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Idea Cafe's CyberSchmooz Financial Feasts Financing message forum where you can get and give insights found nowhere else. Belly up to the table and request funding. Or tell your money tales. Any money talk is fair game except ads. The Latest Hot Topics: Show Me the Money! Belly up to the Financial Feasts table and talk turkey about money… what to look for, where & how? All money talk is fair game. Go   Getting Ready for Money Who's not ready? Tuck in the loan docs, pass the financing and dig in. But money has an emotional component as well as a financial one, and both can give a budding entrepreneur heartburn. You wouldn't start a business without researching its market; don't go after financing without analyzing your needs -- and your feelings. Study your financing options like it's an exam you're determined to get an 'A' on (even if you hated school!) Consult books, publications, trade associations, personal contacts. Click through as many sections of Idea Cafe's Financing Your Business section as you can. Get a really good sense of what's out there and what are the right choices for your business. Make sure you don't spend a lot of time pursuing financing options that have little chance of success just because your business is in a different stage of development or you require a larger (or smaller) amount of money than is appropriate for the funder you're after. Time is money, and frustration costs emotional energy as well. And you don't want to clutter your credit report with excessive credit requests that can make you look shaky. And study yourself. Everybody's a little different when it comes to money. Analyzing your attitudes toward money now can help you make better decisions about financing that will speed you along on the road to success. Before You Apply for a Loan What Kind of Financing is Right for You Self-Exam: Which Recipe for Getting Money Tastes Right to You? Getting Ready Emotionally Self Exam: When Money Talks, What Does It Say About You? Your Basic Financial Package When You're in Trouble Self Exam: How to Know You're Really in Trouble How Much Do You Need? Idea Cafe's Instant All-in-One First Year Business and Personal Budget Worksheet How Long Will it Take? Cleaning Up Your Credit Women Getting Money Minorities Getting Money Understanding Promissory Notes   Enter your search terms Submit search form       Search Idea Cafe Web Small Business Tax Center • Idea Cafe Home • Sign Up • Biz Grant Center • CyberSchmooz •Coffee Talk with Experts • People in Biz Profiles • Starting Your Biz • Biz Planning • Running Your Biz • FREE Trade Publications • Marketing • Financing Your Biz • Human Resources • Legal & Biz Forms • Managing Your Biz • eCommerce • You and Your Biz • Gen X • Work@Home • The Fridge • De-Stress • Send an Award • Send an eGreeting • Yoga @ Your Desk • Web Guide • Idea Cafe in the News • About Idea Cafe • Advertise on Idea Cafe • Contact Us • Privacy Policy • Site Map • Small Biz News Copyright 1995-2008, Idea Cafe Inc. Downloads are for personal use only, not for resale to others, and may not be reprinted in any form without written permission from Idea Cafe Inc. DISCLAIMER: We hope whatever you find on this site is helpful, but be cautioned that it may not apply to your own situation, or be totally current at any given time. Idea Cafe Inc. and all of its current and past experts, sponsors, advertisers, agents, contractors and advisors disclaim all warranties with regard to anything found anywhere on this family of websites, quoted from, or sent from Idea Cafe, Inc. and its related sites, publications and companies. We also take no responsibility for comments published by others on these pages. TRADEMARKS: The following are Registered Trademarks or Servicemarks of Idea Cafe, Inc. or M.F. Ward: Idea Cafe®, Online Coffee Break®, The Small Business Gathering Place®, Take out Info®, Biz Bar & Grill®, Complaint-O-Meter®, A Fun Approach to Serious Business™, CyberSchmooz™, and BizCafe™.