This article from the New York Times Small Business section may be of interest to some of you out there, especially if you’ve used (or plan to ever use) an “Angel Investor”.

Just in case you’re unfamiliar, “Angel Investor” is a moniker for an individual (or group) who helps inject cash capital into a business during the startup period or during a significant growth period. In exchange for the capital injection, Angel Investors usually receive some share of equity ownership and/or convertible debt of some type.

What you should take away from the article: While it may be much, much harder to find an active Angel Investor right now, do know that they’re still out there. At the moment, they’re shying away from financing start-ups and waiting until the company has already proven that it can hold traction in the market.

So, if you’ve been thinking about finding an Angel Investor for your company, don’t be discouraged. Just show them a rock-solid balance sheet, a track history of great traffic, and an excellent management team.

This just in!  This article explains a new proposal on capital hill that might just save all of those small banks that predominantly finance small business startups!

From what I’ve read, any bank with a cap under $75 million will not fall under the proposed new regulations (which are vastly more harsh than current regulations).

What you should take away from this: Whether you feel that more regulation (in the grand scheme of things) is a good thing or a bad thing, this proposed ammendment to the regulation bill should keep small business lending at least as open as it is right now, and probably as open as it was pre-debt bubble.

Please feel free to chime in and let us know your thoughts on this issue! And, as usual…

… Go out there and make it happen!