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The method of business funding that involves getting lots of small donations from individual investors, has become more and more popular over recent years. Not all businesses are appealing to big investors, and crowdfunding can be a way to get a project off the ground that otherwise  might not see the light of day. These are just a few of the ways to tell if crowdfunding might be the right choice for your business. Traditionally Marginalized Entrepreneur Women, people of color, those who are disabled, and those who have multiple marginalizations – women of color, for example – have historically had a more difficult time getting bank loans or big funding acquisitions. Even venture capital teams who think they are approaching pitches without bias are more likely to accept the exact same pitch when it is given by a man. With more women and people of color making their ways into venture capital circles, this inherent bias may slowly shift, but in the meantime, these entrepreneurs may s

You have to have a small amount of money and invest it regularly for a long time," Baron says."It's all about compounding," the Baron Capital founder says, referring to the power of making regular investments and reinvesting the returns. It's wrong for people to think that they have to be wealthy to get rich investing in the stock market, famed buy-and-hold investor Ron Baron told CNBC in a Friday interview. "You have to have a small amount of money and invest it regularly for a long time, and live to get to be old. That's how you get rich," said the billionaire founder of Baron Capital, which has nearly $26 billion in assets under management. He appeared on  "Squawk Box"  from the sidelines of his annual investor conference in New York City. "It's all about compounding," he said, referring to the power of making regular investments and reinvesting the returns over decades. On a shorter time horizon, he said that a decade

After creating not one but two highly successful natural drinks companies, Greg Steltenpohl is "not one for regrets". However, the former jazz musician does rank the sale of his first business, Odwalla, to Coca-Cola back in 2001 as a "pretty big disappointment". He co-founded the firm, now one of America's best-known juice and smoothie brands, with some friends back in 1980, simply as a way to support his career as a musician. It became an early pioneer of the "whole foods" movement, priding itself on its all natural ingredients, quirky branding and independent ethos. But after an outbreak of E. coli was associated with one of its juices in 1996, sales dried up. Image copyrightJASON TESTER GUERRILLA FUTURESImage captionMr Steltenpohl co-founded Odwalla, one of America's best-known smoothie brands The founders had to take on new investment to stay afloat and lost control of the board. Within five years Mr Steltenpohl had quit, and Odwalla was

How to balance those differing pressures? Dani Bolser thought she'd finally cracked it when she started her new job as a receptionist for an events company. "It started off quite well, but suddenly my bosses were asking me to come in a little bit earlier or can you work a little bit later," she says. "It just turned into something very high-pressured." It wasn't her first attempt to get back into work. "After the birth of my first child, I've tried part-time, full-time and working weekends. And no matter what I tried, it either broke into precious family time or it just wasn't financially viable for our family." At the age of 28, Dani started her own business, DeluxeBlooms, last year. She now designs and sells luxury faux flowers from her kitchen table in Ilkley, west Yorkshire. "My husband encouraged me," she says. "I've always been creative. It kind of fits with my love of flowers. Now I can choose how much work I