Banks don't get businesses like yours. I do.

Before you begin… (To write or not to write): Creating a business plan is a major investment of time and energy, requiring a lot of thought, research, planning, calculations, and effort. It's an essential first step on the road to owning your own business. But – not everyone needs to write one. First, you need to decide whether your idea is worth pursuing. Before you begin, take a deep breath, step back from your normal, everyday mindset, and look at your business (or busines

Everyone would love to issue their own money! It's a dream as old as money itself – to be instantly rich without the slightest effort. Plenty of people have (rather ironically) worked their butts off to make this dream a reality. There are many, many different kinds of private currencies competing with government issued ones. This article will give you an excellent overview of the entire field of what are generally called complementary or alternative currencies. With a little

For most people in the U.S., life revolves around acquiring and spending money. This is true for all industrialized countries, and in many developing nations. Yet money is a creature of belief; it's only worth something so long as we believe it to have value. This becomes obvious when you consider all the failed currencies past and present, in places where people suffer from chronic disillusionment with governments and institutions. Like Zimbabwe in South Africa, where inflat