Raising Funds To Buy A Business

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Aug 24th, 2011 in Insight | 0 comments

Raising Funds To Buy A Business

For the lucky few with plenty of hard cash to spare it’s a great time to buy a business. The dearth of credit means many vendors are willing to accept lower prices than they would have before the financial crash. The rest of us – the vast majority – will have to borrow some money, probably, but not necessarily, from a bank. While banks are keeping a tight rein on the purse strings, the good news is that it’s...

Dec 15th, 2010 in Insight | 0 comments

We’ve “Evolved” To Twitter?

Throughout this year the business press have been reporting on almost daily basis about online reputation management. But how has it changed in the past ten years and have the tools you could have used, and in many cases, still use – on a budget? • 2010 – TwitterTools such as CoTweet are no invaluable to monitor specific keywords people are using on twitter. You can have seemingly endless...

Oct 22nd, 2010 in Insight | 0 comments

What is an Entrepreneur?

So what is an entrepreneur? We’ve all got our different views, but what would you say YOU’RE ‘nuts’? How about crazy, tenacious, non-compliant, never really fits in, you want to do what you want to do, make things happen, make something out of nothing, have relentless focus and energy, wants to affect change, sees a vision that’s not necessarily congruent with what the rest of the...

Oct 15th, 2010 in Insight | 0 comments

See Through The BS

One of the most important skills that an Angel Investor can have is the ability to cut through the BS and see a business with clarity. Being able to spot how the cogs work and external forces is of paramount importance to most, but especially if you’re going to invest! However entrepreneurs often complicate things or throw up smoke screens … they often do this to distract attention from inadequacies in...

Oct 13th, 2010 in Insight | 0 comments

How To Value Your Business

It’s something that seems to irritate the hell out of every one of the wad-wielding millionaires on everyone’s favourite funding pitch theatre (naming no names, but it’s on BBC2 and rhymes with “Bragons hen”) and is guaranteed to equally annoy Angel investors up and down the nation. It shows a lack of business acumen, and can even be seen as insulting (people can get rather emotional about spending their...

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