When small business (SMB) investment marketplace MainVest announced a $3 million Seed funding round last week, it did something that many Main Street SMBs cannot do. Companies are staying private longer, lengthening initial public offering (IPO) cycles and lowering benefits for the average investor, MainVest...
There are all kinds of startups that set out with a big goal in mind — disrupting an ecosystem; remaking the way people buy, sell and pay; hitting reset in healthcare and even changing the entire world as we know it. Big plans generally required...