When you look into getting items and services for your business, the goal is to minimize your personal guarantee and avoid touching your personal credit. A personal guarantee makes you and your partners liable if the loan ever defaults. In bad cases, your personal assets could be sold off to pay for a loan. You [...]

Something else you’ll have to convince your clients of: If he says he’ll give up a share of his business in exchange for the use of your investor’s money, he’ll have to give up a very large share. Most small business investment corporations or private investors will want at least 25 percent, and more often [...]