Peter J. Burns, III
Peter J. Burns, III, the CEO of Burns Funding, recently wrote a column for the prestigious business magazine, Forbes, about the “Six Signs Your Business is Poised for Liftoff.”
With decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur, Burns, a member if the Forbes Business Council, has witnessed first-hand the tell-tail signs that a business has tremendous potential and needs growth capital.
Of course, that is where Burns Funding comes in with its ability to help entrepreneurs creatively obtain funding for their businesses.
In the article, which appears here (https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2026/03/13/six-signs-your-business-is-poised-for-liftoff/), Burns writes about the following six signs:
1. Customers Are Finding You Without You Chasing Them
2. You’re Turning Away Work (Or Delaying It)
3. Revenue Is Becoming Predictable
4. Two Products Or Services Are Clearly Working
5. Your Biggest Constraint Is Internal, Not Market-Based
6. Your Customers Are Asking For More
When those signs are present, Burns Funding (http://www.burnsfunding.com) will work with entrepreneur to creatively obtain a loan for the business using an innovative approach involving shelf corporations, or bridge funding, which can also be used as an accelerator for a business or to secure time to improve one’s credit for more traditional funding.
The approach involving shelf corporations has been very effective. By way of background, Wikipedia defines shelf corporation as an entity that “was created and left with no activity. (It was) metaphorically put on the ‘shelf’ to ‘age.’ The company can then be sold to a person or group of persons who wish to start a company without going through all the procedures of creating a new one.”
The shelf corporations can also be used, with the help of Burns Funding and its partners, to secure upwards of $2 million in alternative financing.
And it doesn’t stop there with Burns Funding’s creativity.
The company can then employ the Burns Funding Method, an innovative approach, where clients of Burns Funding remit a percentage of the loan proceeds back to Burns Funding, which, in turn, commits to servicing the loan. Burns Funding accomplishes this by deploying the capital in various passive investment programs, such as eCommerce stores, exotic car rental dealerships and short-term house rentals.
The BFM can also be used when the borrower obtains capital through bridge funding. The method was written about last year here: https://www.nationalbusinesspost.com/burns-funding-is-helping-startups-secure-capital-at-zero-interest/
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About Peter J. Burns III
Based in La Jolla, California, Peter J. Burns III grew up in a well-established New England family in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was briefly educated at the United States Military Academy Preparatory School at West Point, the University of Virginia (UVA), and finally, Harvard Business School’s Owners and Presidents Management Program. While his two younger brothers went on to have very successful traditional business careers, Burns chose the life of a startup entrepreneur.
Burns started hundreds of businesses over the ensuing decades. In the early 2000s, he moved to Arizona and became a pro bono adjunct faculty member at the highly respected Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. In 2006, Burns took his teaching practice across town to Grand Canyon University and its entrepreneurial founder Brent Richardson, where the two men would launch the nation’s first College of Entrepreneurship at GCU.
In recognition of his work, the Arizona chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America named Burns its Businessperson of the Year in 2007.
Shortly thereafter, Burns started Club Entrepreneur to unite entrepreneurs in an “open-source entrepreneurship” platform. The Phoenix chapter attracted 10,000 members.
In 2016, Burns moved to the West Coast and started Burns Funding to help entrepreneurs secure hard-to-get funding for their businesses.
Taken as a whole, Burns says all the businesses have a “common thread.”
“Every business I start represents my desire to help existing and would-be entrepreneurs reach their full potential,” said Burns. “Too often, they give up because of a lack of capital. I set out to solve that problem and won’t rest until every entrepreneur who needs money can secure it.”
This release was published on openPR.
