Personal Savings, Retirement Accounts, Friends & Family, Personal Loan, Credit Cards, Grants, Bank Loan, Angels, Crowd-Funding, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe, Funding Contest, Peer-to-Peer Lending, MicroLoan, Kiva, Accion, Credit, PreSales, PayPal Loan, Final Thoughts When launching a business, the essential components of your success are the innovativeness of your Ideas and your willingness …
“Chase you Vision, not the money; the $$$ will end up finding you.” –Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO After being involved with dozens of Startups (mine, friends’, and clients’), I heartily agree with Tony. Starting your own business to get rich is backward thinking. Put yourself behind a product or service …
“While we don’t know when it’ll come, eventually the Pandemic will end and you need to be prepared. Here’s where to start”. TOPICS: A. SBA Loans to Help you right now. B. 10 Steps to Begin the Post-Pandemic re-building Process: 10 STEPS: 1. Secure the necessary Capital to re-build, 2. …
“One of the best ways to attract capital is to out perform the competition.” “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” “If you have a product/service that is so impressive that it captures the heart of the Investor, they will gladly give you all the $$$ you need.” “Bootstrap for …
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“If you’re really motivated about starting a biz, you will check possibilities of Funding here and not give up until you find the one that suits you the best”. Peter, Wiz4.biz 10 Funding Topics: Fam & Fr, Crowd, Accelerators & Incubators (the other AI), Launch Platforms (for Rockets & . …
“Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content, enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem.” — Laura Fitton – Founder of Twitter app store. Marketing Topics: Startup ideas & innovations & Trends, Product Hunt, Hacker News, Launching Next, Test Launching, Feedback, Biz Intelligence …
“What do you need to start a Business and suceed? Five things: have a product people want, get the word out (so people know about it), have funding to survive, until you start making a profit & the persistence to hang in there – until all this happens” – Peter/CXO …
“Don’t look to invest too much time or your hard-earned $$$ on your Idea before making sure it’s a good “valid” Idea for a Startup”. Peter/CXO Wiz4.biz Startup Topics: Brain-Storming, Evaluation, Research, Presentation, Muster, Share, Attack, Life, Test, Pricing. Intro: A Startup can only succeed if it has a good …
“Most Investing is 80% Emotion (how the Investor feels about you – how you presented) & 20 % Logical (the potential of your Product/ Service & experience of your Team). The best way to get to someone’s emotions is to tell the Story of discovering your Idea and what impact …
“If your company fits one of the niches that has its own CrowdFunding sites, it’s worth considering using a specialized platform”. Wiz4.biz CrowdFunding Topics: Finding Funding, for Women, like an IPO, Equity-only, for Growing, Multi-Tech, Computer Hardware, Research Projects, monthly Membership model, D-I-Y Coders, comparing CrowdFunding sites. When most …
“I start work right away in the morning. I love the challenge of being an Entrepreneur. I have freedom & resources of doing what-ever I want to do when I want to do it.” Lori Greiner, most successful Shark with 6 of 9 top Products. Finding Funding Topics: Who are …
“100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds”, from Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards& Achieving Profitability. Topics for Startups: Publisher’s Website, Book Review, Timing, Financials, Investors, Fund-Raisers, Board of Directors, Profitability, Vision, Summary. In Straight Talk for Startups, Venture capitalist Randy Komisar & Finance executive Jantoon Reigersman …
“Creating a great Value is the most important, but it must be measured by Valuation”. Peter, Wiz4.biz Valuation Topics: Your Idea, Team, Target Market, the Competition, Stage of Development, Strategic Alliances. Valuation of Companies is tricky. The methods used to value a company are dependent on the stage of development …
“Use CrowdFunding, because you want to give everyone the opportunity to be able to participate in funding your idea – that adds “value” to lives and makes a significant contribution to the world” Wiz4.biz CrowdFunding Topics: Leaders in: 1) Funding Campaigns, 2) Capital Commitments, 3) Success Rates & 4) …
“Invest in yourself. Get all the knowledge you can stuff in your brain, because your knowledge and willingness to take a chance, will lead to prosperity. Maybe not the first time, but eventually.” Wiz4.biz Funding Topics: Boot-Strapping, Micro-Loans, Crowd-Funding, Govt (ie, SBA), Incubators & Accelerators, Angels, VCs, Banks, Pre-Sales. …