Interested in opening a small business or franchise? How much do you know about your funding options? Take our quiz and find out! 1. What is typically not a funding option available to you to start a business? SBA loan Investing your retirement funds Traditional...
Interested in opening a small business or franchise? How much do you know about your funding options? Take our quiz and find out! 1. What is typically not a funding option available to you to start a business? SBA loan Investing your retirement funds Traditional...
When it comes to starting a business, entrepreneurs have a lot of questions that need an expert’s advice. They may know a lot about their product or service, but the legal and funding side of a business can get complicated – very quickly. In the current...
When starting a new business, new owners are faced with so many decisions to make that they sometimes suffer from what I like to call decision fatigue. Whether it’s funding options, location selection and build out, merchant services, payroll processing,...
In a recent article by Julie Halpert, Special to CNBC.com, she highlights the boom in senior franchise owners. Older Americans are becoming a fast-growing segment of those buying franchises. The percentage of people 55 and over who are franchise owners has risen...
Do existing businesses have more financing alternatives than start-ups? The lenders are very conscious of just how difficult the past few years have been for businesses. A business that has a good track record through difficult years makes a good impression on the...
Crowdfunding has been a growing buzzword among entrepreneurs for several years. In fact, platforms like Kickstarter continue to gain media attention — especially with recent successes such as the Reading Rainbow campaign that quickly went viral. With all the hype...