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