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- Mergers & Acquisitions - Thinking About Selling, Part II - Working Through the Emotions by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
The closing table is no place to finally come to terms with the fact that you are about to sell your interest in a business that you may have spend years building up. It is no place to come to terms with the fact that tomorrow morning you will wake up and either have no place you have to be or nowhere near the authority over the people you built into a team. - How Joint Ventures Can Be Beneficial For Your Business by Christopher J Freville
A business enterprise of your own can be highly rewarding if you can manage it well. Proper handling of your business involves a keen attention to every detail of the same. - Can a Factoring Company Help Your Company? by Marco Terry
Does your Canadian business have cash flow problems? Read this article to learn how a factoring company can help improve the cash flow of your company. - Turnaround Engagement - Part I by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
I recently completed a turnaround engagement with a mid-market company. The effort was successful and the story of the turnaround was typical of many. My initial foray into any company identifies those threats that are likely to bring it down. - Death of the Hockey Stick by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
In my view, the correct valuation for early-stage funding is the sum of the investment plus a small amount for the founders. I then structure an earn-in program that allows the senior team to accumulate equity based on performance against pre-agreed to metrics. - Venture Financing Games by Lance Winslow
There are so many entrepreneurs who want to start businesses, but they won't get off their lazy butts to start the business until someone gives him 2 or $3 million for the venture capital. As a retired entrepreneur, who has started several businesses from scratch, literally from a "bucket of water and a sponge" into a national franchise chain cleaning cars, airplanes, and fleets of vehicles, I am often blown away by the audacity of some of these younger so-called entrepreneurs. - New Inventors and Innovators Often Greedy, Lazy, and Lacking Work Ethic by Lance Winslow
It is amazing how many innovators and inventors are busy trying to strike it rich, rather than to put in the legwork and the hard work ethic it takes to bring their products or innovation to market. One thing I have found as the coordinator for a think tank is that we are constantly learning about new concepts, ideas, and inventions. - Easy Working Capital For Any Business by Pat Gage
Creating business credit is not as simple as putting your business name on a credit application. Unless you use certain strategies when creating your business credit relationships, you will most likely be using your personal credit information. Using your personal credit for your business is not a good business practice. - Factoring Financing - An Alternative For Canadian Staffing Agencies by Marco Terry
Do you own a staffing agency in Canada? Read this article to learn if you can enhance the cash flow staffing agency with factoring financing. - A Business Cash Advance Could Be in Your Future, and Here's Why by Elle Wood
If you are in need of some funds for your business you may want to take a second look at a merchant cash advance because contrary to what many people believe a merchant cash advance is easier to secure than you may think.. - Angel's Sins by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
In this case, I am talking about early-stage investors and the sins that they sometimes commit when they decide to back a start-up company. I spend a lot of time engaged with such companies - and much of that time is spent working to set right things that were set in place when the first round of angel funding occurred. What follows is a partial list of 'sins' and a few suggestions that might both mitigate their impact and improve the investors' prospects. - Mergers & Acquisitions - Thinking About Selling - Part I - Confronting the Reasons by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
One of the most difficult decisions that a founder faces is when and to whom to sell his interest in a business - a business that he might have spent a considerable part of his adult life building. It is a decision that is often made and unmade many times along the way. Frequently and after much work and discussion, a founder will end up deciding not to sell. The result is lost time, resources and reputation. - The Worth and the Work For Venture Capital by Debra Trotter
Venture capital is a type of capital that goes to startups and new companies that are expected and hoped to break through and generate large profit. Venture capitals are made by exchanging cash for shares of the company's stocks. - Offering Circular - The Anatomy of an Offering Circular by James B Scott
If you are going to start raising capital for your start-up or established business you've most likely been advised to have a Private Placement Memorandum written for your company so you don't get in trouble with the SEC for selling securities without the proper structure. The Offering Circular section of your document is crucial. - Turnaround Management - Initial Steps by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
No company plans to fail or to find its way into difficult situations - but it happens all the time. Over the years, I have worked with a range of companies that were facing the need to turn things around. The paths that they traveled to reach such a desperate condition were varied but the best ways out had a lot in common. - Red Teaming - Improve Your Chances of Getting Funded by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
