VCs get all the headlines, but there are more financing options out there than you think

Giff Constable finance, startups

Last week I had breakfast with a founder-CEO who had been through the wringer. After spending years building a successful services business, she got squeezed out and screwed by an unscrupulous business partner. Not one to stay down, she picked herself up and started a new firm, only to be diagnosed with cancer. But she kept on fighting. She beat …