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 […]
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 […]
How to De-Risk Your Startup for Investors
In the last article, I detailed my first experience of being denied funding. My business partner and I tried to pitch and raise capital for our own tech startup and were unable to convince the investor to say yes, despite our research, passion, and best efforts. We failed to secure the funding because we did not sufficiently […]
Failing to Raise Money Can be the Greatest Thing That Ever Happened
Every business starts with an idea. Even the greatest idea can remain undeveloped without the money to make it happen. If you have ever taken the time to develop a business plan, perfect your pitch, and deliver it to investors, there is only one desired outcome: to win the investment. I started off my career […]
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 […]