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11 Small Business Grants and Loans to Apply For in 2024

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Create a membership here Deadline: Applications are reviewed quarterly 3. Female entrepreneurs can apply anytime by telling their story, however, details about your company, industry, and market will help your case seem more competitive. Since 2006, NASE has handed out almost $1,000,000 through the program. Learn more and apply here 3.

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20 Best Free and Paid Tools for Startups in 2023

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Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. While Hide.me From its 4.3-inch

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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018?

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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

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While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? 2023 hasn't been an easy year to be a startup.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

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I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

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My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. Apply for contests and business grants.

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10 Entrepreneur Alternatives To Investor Funding

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My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. Apply for contests and business grants. Marty Zwilling.