Selling A Business – Should You Sell Assets Or Sell Shares?
It is imperative that any business owner taking his/her business to market becomes familiar with the two ways to structure a business sale – the sale of shares & the sale of assets. Make...
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How to Sell Your Business–and Keep It, Too
Inc posts an interesting article with some real life examples and case studies of founders who sold their business but got to keep it too. When I posted an article along those lines some...
16 Rookie Errors Founders Make Pitching To VCs
And in true Buzzfeed style … I’m not so sure about #3. 🙂 #3 advises founders to not take a consultant along to the pitch. I can see the logic from the VCs point...
Can You Buy A Business With No Collateral?
While this is a US-centric article, what with its “incentivize” spelling and numerous mentions of the SBA, the question is still valid. Can you buy a business despite having no capital with which to...
6 “Must Know” Truths When Raising Capital
An excellent piece from Erica Drake about the six things you need to know when raising capital. Erica takes you through finding the investors’ sweet spot, knowing what type of finance you need, and...
Wrong Liquidation Preferences … Or How To Snatch A Loss From The Jaws Of Profit
Pawel Chudzinski, co-founder of Point Nine Capital, explains how the wrong liquidation preferences could leave you massively out of pocket. Liquidation preferences are, in short, the small print in your contract that determines how...
How To Get Part Of The £400m The UK Government Just Announced For Small Businesses
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, our fancy name for our finance minister, presented his autumn statement to Parliament today and announced £400 million of new funding for venture capital firms to invest in...
Why Venture Capitalists Prefer Missionaries to Mercenaries
If you’re looking for jokes about missionaries, you’ve come to the right page. But there’s also some shrewd and sage advice from some of the most successful venture capital investors including Mark Cuban, John...
What Makes An Investor Sign On The Dotted Line?
Whether selling all of your business or just some of the equity, what is it that really ticks all boxes for the investors you’re pitching to? Morgan Davis, co-lead of the Start-Up Investment Club,...
10 Rules For Pitching To Investors
Dr. Chris Donegan posts his best advice for entrepreneurs pitching to investors. Make it short. The initial attention span of your audience is around 90 seconds. You can extend this to 3 minutes and...
7 Cash Flow Ratios Every Investor Should Know
Whether you’re looking to sell a business or invest in one, certain key financial ratios are used to analyse the quality and financial health of the firm, its liquidity, solvency or its ability to...
Why 98% of Entrepreneurs Fail To Get The Investment They Seek
An excellent article from Arina Osiyannaya from The Business Funding Show on where the smart money and the sophisitcated investors go, the reasons why smaller businesses don’t get funding, and what you can do...
Private equity’s role in helping companies grow is often misunderstood
Andy Lyndon, Director of LDC Birmingham, presents that private equity’s role in helping companies grow is often misunderstood. He emphasises that when a PE firm takes a stake in the business they are backing...
Selling A Business? Lower Your Price To Sell For More Money
Price isn’t everything, argues Jason Fraler and goes on to explain that it’s the deal structure which determines the amount of money you make from the sale. High price gets you bragging rights, but...
Exiting Your Business Can Be Taxing
Joe Bazzano of Beacon Exit Planning LLC in the US discusses the tax implications of selling your business and explains how various decisions impact on the tax to which business owners find themselves subject....
Not all money is equal: Avoiding the toxic investor
Or why entrepreneurs should care about how Venture Capitalists choose who is investing in their funds i.e. who makes for a good L.P. (Limited Partner) and who doesn’t. Mark Suster, an entrepreneur turned VC,...
