Financing a Small Business


Recent Financing a Small Business Articles

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

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