Financing a Small Business


Recent Financing a Small Business Articles

Farming Out Your Financials

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1994

Survey reveals benefits of outsourcing internal corporate functions; how to find the right company for the job.  Read more

How Swap Deals Pay Off

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1994

Bartering allows companies to build revenues while preserving cash flow; info on a list of barter networks.  Read more

The State of Seed Capital

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Mar 1, 1994

Highlights of a study on the characteristics and performance of seed capital funds.  Read more

15 Steps to a Start-up Investors Will Buy

By Edward O. Welles |  Mar 1, 1994

How a start-up positioned itself to appeal to investors and landed $2 million in venture capital.  Read more

Let Them Eat Royalties

By Bruce G. Posner |  Mar 1, 1994

How one company negotiated $100,000 in capital in exchange for royalties based on sales.  Read more

Cavalry? No, Pension Fund

By Bruce G. Posner |  Mar 1, 1994

Commercial lender's pension pool invests exclusively in commercial mortgages.  Read more

How to Peddle Your Company

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  Mar 1, 1994

Techniques one CEO uses successfully to woo investors.  Read more

Estate-Planning Basics

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1994

Brief review of 'Getting Your Affairs in Order,' by Elmo A. Petterle, a basic estate-planning manual.  Read more

Those Nice Folks at the IRS

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1994

Business owners can engineer big tax savings when passing their company's stock, during their lifetime, to their kids.  Read more

A Gathering of Angels

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Feb 1, 1994

A Pennsylvania group tries to match entrepreneurs with private investors.  Read more

Seed Capital: The 12-Step Program

By Robert A. Mamis |  Feb 1, 1994

The secret to funding a start-up, one owner learned, is to tap every capital source you can.  Read more

Present at the Creation

By Inc. staff |  Feb 1, 1994

A look at how a fast-food company's initial investors have fared.  Read more

How to Pick a Factor

By Bruce G. Posner |  Feb 1, 1994

Guidelines for choosing a reputable factor.  Read more

Who Does the Small Deals?

By Bruce G. Posner |  Feb 1, 1994

A list of securities underwriters who manage small public offerings in the $3 million to $8 million range.  Read more

Where Angels Fear to Fund

By Bruce G. Posner |  Feb 1, 1994

A list of characteristics that private investors do not want to see in a prospective investment.  Read more

But Would Popeye Read It?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1994

Review of 'Keeping the Books' (Upstart), a guide to financial paperwork.  Read more

Planning for Life After Work

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1994

Three entrepreneurs discuss their own retirement plans.  Read more

On-Line Pitches to Investors

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jan 1, 1994

A new on-line network links entrepreneurs with investors.  Read more

Life in the 'Fishbowl'

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jan 1, 1994

Author of a book on public offerings discusses the type of information that must be disclosed during a public offering.  Read more

Battlefield Perspectives

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jan 1, 1994

Three executives discuss how entrepreneurial companies view cash management.  Read more

Five Signs of a Snafu

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jan 1, 1994

Five warning signs of poor cash-management systems.  Read more

Beyond Bookkeeper

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jan 1, 1994

Guidelines for determining how and when to upgrade a company's internal financial staff.  Read more

Mind of the Manager: Computer Illiterate

By Kenneth H. Olsen |  Dec 1, 1993

How a simple business plan can be more advantageous than a complex model.  Read more

Seed Capital, Part I: Better Venture Deals

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Dec 1, 1993

New data indicates that the valuations venture capitalists are giving new companies are increasing.  Read more

Seed Capital, Part II: More Microlending

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Dec 1, 1993

Nonprofits organizations are providing microloans through a SBA program geared to qualified entrepreneurs.  Read more

Betting on the Bridge

By Bruce G. Posner |  Dec 1, 1993

Using 'bridge' financing to fund growth.  Read more

New 'Rights' for Old Investors

By Bruce G. Posner |  Dec 1, 1993

A cash-starved company designs a special stock offering for those who funded their early operations.  Read more

On-line Checks on Customers

By Bruce G. Posner |  Dec 1, 1993

Online service lets businesses search public records in 35 states to assess the creditworthiness of customers.  Read more

Tire Kicking for Beginners

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1993

How not to evaluate the possible purchase of a business.  Read more

A Booster for Budgeting

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1993

Brief review of a new budgeting resource, 'Powerful Budgeting for Better Planning Management,' by Robert G. Finney.  Read more

A Taxing Comparison

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1993

A comparison of the amount taxes an S corp. and C corp. with $500,000 in taxable income will have to pay.  Read more

Do S Corporations Still Make Sense?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1993

S corporations provide some important advantages, but new tax rates cause some problems.  Read more

Capital Punishment

By Anne Murphy |  Nov 1, 1993

A look at the problems caused by having too much capital and the benefits of bootstrapping.  Read more

Boot Me Up: 11 Great Companies Launched for Less

By Susan Greco |  Nov 1, 1993

A look at eleven companies and how they were started with very little capital investment.  Read more

Paradise Lost

By Michael P. Cronin |  Nov 1, 1993

How one thriving bootstrapped company is trying to maintain its original identity in a time of rapid growth.  Read more