Financing a Small Business


Recent Financing a Small Business Articles

Seed Capital: From Patent to Product

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jan 1, 1996

A business owner explains how he found more than capital when he received seed money.  Read more

Cash Management: Building Cash for Your ESOP

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1995

An ESOP consultant discusses a strategy to make the most out of cash set aside to cover the stocks.  Read more

Anatomy of a Financing: A Pitch for Private Equity

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1995

A private-equity expert explains the difference between private equity and venture capital.  Read more

Bootstrapping Tactics: A Bootstrapper's Primer

By Jay Finegan |  Aug 1, 1995

Successful entrepreneurs of every stripe offer readers tips and hints on a wide range of topics.  Read more

Benchmark: The Venture-Capital Difference

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1995

Three graphs display averages that suggest venture capital helps companies in ways not originally expected.  Read more

Public Offerings: On the Cheap

By Robert A. Mamis |  Aug 1, 1995

The difference between a "Form 10" offering and an IPO are discussed by an investment banker.  Read more

Hot Tip: Start Selling Now

By Jay Finegan |  Aug 1, 1995

As a student at Hobart College, in upstate New York, Ian Leopold envisioned an unofficial student guide to the Hobart experience, loaded with practical in...  Read more

Benchmark: Venture-Capital Trends

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1995

A graph displaying what percent of venture capital was spent on various industries in 1994.  Read more

Do Due Diligence, Too

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1995

A CEO brings in an outside investor whose ideas about running a business clash with his.  Read more

Problem-Free Shareholder Loans

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

Advice on how to borrow money from your own company.  Read more

New Warrants Please Investors

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1995

Explanation of why warrants are attractive to a company's investors.  Read more

Where Cash Actually Comes From

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1995

Chart illustrating where small businesses get their financing.  Read more

Anatomy of a Financing: The Benefits of Convertible Debt

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

A CEO explains how using convertible debentures was a good deal for his company and his investors.  Read more

Going Public: It Pays to Be Flexible

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

A comic-book publisher explains how he brought his cash-strapped company through an IPO.  Read more

Anatomy of a Deal: Finance Growth with Debt

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jan 1, 1995

The chairman of a factor firm explains how his company uses the private-placement financing market to raise capital.  Read more

Three Steps to Borrowing from Family or Friends

Jan 1, 1995

Keeping the relationship professional is the key to successful borrowing from close acquaintances.  Read more

Don't Misread Potential Investors

Jan 1, 1995

Sometimes the people you think are shoe-ins as investors don't come through,and sometimes the people you think would never invest sign on with little effo...  Read more

Reacquiring Your Equity

Jan 1, 1995

One of the worst mistakes Bart Breighner believes he's made since founding Artistic Impressions, an artretailer, in Lombard, Ill., was undervaluing the st...  Read more

Selling Temporary Equity

Jan 1, 1995

Patrick Lammert and Mark Weber were 25 years old when they decided to start a business in an industrythey both knew--color separation. They had scraped to...  Read more

IPO Tax Risks

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1994

A lawyer explains that S corporations face complicated tax risks and how their shareholder can avoid some of risks.  Read more

Metering Cash

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1994

A financial consultant quickly details an effective accounts-payable system that achieves good cash-flow control.  Read more

Banking: The One-Page Credit Form

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Oct 1, 1994

A short article about a bank's attempt to streamline its loan application process in order to reach small business.  Read more

Then and Now

By David Whitford |  Sep 1, 1994

This article looks at how individual bootstrappers have changed business practices as their companies have grown.  Read more

Bootstrapping for Billions

By Edward O. Welles |  Sep 1, 1994

Two multi-billion dollar companies are compared to see why the term "bootstrapper" stiil applies to these businesses.  Read more

Resource: No-Tears Estate Planning

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Sep 1, 1994

A quick review of R.H. Runde J.B. Zischang book 'The Commonsense Guide to Estate Planning,' and how to buy it.  Read more

Start-Up Funding: Consider the Sources

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Aug 1, 1994

Chart showing primary sources of start-up capital.  Read more

Grilling Potential Buyers

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1994

Techniques one CEO used to get the best deal when he sold his company.  Read more

A Mix-and-Match Money Menu

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1994

Pros and cons of differenty types of private placements.  Read more

A Private Placement to Die For

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1994

How one company successfully pursued a private placement.  Read more

What Pension Funds Want

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1994

What institutional investors look for when they are considering investments in growing companies.  Read more

Credit Loosens (for Now)

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1994

Chart showing what types of companies were able to increase their credit availability in 1993.  Read more

One Billion Dollars in Start-up Capital

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Jul 1, 1994

Highlights from a venture-capital-industry research firm's 1993 data.  Read more

Fear of Factoring

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1994

One company's struggles with factors.  Read more

Fighting Back on Property Taxes

By Inc. staff |  Jul 1, 1994

Chart showing percentage of businesses that challenged their property-tax assessments and their success at it.  Read more

Watch Those VCs Smile

By Inc. staff |  Jun 1, 1994

The top 10 venture capital firms of 1993.  Read more