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The Top 5 Lessons Learned in Our First Year

Ryan Caldbeck | Posted 04.25.2013 | Small Business
Read More: Investments, Angel Investing, Equity Crowdfunding, Crowdfunding, Angel Investors, Circleup, Crowdsourcing, Private Investing, Retail, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Consumer Products, Private Companies, Private Equity, Consumer Spending, Small Business News
Ryan Caldbeck

In the course of its first year any startup will confront issues it had not anticipated. Decisions will be made that are wrong. Every new business is different, and every one will encounter its own unique problems. Here are the lessons we learned from our mistakes at CircleUp in our first year.

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In Wake of Election, SMBs Expected to Serve as Engine of Economic Growth

Ryan Caldbeck | Posted 01.14.2013 | Small Business
Read More: Linkedin, Small Business, Ipo, Angel Investing, Jobs, Crowdfunding, qe3, Private Equity, Ben Bernake, Romney, Private Investing, Seed Investing, Obama, Election, Venture Capital, Jobs Act, Fed Diversification, Unemployment, Apple, Public Investing, Quantitative Easing, Entrepreneur, Iphone 5, Small Business News
Ryan Caldbeck

Small businesses now must make some assumptions about policy decisions and move forward. They are too important to the country's economic recovery to remain in limbo.

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The Case for Impact(ful) Investing in Public Markets

Ben Thornley | Posted 10.16.2012 | Business
Read More: Impact Investing, Private Investing, Impact Private Market, Impact Public Market, Public Investing, Business News
Ben Thornley

Impact investing is concentrated in private markets for good reason: influence. Investors in public companies have very little, or at least considerably less. But it would be a mistake to presume that impact investing is impossible in public markets.

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