The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has released their 2017 report on the alternative finance...

Entrepreneurs fighting to reach $1M in annual revenue have a one-track mind. Ask one how they plan to raise capital to meet their sales...

Our CEO, BJ Lackland, was recently featured on the Law of Startups podcast with Joe Wallin, Principal at Carney Badley Spellman, and Mike...

Last week, three colleagues and I attended LendIt in San Francisco. It was a great way to connect with 4,000 other people working in...

I joined the Lighter Capital team just over a month ago as VP of Business Development and it’s been an absolute blast. We have a great...

Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California is the epicenter of VC. While many tech founders dream of scoring a deal with one of...

This week the Lighter Capital team has the great opportunity to be in New York, sponsoring the LendIt conference. LendIt is the largest...

We are proud to announce that Lighter Capital will be a sponsor of this year’s LendIt Conference , which is the world’s largest annual...

The SEC has just (finally, over a year after the overarching act was signed) ruled on, and approved Section 201(a) of the Jumpstart Our...

A year ago in the Harvard Business review Yale University Professor of Economics Robert H. Schiller proposed a, mostly theoretical, new...

Crowdfunding seems to be the new way to go in raising money and a cool tool for entrepreneurs. You get a platform to share your story,...

A couple of recent articles are showing the ever-widening cracks in the venture capitalist model of funding. Basically, the VC idea is to...

The hurdles to creating fantastic new software are falling fast, and it is now easier than ever to get your ideas out of your head and...