Coverage of the earliest stage of a company: proving demand, choosing a legal structure, setting terms with a first customer, and raising money from banks, grants or revenue instead of investors. Written for people starting a business alongside a job, and for the advisers guiding them.
The founding stage in detail: testing demand before building, structuring the company, finding paying customers, funding growth without losing control.
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate unchanged on July 29, keeping SBA 7(a) borrowing pinned to a 6.75% prime rate and leaving open the chance the next move is up, not down.
Priya Vaithilingam
Investors triage decks in minutes — the survive-or-die slides are the problem, the traction, and the arithmetic of the ask.
Priya Vaithilingam
Venture money buys speed with ownership and control; bootstrapping buys independence with time — the honest comparison is priced in years and percentage points.
Tanya Brooks
Before you sign anything, the franchisor owes you a 23-item disclosure document, on a clock — and the parts that matter most are items 5, 6, 7, and 19.
Priya Vaithilingam
The first version exists to answer one question at minimum cost — every feature that does not serve the question is a delay wearing a roadmap costume.
Priya Vaithilingam