Thinking about attending an accelerator but don’t know what to expect? We’ve contacted accelerators across North America to find out what entrepreneurs really need to know before they attend an accelerator.

Is your NDA doing more harm than good for your startup?  Here are 5 reasons Angel and VC funds avoid NDAs.

Patents ensure innovators and entrepreneurs that no one can legally “steal” your idea. So, what kind of patent do you need? Where do you begin?

A big company bench can allow you to scale rapidly, but excess payroll costs can also drag you down…fast. On the other hand, you can’t be too timid or slow, the market waits for no person. So how do you handle this dilemma?

Every scalable startup will require external funding. A great team with an amazing idea where there is a clear demand is still doomed without the finances to make it happen.

In the U.S. alone, over 8.7 million people are self-employed entrepreneurs. That’s roughly 2.6% of the total population. So what do they have that other people don’t? Here are the different entrepreneur types and why they are successful.

Adequately addressing these 8 factors in your pitch to an angel group will build confidence in the minds of the investors, improving the ultimate probability of funding.

As an angel investor and leader of an angel group, I receive funding inquiries every day. Most come in the form of an executive summary, which typically provides one of the initial interactions an entrepreneur will have with an investor.

Mission statements are very simple, which makes them exceptionally hard to formulate. There are five components to a good company mission statement.

1. Growing old while building a startup company will mature both you and the business.