Archive for the “Financing” Category

10 Reasons to Bootstrap Your Business

By Devesh Dwivedi

Posted Under: Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financing on 5 Mar, 2012
Getting your startup off the ground takes cash. There are a number of ways to raise funding for your business, but with every investment dollar you accept you sell a piece of the startup’s soul. You want to be able to focus on building a great product, not on balancing the ideas and priorities of a pool of investors....

Interview with Sramana Mitra – Entrepreneur, Forbes Columnist, Strategy Consultant, and Author

By Devesh Dwivedi

Posted Under: Capital, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Financing, Slide Show, Startup on 9 Aug, 2009
This week, I spoke to Sramana Mitra, who is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has founded three companies and writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy. She has a Master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. Sramana is also a columnist for Forbes and Author of Entrepreneur Journeys series. Find her full Bio at Sramana’s Bio ...

Talking of money… SBA Loans

By devesh

Posted Under: Business, Capital, Financing, Small Business, Startup on 30 Jul, 2009
SBA provides a number of financial assistance programs for small businesses including 7(a), 504 and disaster assistance loans but understanding these programs, their benefits and requirements can be very overwhelming… This write up is an attempt to develop a summary review of SBA’s loan programs. ...

Google Ventures

By devesh

Posted Under: Announcement, Capital, Financing, Small Business, Startup on 2 Apr, 2009
Good News!!! Google has launched its much awaited venture fund to start directly investing in startups instead of just flat out buying them. The concept is brand new and hence nothing can be said about it yet however, here’s what Google says about it:...