Preparing your business for investors

Business owners often view investors as an alternative to bank finance. In most cases entrepreneurs would seek to raise external equity because they are running out of cash and were turned down by a bank. The only message that investors would receive is that the entrepreneur lost control of their business regardless of how you dress the situation up. If you were an investor, would you want to put your hard-earned cash and invest significant amount of time in such a venture?

So, when is the right time to start raising external equity? And what can one do to ensure that the business is ready to attract and secure investors?

Succession Planning: Business owners favour MBO as means of selling business

Whilst the economy continues to wobble with an increasing number of vendors struggling to find trade buyers for their ventures, more and more business owners are considering management buyouts (MBOs) as an option of selling their businesses.

Know The Value of Your Business

We, as well as our businesses, are all different. We are at different points of our lives and our respective businesses are at different stages of business life cycle. We all, however, have one thing in common. At some stage of our lives we will look to retire. Some of us will retire sooner than others, of course depending on how well the business is doing as well as how long we intend to stay in business, what we want to do with it and, if we sell it, how much we will get for it.