Recently I sat in on a presentation that two founders of a technology start-up made to a front-line venture capitalist. What was most striking about the experience was that, from one point of view, the founders seemed very well prepared. Their presentation was polished and contained all the usual sections, their slide show was professional quality, and they spoke with passion and deep knowledge about their space. The materials which they provided were all neatly and professionally packaged. - Angel Investing - Hard Choices Or Hard Times by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
I have listened to many tales of woe from investors - some that are just tales of loss while others end with an invitation to 'get involved' in an effort to salvage what can be of a lost situation.These latter invitations are most often too hard on the digestion with too little to show for the effort. Treating sick puppies may be necessary but such work should be more about preventive approaches. - The Power of Your Win Win Situation in Joint Venture Partnerships by Carol Harridge
Go For Your Win-Win Situation Of Joint Venture Partnerships, Your First Steps In Understanding Their Power. You have almost certainly heard of stories whereby people have gone from barely getting by financially to, almost seemingly overnight, having become quite wealthy indeed. - Venture Capitalists Do Not Know How to Approach Real Entrepreneurs by Lance Winslow
It is amazing the amount of advice that is given to entrepreneurs on how to approach venture capitalists. In fact, some venture capitalists actually put out booklets, and do seminars to teach people how to approach them, because supposedly they are so busy they don't have time to talk to anyone until they have the next iPhone invention patent sitting in their hip pocket. Sometimes, I laugh at how the venture capitalists have proclaimed themselves God, and how the entrepreneurs, the great people who built this nation are somehow second rate and beholden to their whims. - Financial Strategies - Some Basic Rules by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
In this article I would like to discuss ways to meet the financing needs of a growing company. Let's start from this point: The CEO's principal contribution to the process is to make sure that the correct financing strategies are in place and well focused. - How to Not Leave Money on the Table When Raising Equity by Nick Jevic
There you are, you're drafting the term sheet for your private placement memorandum and you come to the warrant section. You know, that part of an equity security offering that states how much of the equity you're willing to part with. You can't just throw out a number - "20%", "40%", "anything under 50%". If you offer too little in warrants, your prospective investors will never become your investors; the return is not sufficient to compensate for the risk. Offer too much, and yes, you'll get investors, but at the expense of leaving money on the table. It needs to be a win-win. That's great, but how do you figure it out? - How to Value an Emerging Business to Raise Venture Capital in Today's Economy by Edward Alexander
When you're looking to raise capital for an emerging business by selling stock or other securities (i.e., equity financing) to venture capital or angel investors, the value of your business will determine how much stock you have to sell to get the cash you need. The higher the value of your business, the less stock you have to sell to get your business funding. - The Factoring Option - Learn How Invoice Factoring Works by Marco Terry
Invoice factoring is quickly becoming a mainstream business financing tool that being used by small, medium and large sized businesses. It has been gaining traction in part because banks have tightened their lending standards, leading company managers to look for business financing elsewhere. - Joint Venture Real Estate Projects by Jessica M John
The thought of a Joint Venture attracts a wide range of people. There are no perfect reason that why people like to enter in to it. People think that getting in to real estate development joint venture will have a good pay back. - Angel Investing - The 'Elevator Speech' Antidote by Dr. Earl R. Smith II
Listening to the delivery of an elevator speech is the single most distracting event in an investor's journey. It is to that point in time - the equivalent of 'love at first sight' - that most of the subsequent failures can be traced. An elevator speech is an advertising undertaking. It is an attempt to draw in a potential investor and get them interested in providing funding for a venture. It the starkest terms, it is a money trap. - Option Trading Basics - Option Trading Made Easy by Carolyn Anderson
Option trading is another investment vehicle that can give you large returns when practiced carefully. To start learning some option trading basics, you must first know what options are and how option trading works. - How to Use Freight Bill Factoring to Finance Your Trucking Company by Marco Terry
Do you own a transportation company and need financing? Read this article to learn about freight bill factoring, a transportation specific form of financing. - Business Plan For Joint Ventures by Christopher J Freville
Every business should be started with a plan. A plan provides a guideline for the business people involved to proceed in the right direction, and these guidelines form the foundation of the plan. - Home Based Business - Brick and Mortar Business Start Up Cost Comparison by P. Gonzalez
A great concern for many entrepreneurs looking to begin their business ventures is the initial start up cost and the fear of not having a return on their investment. What many entrepreneurs do not have an understanding of is the ability to know what the ARI (Average Return on Investment) will be on a home based business compared to a traditional brick and mortar business. - How to Finance a Manufacturing Company With Invoice Factoring by Marco Terry
Financing any business in the current credit environment is extremely difficult. Banks and many financial institutions are retrenching their credit facilities, forcing companies to look for financing elsewhere. One of the business sectors that has been hit the hardest is manufacturing.
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