Startup Financing
Angel Investors – Critical Initiators of Startups and Job Creation
How Venture Capital Works - A blog written by Bob Zider on venture capitalists.
Some Basics of Venture Capital
Venture Capital 101 - Learn the basics and more on venture capitalists.
Accounting and Financial Statements - Just keeping track of cash that goes in and out of a business doesn't always reflect what's going on. This tutorial compares cash and accrual accounting. Very valuable if you ever plan on starting or investing in any type of business (you might also discover a nascent passion for accounting)!
Entrepreneurial Finance
Fundraising for Social Entrepreneurs - Learn the basics of fundraising.
Inflation - $1 went a lot further in 1900 than today (you could probably buy a good meal for the family for $1 back then). Why? And how do we measure how much more expensive things have gotten (i.e., inflation)?
Mint - Entrepreneurs can get help with the personal finances, money management and budget planning. Mint offers free financial planning software.
Stocks and Bonds - Many people own stocks, but, unfortunately, most of them don't really understand what they own. This tutorial will keep you from being one of those people (not keep you from owning stock, but keep you from being ignorant about your investments).
Sush.io - Sush.io allows you to automatically send data from your payment solution to your accounting software. Eventually, Sush.io manages to match your deposit from, say, Stripe, to your own checking account feeds in the accounting software you'd use.
Wells Fargo Resources
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Foundation Center - We’re an innovative nonprofit that gathers and analyzes data, shares it worldwide, and empowers people like you to understand and increase philanthropy’s ability to improve the world.
Pugent Sound Grantwriters Association - Professional development for grantwriters involves a wide variety of fields.
Purdue OWL: Grant Writing - This resource provides general guidelines for grant writing in general and in the scientific disciplines.
Writing a Grant Application for Funding - In this Toolkit, you will find supports for writing a grant application for funding.
FounderSuite - Use investor updater to create engaging company reports in 15 minutes or less.
Honeystick - We're a fintech startup with a big vision for using data to improve how private capital markets and innovation clusters work. We live in the world of data but our biggest achievements are what we've been able to accomplish for the people who use Hockeystick.
Reportally - Enabling CEOs to stay engaged with their mentors, board and investors.
Xtensio - Xtensio does not only offer presentation tools but also interactive templates that will be useful during research, brainstorming, planning and strategy phases of a company.
Amber Grant - The Amber Grants began in 1998. It was launched by Womensnet to honor the memory of a young woman (Amber) who died at the age of 19 – unable to fulfill her entrepreneurial dreams. Today the Amber Grant helps women like you achieve the dreams that Amber could not.
Astia - Astia is transforming the way businesses are funded in the here and now, providing capital, connections, and guidance that fuel the growth of highly innovative, women-led ventures around the globe.
Center for International Private Enterprise - CIPE is a non-profit, private sector organization that provides financial support in the form of grants to non-government business organizations such as chambers of commerce, employers' federations, trade associations, and private enterprise-oriented research groups throughout the world.
Grants for Women - Women grants, especially business grants for women, give them the upperhand to fight back, and prevail. This type of assistance enables them to recover from an unfair and unjust system that has existed for a long time. The concept is very similar to affirmative action initiatives that help other minority groups.
LiftFund - LiftFund is a designated community development financial institution, or CDFI. CDFI’s are working in communities across the United States to provide affordable, responsible credit, create and sustain jobs, and to stabilize communities.
Online Government Grant Applications - Federal & State Governments have allocated majority of the money to people like you that want to start up or expand their existing business. Our online Government Grant program will provide you complete details to apply for Small Business Government Grants.
The Small Business Knowledge Base - A comprehensive free resource of business management ideas packed with dozens of guides and tools.
The Techstars Foundation - The Techstars Foundation was founded in 2015 and is committed to increasing diversity in entrepreneurship. We do this by investing in organizations with grant money and leveraging the Techstars network to empower these organizations to accelerate their mission forward.
U.S. Small Business Administration - The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.
Women’s Venture Fund - Founded in 1994, The Women’s Venture Fund (WVF) is a nonprofit organization that helps women to establish thriving businesses in urban communities with funding and business development programs.
500 Startups - 500 Startups isn’t just a name — we really have invested in over 500 companies. The numbers speak for themselves.
AngelList - Recruit top startup talent. Join 23,699 startups recruiting on AngelList.
Gust - Start and run your company confidently with startup legal, accounting, and financial tools and services all on one simple platform. Gust Launch was designed by experienced startup founders, investors, and lawyers, to help you incorporate and grow your company like a seasoned entrepreneur.
The New Rules of Event Sponsorship - New and affordable technology has changed event sponsorships. “The New Rules of Event Sponsorships” takes a hard look into what’s changed and how you can adapt to the world of data-driven sponsorships.