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Commercial Second Mortgage By Jeff Rauth

Commercial second mortgages have historically been a very rare financing tool reserved for extremely strong borrowers, divided into two general segments.

1. Owner occupant property owners with outstanding business finances.
2. Large sophisticated commercial real estate developments with minimum loan amounts beginning at $5 million. Typical project size would be $15 million plus.

Venture Leasing: Startup Financing On The Rise By George Parker

According to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, investment by institutional venture capitalists in startups grew from less than $3.0 billion at the beginning of the 1990’s to over $106 billion in 2000. Although venture capital volume has retreated significantly since the economic “bubble” years of the late 1990’s, the present volume of around $ 19 billion per year still represents a substantial rate of growth. Venture capitalists will fund more than 2,500 high growth startups in the U.S. this year.

The growth in venture capital investing has given rise to a relatively new and expanding area of equipment leasing known as ‘venture leasing’. Exactly what is venture leasing and what has fueled its growth since the early 1990’s? Why has venture leasing become so attractive to venture capital-backed startups? To find answers, one must look at several important developments that have bolstered the growth of this important equipment leasing segment.

How Not To Raise Traditional Capital… How To Raise “Guerilla” Capital By John Vinturella

We have compiled a list of some practices which seem sure to kill your chances to attract investors. Ignore these lessons at your peril.

How To Plan For Raising Capital With Investors? by Roxie D. Thomas

In planning for a successful funding campaign, you must expose your investment opportunity to enough investors.

The Kugarand Theory of Investing states that for every …

How To Finance Your Small Business Start Up by Robert Warlow

It all starts with a great idea, an idea that has probably been in your mind for a long time. You have the product sorted out, how you are going to deliver your service, where you are going to set up your office and how you are going to market your new business. But the stumbling block always seems to be the finance to get you going.

How To Use Three Bootstrap Financing Techniques to Get Your New Business Up and Running Now! By Rob Mead

Bootstrap financing is one of the greatest and least expensive routes an entrepreneur can explore when raising capital. It utilizes unused opportunities that can be found within your own company by simply managing your finances better, and you will not need to rely on anybody else’s help to generate this much-needed cash for your small business.

Receivables Factoring - How To Finance Your Business Using Your Invoices As Collateral by Marco Terry

Obtaining business financing has always been challenging for small and mid size company owners. Traditional sources of financing, such as venture capital companies, angel investors or banks, provide financing that is hard to obtain and usually takes weeks - or months - to set up.

Alternatives To The IPO by James Lowery

A few years ago, it seemed that nearly every company was going public with an IPO to gain capital investment, but now, with this route effectively blocked to smaller companies, entrepreneurs, angel investors and employees are increasingly looking at the opportunity of a reverse merger with a trading shell on the OTC Bulletin Board, the Pink Sheets or Form 10.

Home Equity Lines Of Credit For Starting Your Own Business by Jessica Peterson

The characteristics of home equity lines of credit are perfect for this purpose.

In this article we will analyze the concepts of home equity and home equity lines of credit and explain why these particular lines of credit are perfect tools for starting new businesses and what the benefits that these financial products provide are.