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How to Find Startup Funds For Your BGusiness

You have to start with funds of your own, your family, your friends. Does anyone of them have cash-flow coming? Mortgage and other similar notes can be cashed in, fastest directly on-line.

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So you have a new business, your very own business. But you need startup funds. First, you have to consider your savings. If you have business partners (even initial stockholders if incorporated), they need to supply some or most of their own savings. Next, you have to involve all the relatives, yours and your partners.

How do you allocate the shares (or portions of the business)? Those actually involved in the business obtain a certain portion as "sweat equity". If someone supplies space, tools and equipment, these items have an established value which the supplier obtains in shares. Cash is also exchanged for shares. But you can not simply allocate shares, you have to consider percentage of the business and make "sweat equity" a significant amount. Be sure that "issued shares" remain substantially below "authorized shares" (you want to be sure that you have new shares available for later stage fund suppliers).

You may still need to sell more shares (may be a requirement of the SBA [Small Business Administration]). Next you use assets which are not normally recognized as sources of cash. I am referring to private mortgages which you or one of your relatives of friends own. Actually, any cash flow instruments may be used, you cash them in on the private market. You are now able to enter all data on the private market via the Internet and speed up the conversion, see website http://cash4yourNotesNow.com Be sure that your note holder obtains the cash-equivalent amount in shares. Be aware that you may need to look for a distant relative or a friend of your past.

Be flexible. Not all contributors may want shares. Some may only want to loan you the money. But your main source for loans is the SBA, see http://www.sba.gov for more details. They offer several loan programs. You may also want to find a mentor via the SBA. They have a mentor program and will connect you to an experienced business person. It will not cost you anything, as long as he/she is only advising you. But you are often able to acquire the mentor for your team (for some kind of remuneration).

When you desire serious money from the SBA, you will have no choice but to prepare a Business Plan. Such a plan is basically a "prescription" on how to develop your business step by step, considering first the need, then how this need will be met by your business. Production, marketing and
administration need also to be considered. And there are several pages of financials, including projections over several years. In preparing such a plan, you should involve yourself as much as possible, starting with a book on writing such plans. You can also go outside to have such a plan written for a fee. Or you go to buy software which will assist you in writing a Business Plan. If you have partners, they should all be involved in the effort of writing the Business Plan.

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Since 1990 author wrote and published newsletter
on evaluating business opportunities. Moved newsletter
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How to Find Startup Funds For Your BGusiness