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Strategies For Business FinancingFor decades, entrepreneurs have followed a traditional stair-step of financing methods to vault their companies through successive stages of growth. Starting with personal savings, they would often then raise seed money from personal contacts, move on to banks, angel investors and/or venture capitalists. Eventually, a successful start up would offer shares to investors and become a publicly traded company.But openings onto that well-trodden path are narrowing. Banks and venture firms are less liberal with funds since the financial crisis of 2008. Initial public offerings of shares are also harder to float.However, new fundraising mechanisms have been springing up. The DIY culture of social media has produced hybrid online platforms with elements of contributing, investing and marketing. Through Kickstarter and Indiegogo, business innovators rely on the kindness of web strangers to back their projects. And Congress has just approved another “crowdfunding’’ model, through the JOBS Act that would permit private online sales of company shares.While supporters celebrate the new opportunities, some experts see dangers of investor fraud, as well as possible pitfalls for unwary start ups.Click ahead to see what the various forms of funding are, and what entrepreneurs have used to build successful companies.By Bernadette Tansey, Special to CNBC.comPosted 2 May 2012Photo: REB Images | Blend Images | Getty Images

2 May

11 Ways to Finance a Start Up

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Based on thousands of mobile studies conducted by my digital consultancy, AnswerLab, here are three quick things you must do to make sure your mobile app succeeds, like Instagram:

2 May

How to Build the Next Instagram
via cnbc.com and INC.

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The Best States to Start a Business
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Amazon pulled more than 4,000 e-books distributed by the Independent Publishers Group off its site this week after it failed to exact better terms from the distributor. It’s the sharpest dispute between the retailer and publishers in two years, with no resolution in sight.

2 May

Amazon Pulls Thousands of E-Books in Dispute

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Anyone with a smartphone and a few minutes can make a video. Add an internet connection, and you can share it with the world. And that’s not always a good thing. You can do harm to your brand by creating videos that turn people off, instead of making them more curious. Video is a powerful medium, but there’s no point in using video unless you know what to say, and how to present it to your audience. Period.

2 May

So You Want to Be on YouTube. Here’s What Not to Do- (via cnbc.com- click for details.)

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madness- if that happens insurance companies wont have to pay…. so you get less out of the plan you paid for and spend more $$$$$ out of pocket at a higher rate as costs will soar. Read the article its interesting.

1 May

FDA may let patients buy drugs without prescriptions – Washington Times

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Mobile app helps report unfair airport screeners  | ajc.com

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30 Apr

Microsoft Corp has agreed to invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble Inc’s Nook digital-book business and college texts, in a deal that helps establish the value of the popular Nook business while giving Microsoft a foothold in the e-book market.

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Maybe no housing rebound for a generation: Shiller

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Former Hacker Reveals How to Protect Your Blog from People Like Him | My Lead System PRO – MyLeadSystemPRO

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