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Alternative funding not so offbeat as 60% of small firms look to crowdfunding

Ask businesses about their problems and the big issue stopping many in their tracks is funding.

Major complaints include a lack of flexibility from banks, the length of the loan application process - which means those that aren't successful often spend many wasted months in limbo - and a shallow funding pot.

- December 31, 2013

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