The life of an entrepreneur may not always be easy, but plenty of us small business owners wouldn't trade what we do for a living to return to dull lives spent under staid fluorescent lighting and a maze of grey corporate cubicles for almost anything in the world.

However, sometimes the price of living out your passion comes with the cost of a cash crunch during a downtime when sales from your company are sluggish. Or, perhaps your small business income is plodding along just fine, but you're in need of extra cash in order to grow your business at a faster pace.

Entrepreneurs are simply full of cool ideas and robust ways to execute them, however, unlike other things in your life, investing in a technology business need loads of hard and cold cash. At one time, collecting this money needs loads of time in traipsing business plans to one investor after the other, expecting one would be keen enough to invest. Starting up a number of businesses including a technology business simply end up increasing the job opportunities in market. However, for the businessman starting his or her technology business, you simply end up strengthening the economy by simply creating jobs along with supporting the other businesses by procuring a number of products and forming partnerships. By leveraging some of the smarter and affordable funding options, which are discussed as under, let's check them out: