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As the online sectors continues to mature, there are more ways to finance your business and increase your growth without sacrificing a large amount of equity. By financing several fast-growing websites, my company has gained a perspective on how the landscape is changing. Here are a few lessons we’ve learned along the way.
1. Most Capital Raises Have Gotten Smaller

We’ve all been reading about the series of huge raises that Groupon, Zynga, Facebook and Twitter have completed recently. However, on the other end of the spectrum, startup capital isn’t as big budget as it was in the ’90s. The technology to manage and monetize websites has gotten a lot cheaper and easier to deploy. While this means that there are fewer barriers to entry nowadays, the downside is that investors simply don’t want to invest as much, even in very strong ideas.

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Author: Jed Simon