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What Angel Investors Value Most When Choosing What to Fund

Harvard Business Review

As Diane Mulcahy explained in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article : ”Angel investors — affluent individuals who invest smaller amounts of capital at an earlier stage than VCs do — fund more than 16 times as many companies as VCs do,” she wrote, “and their share is growing.” Steven Moore.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. By providing software and counseling, the exchanges will help consumers make informed comparisons among these offerings. Many conservatives still decry the ACA.

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Running a State Health Insurance Marketplace

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. The average credit was $270 per month.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher.

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

will not be legalized until 2013). Sure, this amount pales in comparison to the $282 billion that U.S. More than 80% of campaigns in this category have raised more than $25,000. banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC.

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A Brief History of America’s Attitude Toward Taxes

Harvard Business Review

I have inflated all the incomes to 2013 dollars to make comparisons more easily understood. Financing WWII could have been used as an excuse for these highly confiscatory rates, but rather than dropping after the end of war, they continued to rise. All the data is from the very handy Tax Foundation website.

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China’s New Development Bank Is a Wake-Up Call for Washington

Harvard Business Review

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. In comparison, the U.S. And once again, the U.S. is scrambling to catch up. spent more than $1 billion on Ebola. It is essential for the U.S.