking what motivates them toward financing start-ups. Read more

Update: Oualie Ltd.

By Leslie Brokaw | Jan 1, 1990

An update on Octavia Randolph, who still seeks investors for her start-up food company. Read more

Plans to Grow By

By Jill Andresky Fraser | Jan 1, 1990

Manufacturer insists that planning doesn't have to involve pie charts, equations, etc. Read more

Banking: The Line Of Credit

By Inc. staff | Jan 1, 1990

Chart: Survey of companies citing the most frequent reasons given for being turned down for credit. Read more

Finance 1989: The Year of Easier Money

By Inc. staff | Dec 1, 1989

Survey: Did manufacturers find it easier or harder getting financing this year compared with last? Read more

Strapped for Expansion Cash?

By Ellyn E. Spragins | Dec 1, 1989

Some financiers combine venture capital methods with those used in LBOs to provide money for business expansion. Read more

Shelling Out

By Ellyn E. Spragins | Nov 1, 1989

A public company creates high-quality shells and merges them with other young companies. Read more

Going Public

By Inc. staff | Nov 1, 1989

Survey of 23 CEOs and 46 CFOs: What's the most challenging aspect of going public? Read more

Back-Door IPOs

By Ellyn E. Spragins | Sep 1, 1989

How to go public by merging with a shell company. Read more

Venturespeak

By Inc. staff | Aug 1, 1989

Some humorous phrases that venture capitalists use to describe their portfolio companies. Read more

On-Line Debt

By Leslie Brokaw | Aug 1, 1989

New company plans to link institutional investors direct to bond auctions via computer modem. Read more

Rewriting The Book On Entreprenuership

By Joshua Hyatt | Aug 1, 1989

A former professor of business starts his own company and learns some new things about "real life" entrepreneurship. Read more

Look Ma--No Bankers

By Ellyn E. Spragins | Aug 1, 1989

Manufacturer of candy boxes learns why banks take a dim of limited partnerships. Read more

Money In The Bank

By Leslie Brokaw | Jul 1, 1989

Micrografix founders discovered investment bankers more than willing to buy into their software company. Read more

Under Siege

By Edward O. Welles | Jul 1, 1989

One CEO's battle to save his small public company from a hostile takeover. Read more