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Revision as of 15:53, 16 July 2015
The team at Fledge, the “conscious company” accelerator, has published a list of incubators, accelerators, competitions, funds, and crowdfunding sites.
Startup Funding Sources
You have an impactful startup. You are looking for help, and looking for investors. Where do you find the people, programs, and funds to help?
The team at Fledge, the “conscious company” accelerator, has published (and updates) a list of incubators, accelerators, competitions, funds, and crowdfunding sites.
This Google Doc is viewable by anyone, and is periodically updated. If you have a impact funding source missing from this list, or if the information on your organization is incorrect, please Luni Libes (contact me)and I’ll see to those changes.
Other Best Practices Wiki Resources
- Startup and Entrepreneur Resources - annotated list of resources for a startup business.
- Small Business Resources - annotated list of resources for small businesses.
- Startup CEO Best Practices - best practices for the founder and leader of a startup.
Other Website Resources
- Luni Libes Blog with postings on advice for startups
- US Small Business Administration Loan Programs - small business loans, micro loans, equipment and real estate loans and disaster loans
- Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) finance community businesses, including small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate, and affordable housing. A locator for the 200+ CDFIs is online here.
- Access Finance Wizard a finance search tool of the US Government for small businesses.
- Canada -The Business Development Bank of Canada is a governments sponsored bank that provides a broad array of lending and other services to small and mediums size businesses through its 100 offices across Canada since its founding in 1944. Startups is a special focus of BDC including equity capital.
Author
The author of this article is Luni Libes.
Michael “Luni” Libes is a 20+ year serial entrepreneur, founder/co-founder of six startups, now focused on helping the next wave of entrepreneurs via a variety of efforts including: Fledge, the “conscious company” accelerator; Kick, the “inclusive” incubator; teaching and mentorship at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and author of The Next Step series of books and online classes for entrepreneurs and startups.
Luni maintains a blog Thoughts on and News of “Conscious” Entrepreneurship.
Luni has published a set of books and online classes guiding entrepreneurs from an initial idea through business planning and into operations of a startup company - The Next Step; A Guide for Entrepreneurs