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Equity-based crowdfunding has huge potential to help startup or small business owners raise capital from lots of supporters. Crowd investing can also validate a business idea and simultaneously build a customer base. Creating a successful campaign, however, requires some savvy, and savvy comes from Read More

If asked if your business has Intellectual Property (IP) and the answer is “I do not know or I doubt it”, you are not alone. Read More

In part two of the series, Mike Shapiro tells it like it is "Raising Money" for a startup. Mike is the owner and CEO of The Alternative Press, an online local news service. Read More

Now that the new year has officially arrived and things have gone back to normal after the holiday break, it’s time to turn our attention to the 2013 tax season. You can start by avoiding these costly mistakes made by countless small business owners and those classified as self-employed. Read More

Dan found what he loved and ran with it. In the three years since striking out on his own with his tree service business, Dan has repayed his parents, qualified for a loan from the local bank to upgrade his truck and equipment and obtained key certification. Read More

There are plenty of things you can do on Twitter to get more tweets.
But what can you do to get more tweets and followers without ever leaving your site? Read More

These two grandmothers went on Shark Tank hoping to raise money to expand their production capabilities. The lesson they took away was more important than the cash! Read More

n 2009, Kevin Haag climbed a steep set of stairs to an ugly industrial room. From the top of these stairs, Kevin looked down and saw possibilities that only an exercise nut that believes in “the basics”—not fancy machines—could see. Read More

Travelling form Alabama, the men from Southeastern Outdoor Services have been hard at work since Storm Sandy hit New Jersey. Listen to what these men have to say and how they work to make their business successful. Read More

Tom Szaky is a 30-year-old successful entrepreneur with a high growth, $15 million business. He, like many, believes that crowdfunding for equity—a new vehicle for raising capital, expected to be available in 2013—will make it substantially easier for small businesses to get off the ground and/or t Read More