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1) Have Your Business Plan Ready:
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The first step in starting any business is outlining a comprehensive and coherent plan. Finding investors for your business will be very difficult if your plan is vague or badly constructed. There are companies out there that specialize in helping new businesses outline and articulate their strategies. It
is worth your while to consult them.
It is also important that you do some research into these companies, and determine which one is most suitable to your needs. We have provided you with a list of links to look into.
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 Bplans.com Business Planning Resource - for entrepreneurs and small business. Includes free sample business plans, sample marketing plans, plan outlines, tips, start-up business, financing, venture capital, and related information.
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2) Find Financing :
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Once you have outlined your business plan and objectives, the next step is to figure out a way to raise capital for your business venture.
There are two main choices before you: capital can be sought either in the form of investments or loans. There are advantages and disadvantages to both forms. You should therefore put a lot of work and thought into determining which approach your company should take.
We have provided you with a list of links related to both means by which to find capital for your business:
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A) Venture
Capital
B) Other Financial Institutions
With
Live Capital, you can find the right financing for your small business in one Internet session lasting less than 5 minutes. It delivers one-stop, instant access to multiple lenders offering competitive rates and terms.
- PCU Capital Network - nationwide SBA loan services for real estate offices, startups, and other small businesses.
- AeroFund Financial - provides accounts receivable financing, asset based lending, factoring and equipment leasing.
- Allbex - Newport Beach, CA - specializing in equity and asset based business loans.
- Amauri Funding Group - comprised of several entities providing financing to businesses and churches.
- Apple Industries Limited - India - offers consumer, investment, housing and corporate finance.
- ARJAN Commercial Loans - Vancouver, BC - provides commercial loans for American Bank and American investors and/or European Financial Trust Company in U.S. dollars.
- Berkman Financial Services - commercial loans and credit for companies with cash flow problems, insufficient earnings, or financial problems.
- Brookstone Financial Group - provides loans to businesses.
- Business Lenders - Hartford, CT - business, acquisition, real estate and equipment loans.
- Business Loan Center - Wichita, KS - non-bank SBA lender that provides long-term commercial loans for a wide range of business credit purposes.
- Caja de Arquitectos - Spain - financial services specifically for architects.
- Camel Financial - providing working capital lines of credit.
- Capital Finance - expert witness testimony and financial consulting in all aspects of banking, finance and financial institutions.
- Chancellor Financial Services - Houston, TX - providing Texas school districts a full range of financing options for needed equipment and construction projects.
- Charter Financial Management - provides SBA loans, financial consulting, accounting, and other services.
- CIT Group - New York, NY - provides revolving and term loans, secured by accounts receivable, inventories and fixed assets, and used in acquisitions,
refinancings, debtor-in-possession, confirmation and turnaround financing.
- CNL Restaurant Group - commercial financing for the franchise restaurant industry.
- Coffer Commercial Finance - Cleveland, OH - equipment and truck lease financing,
saleleasebacks, mortgages, accounts receivable cash advances and credit lines.
- Commercial Capital Corporation - nationally licensed non-bank SBA lender that provides long term commercial loans for a wide range of business purposes, including franchises.
- Commercial Finance Group - New York, NY - commercial loans, commercial credit, mortgages and finance.
- Congress Financial Corp. - specialising in strategic acquisitions, refinancing bank debts, debt restructuring and accounts receivables financing.
- Copelco/American HealthFund, Inc. - provides asset-based financing exclusively to healthcare providers throughout the United States.
- Crestmark Bank - Troy, MI - specializes in financing small business with factoring,
ABL, leasing and traditional loans.
- Deschutes Capital, Ltd. - provides asset-based and cash flow financing for middle market companies, including revolving lines of credit, leases, commercial real estate loans, and subordinated financing.
- DGH Financial Services, Inc. - helps companies secure financing via SBA guaranteed loans.
- DuPont Omni - Arlington, MA - project funding, import, export, real-estate, global strategic financial planning, arbitration, insurance, immigration services, product procurement etc.
