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...
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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,...
News: Australia Sees Launch Of Largest VC Fund
Woah, crikey, mate! AirTree Ventures just announced it has raised the largest venture fund Australia has seen to date. The fund will be split down the middle, half for an early-stage fund and half...
A Corporate Finance Trip Around The World
The corporate finance space is in flux, but how it’s changing depends on the market in which you stand. PYMNTS takes a quick trip across the globe to explore business finance trends in the...
Your business broker / advisor is making a LOT more on your deal than you think.
If you’ve hired a good business broker / investment bank you’re paying through the nose for their advice. You’re paying a retainer or advice fees and you’ll pay a hefty commission when you sell....
Supermodel Natalia Vodianova joins Disrupt in London. What further reason do you need to attend?
TechCrunch Disrupt in London is beginning to appear over the horizon. Today we’re delighted to say that we’ll also be joined by world-famous supermodel Natalia Vodianova. Last year Vodianova founded Elbi, an app which...
