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openforum.com/yourbusiness or e-mail questions or comments yourbusiness@msnbc.e often talk about how angel investors are expertise for business investors. check out our website of the week. angelcapitaleducation.org. you can check out helpful articles, links to related sites, and listings to angel groups around the country. the site founded by the entrepreneurial support group the koffman foundation. to learn about today's show, clicken our website openforum.com/yourbusiness. you'll find all of today's segments, plus web-exclusive content with more information to help your business grow. and don't forget to become a fan of the show on facebook. we look forward to getting some of your feedback. also follow us on twitter. it's at msnbcyourbiz. next week, meet entrepreneurs who found overwhelming success in the booming industry of appl apps. >> we realized there is some potential, not to sell 7 million copies, but you know, to make this a full-time job that we can enjoy and earn a decent living. >> find out how small teams of developers are going head-to-head with

the address is yourbusiness at msnbc.com.houch money you're trying to raise and what you intend to do with that money and what your product is. you never know. somebody may be interesting in helping you. it's time to answer some of your business questions. jen and maureen are back with us again. when to approach a venture capital firm. >> we're a very small company. we have significant revenues. but what is the right time for us to approach a venture capital firm, for example, if we wanted to take our company from an $80 million company to $800 million company. >> i think when you first see growth slowing down you need to be reinvesting more capital than cash flow. they're going to be able to stand back and watch. you're going to give too much away. you don't want to do it too late because you will go under. that is really smart. it will help in negotiation once you go to the place. >> one question to ask yourself, too, do you want venture capital money. because you're not just getting money. you're getting somebody on your b

again the website is openforum.com/yourbusiness. or you can e-mail us.heard from mike and carol, let's get more survival tips from entrepreneurs just like you. >> make sure you have a business plan and you follow through and update it frequently, stay creditworthy and not to worry about motivating your employees but to find the correct employee and the control will take care of itself. >> people don't like having their pay cut or vacations cut without knowing why, and that two-way communications is very important right from the beginning and involving everybody as much as possible. they look to leadership to tell them what's going to happen even if we don't know and especially because we don't know. >> this is the third company i've started. this is the most challenging time because the capital markets are very difficult, but i guess the most important thing is to achieve small measurable milestones which create value and which can build a concrete story for investors. >>> no matter how much experience you have, it always helps to be able to bounce ideas

it is openforum.com/yourbusiness. you'll find all of today's segments plus web-exclusive content with more information to help your business grow. >>> and don't forget to become a fan of the show on facebook. we look forward to getting some of your feedback. and you can follow us on twitter atmsnbc.biz. >>> this is my favorite customer i had two years ago. are you organic, honey? because i only eat organic. i said, oh, really? that's interesting. >> find out what they are doing to change the perceptions of their consumers. until then, i'm j.j. ramberg. remember, we make your business our business. what had happened in central harlem was failure became the norm. the schools were lousy... the healthcare was lousy... gangs were prevalent. violence was all over. families were falling apart. you can't raise children in a community like that. people had been talking about things, but not doing anything. hi, mr. canada... how are you? i'm doing great, how 'bout you? right here on 119th street. if we could fix this block, the