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Easy Offline Cash Make Huge Piles of Cash Helping Local Businesses
May 12th
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Helping Women Entrepreneurs Get Angel Capital
Apr 20th
The relative difficulty that women entrepreneurs have in finding financing for their businesses has long been a topic of concern. Now a new project is aiming to improve women’s access to capital by mentoring and training women to become angel investors and eventually fund other women’s companies.
Pipeline Fund, a social venture fund founded by Natalia Oberti Noguera that invests in women-led for-profit social ventures, recently launched its Pipeline Fund Fellowship, the New York Times reports. The Pipeline Fund Fellowship will train women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentorship and practice.
The 10 women fellows will learn about due diligence, term sheets, valuations, board governance, and other aspects of evaluating a company for investment. They will each be matched with an experienced angel investor, including both men and women, to serve as a role model. Finally, they’ll apply what they learn to real life; at the end of the program, the entire group will select a women-owned social venture to receive a $50,000 investment.
Oberti Noguera, whose website describes her as dedicated to improving the visibility of female changemakers in the media, told the Times she launched the Fellowship to improve funding options for women and help address the lack of women in venture capital.
The 10 fellows (you can view the full list at the Pipeline website) come from a diverse range of industries. Each fellow pays $1,000 for the program and also commits to investing $5,000 toward the overall $50,000 investment in the chosen startup.
I think the low amount of capital needed to participate in the fellowship is one of its best features since it opens the program to women who might not otherwise participate. As women, too often we achieve success in business without fully understanding the details of finances. We leave it to someone else, or we’re shy about asking how certain elements of financing really work for fear of admitting our ignorance. And for many women, talking about money openly just “isn’t done.” (One fellow interviewed by the Times noted that, although women business owners often network and seek advice from each other, the one area they are still reluctant to discuss with each other is financing, raising capital and investing.)
Getting more women involved in angel capital can only be a good thing. One of the benefits of obtaining an angel investor is not just the money, but the experience and mentorship an angel can bring to your business. Angels typically have some experience in the industries they invest in, so their advice and guidance can be especially meaningful to an entrepreneur. If your angel is a woman who’s been through the same kinds of startup and growth challenges you have, so much the better. Angels who can relate to the women heading companies they invest in will be uniquely poised to help them grow.
Times author Adriana Gardella will be following the progress of the fellows as they go through the program.
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Helping the rejection committee
Nov 3rd
Liz quotes a friend who sold expensive business to business products in Texas, “It’s not a no until they call security!” This salesperson has no intention whatsoever of helping the folks who reject her do the rejecting.
I’m not sure you have to go that far, but I know that many marketers work hard on behalf of the rejection committee. We sabotage our college applications or email pitches or websites, predicting in advance that we’re not going to make it, not good enough, not worthy. So we set out to save them the trouble of having to think hard about the no.
If someone wants to say no, let them. But no need to help them get to no before they get the chance. Let them do their job.
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Social media helping Gilbert officials connect with residents
Sep 18th
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Social media helping people quit smoking : Craig Newmark : City Brights
Sep 4th
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”Facebook helping social media marketing be most sought after”, IBN Live News
Aug 29th
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Small Business News: Who’s Helping Your Business
Jul 21st
Who’s in your small business corner? If your small business has no one to turn to, how can you work to improve your company’s opportunities on your own? Unfortunately much promised help for small business has not materialized and new regulation on the horizon will only make it harder for your business to expand. Fortunately, there are plenty of tools, tips, other business people and communities who can help your small business thrive. We’re dedicated to providing you with the answers you need in the daily small business news roundup from Small Business Trends and hope you’ll find it useful today.
Policy
What’s small business’s beef with Obama? Political blogger Joel Kotkin argues it’s not the business elite on Wall Street, angry Tea Party mobilizers or right wing pundits the Obama administration and a Democratic legislative majority need to be concerned about. It’s small business owners and mom and pop companies who might have led the nation out of recession. Business Insider
So, what has Washington really done for small business? Though the White House is blaming political opponents for holding up any legislation in support of small business recovery, a watchdog group says that’s just not the case. Whether you believe government funding for small business loans are the answer or not, the policy does not seem to be high on the agenda. FactCheck.org
Government financial aid falling flat. Efforts to aid small business financing don’t seem to be working, at least based on a report by a Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Despite multiple initiatives in an effort to jump start credit availability, there’s little proof any of these efforts have been effective. Small Business Trends
Finance
More from the report on small business aid. The Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program has published a full report on multiple efforts to revive small business financing and its effectiveness or lack there of. Read the complete document with all the details at the link above. Congressional Oversight Panel
Why bank loans aren’t the key to small business recovery. If you’ve done nothing but pay attention to traditional media for the last couple of months, you might be under the impression that lack of adequate loans are the only thing holding back small businesses and economic recovery. Want to hear the other side of the story? CNNMoney.com
Trends
Small business hiring still not returning. Small business hiring hasn’t returned as fast as some might have hoped. Anita Campbell takes a look at this troubling trend and how it bodes in an atmosphere in which small businesses are being looked to as the key to job creation in the depths of recession. Fortunately, there is a bright spot. Read the full article. Open Forum Innovation
Marketing
The trouble with word of mouth. Everyone knows word of mouth marketing is important to small business. But what makes good word of mouth…or worse yet bad word of mouth? Yikes! The real secret to getting the word of mouth you want, of course, is to be careful what you promise. Seth Godin’s Blog
Sharing small business news as marketing strategy. Sharing small business news, information and tips can be more than simply helpful. If done through your favorite social media network, there can be a great benefit to sharing not only the content from your own blog but articles, resources and blogs from others. Check out the post and a video from Bloggertone contributor Greg Fry. BizSugar Blog
Ideas
What do you look for in a business idea? Ideas can be simple and still be successful. Look at Matt Moman and his lime bottle opener. The product caught the attention of a larger licensing partner in Corona beer. How does Matt’s idea inspire you with the importance of a simple yet powerful concept that marries branding and marketing to perfection? Open Forum Innovation
Startups
Small business startups are declining. A global outplacement and executive coaching firm says its survey of job seekers shows more people seeking employment over entrepreneurship in the first half of 2010. A still feeble economy and poor small business optimism index are partly blamed. Do these numbers impact your outlook for your small business plans? WSJ
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Social media helping erase stigma of mental illnesses
Jul 5th
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How Social Media is Helping Veterans Connect
Jun 25th
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It’s Official – I’m Helping Write a WordPress ‘Dummies’ Book
Jun 19th
My good friend Lisa Sabin-Wilson, author of WordPress for Dummies (where iThemes, my company, is mentioned), myself, and three others of us will be writing a 900-plus-page book called WordPress All-in-One Desk Reference.
Actually … we’ve been writing on it for two months now. It’s been hard work but also a blast. And by being a part of this book, I’ll be living out a childhood dream.
Stay tuned! The book is scheduled to be published in early spring 2011.
Read more about the project on Lisa’s site here.
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