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  By   Jo Burston 15 January 2015 Ahead of our Google Hangout on funding, Australian serial entrepreneur Jo Burston takes us on a whistlestop tour of alternative funding sources for your start-up. Every entrepreneur wants the very best shot at investment, whether that’s angel, seed, venture capital, institutional or private funding. This means becoming highly investable as an entrepreneur and being deal ready. Most new entrepreneurs struggle to navigate this process and often do not have the knowledge, experience and resources to create a successful first time outcome. There are many ways to fund your start-up, here are some of the most common. Self-funding Self-funding is often the most common way for a start-up to fund a venture, usually consisting of small amounts of saved cash or credit card facilities. Mortgaging an asset such as a home is also common if the entrepreneur is at a later stage of their life. We have seen self-funding range from as little as a $1,0

Even with no product and no website, you can get paid for what and who you know triloks/E+/Getty Images IEW ALL  By  Scott Allen Updated November 09, 2016 Making money online used to require having your own website, products to sell and some marketing savvy. However, in today's digital age, there have never been more ways to get paid for what you know and who you know, without having to be an established web designer or a marketing genius. In fact, starting an online business and building a foundation for future growth can be done in a matter of hours, as opposed to what used to take days, weeks, even months. If you have a novel business idea, a well-defined target audience in mind, and the skills to pull it off, you can make money online in countless different ways. But, it's hard to tell the difference between legitimate business ideas and the seemingly great opportunities that'll instead end up wasting valuable time. I did a se

Technology's ever-pervading permeation into every last fiber and morsel of society has caused a dramatic upheaval in the way we live, work and entertain ourselves. Thanks to the disruptive nature of the internet, the rate of change has only increased exponentially in recent years. Yet, with so much change in the world today, and a nearly-instantaneous access to the globe's population through mediums such as social media and online search, many people are still left perplexed by how they can utilize the powerful technology inherently available through the internet, to actually  make money online . The truth? It's not easy making money online today. With so much competition and so many people and headlines vying for our attention, sifting through and finding reputable sources to generate any respectable amount of income through the web has become an ever-increasing challenge. Often, what happens is that we run into unscrupulous Internet Marketers (IMs) who have less-

One of the most counter intuitive traits that can hurt entrepreneurs is smarts. Yes, the more successful you are and the more talents you have, the harder it is to run a business. While you may think that being smart, motivated and talented would logically make someone the best possible candidate for entrepreneurship, unfortunately, this is often not the case. The 'I'm better than everyone at every task' challenge, The smart-people problem starts back in school when the dreaded “group projects” are first assigned. Knowing the 80/20 rule for work (80% of all work is done by 20% of the people), what do you think happens in every group project? The smartest and most talented people in each group decide that they are going to do the lion’s share of the work. They don’t want to risk their grade in the class by dividing the work equally and hoping that Timmy (the guy who is absent from class two days a week on average and sleeps through class on the other three days) does