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CEO Tech Guide to Creative Financing

Sheets of one hundred dollar bills are fed into a printing machine at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington

Photograph by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Looking Beyond Banks for Financing

Entrepreneurs are turning to crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending, microlending, and further creative ways to get startup capital

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Can creative financing ever replace traditional sources of funding and investment?

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