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Higher tax-brackets. Full email inboxes. Less personal time. Missing Seinfeld reruns. With all of these negatives, what fool would even consider blogging for business? Read More

A reader asks: “My question is how do we value a company with no sales? I understand it’s an arbitrary valuation but is there anything we can possibly base it on? Is there a “default” valuation for companies in a seed round?” We’ll answer this question with some questions (and answers) of our own. Read More

In this brief clip from a presentation at Stanford University, Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start, gives three good reasons to start a business. (Believe it or not, making money is not one of them!) Read More

Cristian Dorobantescu, a Romanian entrepreneur and blogger, has some interesting takes on business startup from his perspective as a business person operating in Eastern Europe. Here is his reaction, drawing on his own experience, to an article from Entrepreneur.com on how to pitch to investors with a link to the original. Read More

If you run an independent company and are looking for ways to raise capital, consider selling shares to your customers via a private placement. A private placement is a streamlined way to raise capital from a group of investors, whether individuals or companies. There is no need to get approval for a private placement from the Securities & Exch Read More

Ken Gaebler knows that winning investor money is all in the pitch. A serial entrepreneur, Gaebler has raised $24 million for seven companies since 1995. Now, he sits on the other side of the conference-room table, as president of private-equity firm Gaebler Ventures in Chicago — and routinely watches newbie entrepreneurs present their ideas in a b Read More