Charity – 5 Reasons Your Business Should Support One
MILLENNIALS & CHARITY If millennials are one thing, it’s socially conscious consumers. Studies show that millennials are more likely to purchase from a company that gives back to its community, volunteers, and supports a charity. By aligning your brand with a cause, you can attract a niche audience and receive more business because of your donation. […]
ModKat Litter Box: Invention Out of Necessity
It’s a funny thing; when you put people in small spaces and force them to maximize the efficiency of every item in their tiny apartment, incredible inventions come out of it. Rich Williams attributes his successful reinvention of the humble litter box to his two cats Mika and Sashi, his modern but small Brooklyn apartment, […]
Broker Fair 2019 was Incredible, Again!
The 2nd annual Broker Fair was yesterday, Monday May 6th, 2019 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, New York. The show sold out several weeks in advance yet again, as hundreds of brokers and funders attended from all across the US. The Broker Fair 2019, the largest MCA convention in the country, is presented by deBanked Magazine, […]
Why Do Business Owners Use Restaurant Finance? – Guide to Financing a Restaurant
Let’s be real, your tip jar isn’t going to get your restaurant to its next milestone, no matter how many times you provide service with a smile. That’s why so many small, medium and large food service industry businesses are seeking additional financing to meet their working capital needs and take their eatery to the […]
4 Finance Conventions To Keep On Your Radar This Fall
Finance conventions are one of the best things to happen to the industry since online banking. They allow people passionate about their work to stay up to date on the industry, network with like minded individuals and companies, and take a mini vacation! You can’t put a price on hands on experience, but if you […]
UPS: Company Culture as a Driving Force
If you were given $100 and 100 years, could you grow a company to be worth a $47.5 billion? Jim Casey, co-founder of United Parcel Service (UPS) did just that. In 1907, he and friend Claude Ryan were just teenagers when they used one bike and $100 borrowed from a friend (then worth about $2,400) […]
2019 Business Funding Options
Out with the old, in with the new. 2019 business funding is already showing new ways for business owners to grow and sustain their companies. While much of the industry hasn’t drastically changed, there are still new options business owners should be aware of that might suit their financial needs better than financing plans offered […]
Business News Daily – 6 Small Business Tech Trends
FundKite was recently featured in a Business News Daily article on “6 Small Business Tech Trends,” with quotes from Alex Shvarts, CTO of FundKite, on how influencer marketing will change in 2019. “As a small business owner, you may not be on the forefront of developing technology as enterprise-level businesses often are, but tech still […]
Love Your Melon: Social Media & Making A Difference
Millennials are often teased and scoffed at for being a generation of social media obsessed narcissists. But those quick to pass those judgements haven’t been exposed to millennial startups like Love Your Melon who use the power of social media to spread good in the world. Love Your Melon began in 2012 as a lemonade stand class project […]
Rent the Runway: The Millennial Business Model
It’s been called the Spotify, Netflix and Uber of dresses, it’s Rent The Runway. Rent The Runway’s story dates back to 2008 when Jennifer Hyman visited her sister in New York City while on Thanksgiving break from Harvard Business School. Her sister showed her a $1,600 designer dress she had purchased for a wedding that weekend, […]