Richard Branson’s Top 5 Pitching Tips

Below are Richard Branson’s top five pitching tips, we’d love to know what your top tips for pitching would be. Do you have any golden nuggets of wisdom that could help other entrepreneurs when pitching for funding? Let us know your thoughts! 1. Explain how the new business will make a difference to customers and provide a compelling alternative to competitors. This means showing a new way of doing things...

How to find funding and grow your business in 2013

The last few years have been gloomy for start-ups to say the least, with little recovery for the economy and the Bank’s purse strings remaining tightly closed, it has left many small businesses struggling to find the funding they so desperately need. So what is the answer? Many businesses have turned to angel finance and found it ready, willing and able to help them. Angels Den is passionate that every business...

Top 5 Reasons For Starting A Business

Ask any entrepreneur why they decided to invest such a huge chunk of their lives setting up their own business, when they could have been relaxing in a relatively easy-going middle management position for Nameless PLC, and they will know with crystal clarity the answer to your question. Whether or not they’d be prepared to tell you is another matter entirely, but I can assure you they’ll know. Starting your own...

Networking Tips For The Entrepreneur Who’s Pressed For Time

If you have the typical characteristics of an entrepreneur, this article is likely to find you chained to your desk because you’ve got far more things to do in the day than there are hours to do them in. We’ve all been there – the launching of a new venture forces all other things to take a back-seat. Before long, you realise that you’ve not seen the wife and kids for several days, you’ve no idea whether...

Are You Cut Out To Be A Business Angel?

Financial Angels, aka business Angels, provide much-needed funding to entrepreneurs and small business owners, assisting them in establishing or growing their business. While business Angel funding is not yet being used to its fullest potential, increasing numbers of entrepreneurs are turning to these financial Angels for funding, particularly in this time of low bank lending and economic recovery. If you have...