- Fleet Capital Corporation - asset based and cash flow financing for acquisitions, leveraged buyouts,
recapitalizations, restructings, growth and modernization for middle market companies.
- Flexible Funding - San Francisco, CA - full service funding solution for temporary/contract agencies.
- Franchise Mortgage Acceptance Company - a provider of specialty financing for the restaurant, energy, golf, and funeral industries.
- Funding Resource Associates - resource for special funding needs.
- Global Funding Group - funding against bank guarantees, letters of credit, and insurance policies.
- Global Resource Funding, Inc - provides factoring, asset-based lending, leasing, debt arbitration and meditation, and cash-flow consulting for domestic and foreign companies.
- Gold Eagle Company - Indianapolis, IN - provides conventional and alternative financing services.
- Golden Mac - provides loans and lines of credit for new McDonald's Franchisees or for existing McDonald restaurants. Also home to IMCO Corporation and Jobber Mac.
- Haskin & Associates, Inc. - arranges, negotiates, and structures a wide variety of senior and subordinated debt financing services.
- HPSC Financial, Inc. - Boston, MA - a financing corporation for healthcare professionals.
- International Franchise Capital - San Diego, CA - agent for Deutsche Bank North America.
- iRestaurantFinance.com - connecting restaurant operators with lenders.
- J & B Securities - offers real estate loans, aircraft and watercraft financing and leasebacks, accounts receivable, venture capital and more.
- K&B Capital Corporation - Boca Raton, FL - financing of business loans, venture capital, account receivable finance and construction.
- Legend Capital Corporation - Marina del Rey, CA
- Linden Financial Group - debt and equity funding source that provides capital loans for small to mid-sized businesses from a multitude of sources.
- MFR Financial - providing purchase order financing.
- Monterey Financial Services, Inc. - offers receivables financing, portfolio servicing and defaulted account collection.
- Nunnery Financial LLC - provides financing, loans, and equipment leasing to trucking and other industries.
- Obert Financial Group - East Bridgewater, MA - specializes in asset based lending and accounts receivable factoring, and funding to resolve tax liens and bankruptcy.
- Olympic Credit Fund, Inc. - Olympia, WA - provides a continuous source of working capital to small businesses needing business loans.
- Omni Fidelity Credit Corporation - Houston, TX - commercial and residential real estate financing, commercial credit, factoring and more.
- Pacific Financial Services Corp. - commercial finance company.
- Professional Medical Consultants (PMC) - San Diego, CA - nation-wide coporation providing financial services exclusively for healthcare professionals.
- Professional Practice Capital, LLC - provides bank financing to dentists, dental specialists, veterinarians and physicians for buying practices, equipment, leasehold improvements, and buildings.
- ProMed Financial - specializing in the medical, golf and turf industries. Includes a list of medical practices for sale.
- RDL Financial - small business loans, equipment leasing, and more.
- RealCash - North York, Ontario, Canada - commission advances for the real-estate professional.
- Resource Capital - Memphis, TN - revolving lines of credit secured by accounts receivable and inventory.
- RFC Capital Corporation - providing working capital, subordinated debt, and equipment financing for telecommunications and related industries.
- Ridgway Financial Services, Inc. - Pasadena, TX - helps small businesses gain access to money through commercial loans.
- Small Business Loan Source, Inc. - Houston, TX - offers loans for real estate, new construction, or purchasing or starting up a business.
- Small Business Loans, Inc. - offers loans, venture capital, lines of credit, and more.
- SmallBusinessloans.com - directory of small business lenders.
- Source Capital Corporation - commercial real estate loans, equipment leasing, accounts receivable financing, and asset-based lending, with flexible underwriting.
- Thomson & Company - Williamstown, MA - project financing consultants. We can provide qualified firms with financing for projects requiring capital in excess of five million dollars.
- Victorian Finance & Leasing Ltd - specialised financier offering equipment finance and mortgages to the business sector. Up to 10% paid on investments.
- WebBank Corporation
- Western Technology Investment - specialists in lending to venture capital backed technology companies.
- Zion Small Business Finance - provides small businesses with funding and servicing of government guaranteed small business loans.
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