by Lea Strickland | Aug 25, 2016 | Business Articles, Crowdfunding, Funding, NC PACES Act
Crowdfunding – Category Determines Taxation Crowdfunding, like campaigns you see on sites like Kickstarter or GoFundMe, can essentially be categorized into three types of transactions: Equity investment – the funds received purchase ownership interest. Gift –...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Competitiveness, Entrepreneur, Execution, Funding, Leadership, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Non-Profit, Small Business, Start-up
Over the years there have been several—okay, many—instances in which there have been people doing business with a cheerful and/or blatant disregard for boundaries. These individuals cheerfully and often recklessly bound forward with the glee and optimism of an...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Commercialization, Competitiveness, Concept, Entrepreneur, Funding, Leadership, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Non-Profit, Small Business, Small Business, Start-up, Strategy
To know whether or not you have a viable business concept, you have to comprehensively define (on paper) your thoughts, ideas, and vision. You also need to gather information related to those ideas: market size, competitors, pricing, and so on. With that information...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Management, Funding, Leadership, Strategy
Not having children of my own, I don’t have first hand experience as a parent, but I have observed certain things about raising children: It takes more time than you anticipated. No amount of planning can account for all the variables of things that can...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Commercialization, Entrepreneur, Funding, Human Resources
As a potential investor in a company, do you and your team know what questions to ask? When you ask the questions, do you probe beyond the surface to verify the elements of the answers? Are there areas which could potentially put your investment at risk that you don’t...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Funding, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Small Business, Start-up
More Than The PowerPoint Many companies and their leadership teams believe that raising funds is all about the presentation to potential investors. It is that and much more. The first step in raising funds is to understand the process – including what constitutes a...
