Unlocking Investment Potential: How Chartered Business Valuators Drive Business Success
As a business owner, you may dream of taking your business to the next level of growth and profitability but lack the necessary capital to make this happen. Alternatively, you may be looking to move on to another project or leave the demanding world of entrepreneurship altogether but want to ensure that your business is […]
Building an Investible Business: Tips for Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean
As an entrepreneur, you may reach a point where you want to raise external funding to help scale your business or decide to bootstrap with your personal funds and those of close friends and family. If you’ve chosen the former, it’s crucial to make sure that your business is one that investors are willing to […]
Why Ideas Have No Value
Transforming an idea into an asset is the key to creating valuable intellectual property. Entrepreneurs dream of business ventures that would change their lives, impact lots of people, and bring in the big bucks. Finding the right venture is a combination of understanding the market’s needs, conceptualizing an innovative solution, and being able to develop that idea into a […]
Getting Your Business Ready for Sale
Selling your business can be a great way to generate liquidity for yourself as a reward for your creativity, hard work, and perseverance to get your business to this point. The decision to sell should be a long-term strategic decision though, as opposed to a short-term reaction to negative developments. Thus, the process of preparing […]
Mistakes Companies Make When Trying to Raise Capital
Large and established companies typically have little issues in raising capital as they are highly sought after by conservative investors. Further, as previously discussed, raising funding for startups and smaller companies is primarily dictated by how much they can de-risk the opportunities for investors. Here, we want to focus on the intricacies of raising capital […]
How the Wrong Funding Decision Can Destroy the Value of Your Business
When a business’ financing requirements exceed the limits of its internal sources and cash flows from business operations are insufficient, it must then decide which type of external financing best suited to its needs. In other words, your business needs more money than you have, and it is time to find those funds to keep […]
Are You Ready to Take Your Company Public?
The time to consider taking your company public is often just as you have gotten your business to a certain level of success. Your product or service is in high demand by the customers you targeted, your team and staff are excited to be part of such a fantastic growing company, your business is featured […]
Do You Need a Business Valuation?
As we continue to grow and operate our businesses, we need to understand the levels at which our companies are increasing in value on an annual basis… It all starts with an idea, our brands, our businesses – these were mere ideas in our heads that we took the time to flesh out, structure, and […]