Thursday, January 10, 2008

Free Help for Starting a Business

More than 550,000 small businesses are launched each year. Unfortunately, a third of these start-ups fold withing two years. Rather than spend thousands for workshops to help improve your odds of success, you can get free advice from the following resources:

- The Small Business Administration, whose website provides information on how to market your business;

- Circle Lending: Circle lending handles services like electronic billing and payment processing on interpersonal loans fron family and friends, who most entrepreneurs turn to when looking for seed money; and

- Angel Capital Association: A professional association for angel investor groups, who are typically affluent people who fund early-stage start-ups in exchange for an equity stake.

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