Equity financing is a useful tool that can you can use to help grow your business. In this type of financing, you would sell shares of your company to raise money for it. You may choose to sell these shares to your friends and family, to investors, or to sell them in an IPO, or initial public offering. It may also be helpful to consult with an accounting firm like Brown Smith Wallace LLP prior to doing equity financing.

This type of financing is different than debt financing, which is when a company sells bills, bonds, or notes to investors to gain capital. Unlike debt financing, equity financing places no holds or restrictions on the company’s activities. There is also no obligation to pay back the money that you have earned through equity financing either. In debt financing, you must pay back the money that you’ve earned over time with interest.

In this article, I’ll be going over 8 ways equity financing can grow your business, and hopefully, by the end of this article, you’ll have the information necessary to decide whether or not equity financing is the right move for you and you company.

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Deviating from the traditional concept of borrowing large lenders and banks, fast cash loans have gaining immense popularity. Maybe your car has broken down or an unforeseen medical bill just came up, small loans come in handy to tackle such unexpected expenses.

A fast cash loan is a fixed amount of money that is paid off after a short period of time. Cash loans offer several benefits:

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Commercial loans are simply debt funding which is used for a variety of business purposes. This includes the development of real estate, to purchase equipment for business operations or to add to available working capital. These types of loans are available from both banking institutions and specialist lenders that focus on providing financing for businesses while eschewing retail banking entirely.

Lending for business purposes takes on a number of forms. This is partly due to the size of the loans which far exceed that of personal loans for individuals to purchase a car or renovate a kitchen. As such, commercial loans run the gamut in type and size with terms varying for larger deals to suit both the lender and the borrower.

In this article, we run through five of the best types of commercial loans available to clear up the main differences between them.

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The Alliance of American Football (AAF) was a new spring football league that opened its season one week after the 2019 NFL championship game. Years in the making, the league showed plenty of promise in its first few weeks. Then things completely changed overnight. The league folded after just eight weeks, not even completing its inaugural season. The AAF is a shining example of why start up business loans are so critical to small business.

During the media autopsy performed on the AAF in the weeks following its collapse, it was discovered that the company behind the league was in financial trouble early on. The company had promised all of its employees – including players and coaches – that it had enough funding to play for three seasons without any financial worries. It wasn’t true.

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