Financing
Amway of the Rich
Twitter It!Today I spoke with a friend that told me he just see an entrepreneur we met 5 years ago. This entrepreneur was beginning a company to custom-made dress shirts for the wealthy executives.
So the business idea was to send nice looking girls to visit wealthy individuals to their offices and sell them custom-made dress [...]
Seven Investors To Avoid
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Martin Zwilling, 12.08.09, 5:04 PM ET
In a tough economy, all capital is created equal, right?
Wrong. Even in a credit-starved environment like this one, the source of your money matters. A lot.
When it comes to courting angel investors–well-heeled individuals looking to put some of their stash [...]
Raising Capital: Equity vs. Debt
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The banks generally still aren’t playing ball, but there are creative solutions allowing small companies to win financing
By Jill Hamburg Coplan
In November 2008, Donn Flipse was forced to close one of his three flower superstores in Florida’s Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Nine months later, Flipse expanded by acquiring the [...]
Plumbing for Joy? Be Your Own Boss
Twitter It!By: SUE SHELLENBARGER/The Wall Street Journal
By economic yardsticks, Roger the Plumber should be feeling pretty low. Roger Peugeot, owner of the 14-employee Overland Park, Kan., plumbing company that bears his name, is part of a sector hit hard by shrunken credit and slumping sales. He has been forced to reduce staff and is battling [...]
Local Entrepreneur Hailed as 88th Fastest Growing IT Company in US
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Medford, N.J. — Local computer expert Anthony Mongeluzo’s company grew 414.8 percent in the last three years even after the start of one of the worst recessions on record, making it the 88th fastest growing IT company in the United States, Inc. magazine announced.
Pro Computer Service (www.procomputerservice.com), which provides both onsite [...]