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The Next Big Thing is Tiny: Smaller Than A Human Hair: Would you be surprised to learn that the next big thing which is expected to make up 15% of the worlds economy – some $2.6 Trillion will be less than the width of a human hair?
eBay: Business & [...]

What motivated you to write a book about buying a business?
Baby boomers, are just now beginning to seriously consider retirement options as the oldest of them start to turn 59 (as of 2005). For baby boomer business owners’ greatest problem is to figure out a way to retire and extract the equity that has [...]

Truth is you cannot convince any investor, bank or VC to provide financing for any business that is not viable or ill conceived.
Here is my own list of what to do to get the attention of a VC:

Format: At the early stage some VC’s will prefer to see a PowerPoint presentation. Some are accepting [...]

What do VC’s want? It’s been a mystery discussed among entrepreneurs. These are the days of the Internet, you can research people and companies easier than ever before. With a guy like David Beisel all you need to do is read his blog. His latest post is one of a series of ’sevens’ or observations [...]

You know that venture capital scene is hot when the Venture Capitalists are expressing concern if the amount of startup activity around web 2.0 is about to become bubble 2.0. I started reading a new VentureBlog, which has interesting content. I also was connected to a new podcast called VentureWeek, I will post [...]

This is a great question. I recently helped a client deal with this issue. Let me share what we learned.
Raising money from VCs is much different than private investors.

Private money is usually friendly money. They know you and are investing because they trust you.
VCs, on the other hand, are more concerned with [...]