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Raising money isn’t just about going to venture capitalists or angel investors. In fact, Scott Gerber said during his presentation at the Winning Strategies Conference in Long Beach today that most small businesses don’t need as much capital as they think, and some don’t need capital at all. Still others simply haven’t undergone the proper […]

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We’ve heard a lot of talk in recent years about American students being unprepared for the work force post academia. Do we need to reform the American school system to ensure that our students have what it takes to work in today’s evolving economy? According to Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel, authors of 21st Century […]

Experts say money may be coming back to the market but not at pre-downturn levels.

Looks like the theme for the day is demystifying business processes. In our first breakout session, Asheesh Advani delivered six lessons for how to raise money now. Lesson #1: People who invest more than $25,000 are impatient.A patient investor is much better than an impatient investor. You want patient investors because they’ll allow you time […]

That’s what Jay Conrad Levison said in his keynote address at this year’s Growth 2.0 Conference this morning. In fact, he says that for small businesses, traditional marketing is the least effective form of marketing. It’s too expensive, linear, selfish and detached. Instead, Levinson says that small businesses take advantage of the differences between guerrilla […]

The internet is littered with online collaboration tools that do everything from facilitating virtual meetings like Protosphere to full-on real time document creation and editing like Google Wave. To wit, Verizon recently launched its own small business-targeted collaboration tool called the Verizon Collaboration Center. “Small businesses need a lot more than e-mail and internet access […]

Most of us believe there’s no way to prepare for Murphy’s Law but wouldn’t it be nice if you could? Enter The Worst-Case Scenario Business Survival Guide, a guide for surviving the most dangerous business situations. This isn’t some thick theory heavy business text. Instead, the authors David Borgenicht and Mark Joyner have teamed up […]

These fearless kid entrepreneurs took big risks and reaped big rewards.