The Official Blog of La Broi "LB" Walton

We both know how difficult it can be when it comes to acquiring funds for your start-up or idea.  That is the worse thing about having great ideas, action, determination, and being broke!  You are forced to go out and look for investors in society where there is more of a dearth of them.  If you are lucky enough to find a fat-wallet investor, you have have to worry about paying them back.  This means it may take you even longer to get in profit mode.  This wait could cause many business and personal problems (depending on what type of agreement you enter into with your investor(s)) such as being late on your rent or mortgage payment, relationship issues,  employee issues, quality of service/product, etc.

There are many cases where acquiring investors is more beneficial to owners, but in this economy we see the reverse occurring more often.  For example, over the past year we have seen at least 50 of our neighboring (within a mile) businesses change management or close their doors for good.  Some of generic levitra these store fronts have seen as much as 3 different owners in a cialis prescriptions year!  Seeing this happen before our eyes really proves that this recession is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Now that you are good and scared, you will be happy to know that there are still 10s of thousands of people who would love to see your business or idea succeed...and they are closer than you would imagine.  You don't have to go hit the streets, go to networking events, talk to your rich friends' parents, or anything like that.  All you really need is your idea and a great presentation that you are willing to post online.

In the past few years the internet has become much more relevant in the business world.  Businesses now have Facebook accounts that are valued as a legitimate asset for the amount of money the pages bring into their companies.  They value their social media accounts so much that many businesses are now spending hefty amounts of cash on personnel to manage their internet presence.  So it only makes since that venture capitalists buy generic amoxil are also looking to not only invest buy phentermine in internet ideas, westernunion but also to utilize the world wide web to find start-ups, ideas, or causes to invest in.

Now here is the kicker (no pun intended--you will soon understand), some of the investors you find online don't want their money paid back to them or even a share in your company!  What?!  This may be hard to believe but it is entirely true, proven by Kickstarter.com.

Kickstarter is a "social-funding" website.  It broadens the investor pool, allowing anyone to provide funding and a legitimate stage to present their idea.  It works like this:

Members are allowed to post their ideas, how much funding they require, and their timelines.  Depending on how intriguing their ideas, presentations, and copywriting are, fellow members will "pledge" however much they choose of their own, actual money to projects they like and want to see realized.  Even though people are pledging their funds to see a cool project completed, they usually still get something cool out of the deal.  Some project creators offer free or steep discounts off their future product or service.  Some may even get more creative than that by offering free trips, courses, etc.

Below is one of the coolest projects I have came across on online amoxil target="_blank">Kickstarter.  This project has reached complete funding so if you also like it you can start looking for one to buy on their Ampicillin buy cheap website.

Click buy cheap acomplia here levitra prescriptions to see this project's actual Kickstarter post.

Kickstarter is probably the greatest website of 2010, especially for anyone with a great idea struggling to gain the funding they need.

-La Broi "LB" Walton