Posts Tagged ‘ investor ’

On Startup Finance

Startups risk failure by ignoring business basics According to a recent survey by Simply Business, weak financial management, an absence of basic business planning, uninformed decision-making and inadequate contracts impose the greatest risk for early stage businesses. It seems that many startup businesses have become so focused on working in the business that their time [ READ MORE ]

The Future of Startup Funding

I run a FastTrack meetup event in June on The Future of Startup Funding, where we were very lucky to have experts from all key areas of business funding: banks, investors, incubators and crowd funding.   In the present economic environment, raising finance is extremely challenging  for small companies that cannot promise rocket propelled growth rates and need modest sums (it [ READ MORE ]

Why a woman investor in your business could be very good news

In 2004, Digitallook.com analysed over 100,000 UK investment portfolios and found that women investors’ portfolios tend to outperform the market.  They concluded that women’s success was due to in part to their more balanced portfolios and in part to their sector choice that favours leisure, food and drink, and utility firms.  In contrast, men seem [ READ MORE ]

What Angel Investors Want?

We had a great end-of-year event at the FastTrack meetup (1) with a panel of very accomplished angel investors. It was great to have three angels answering the same question as it highlighted just how much personal experience and individual approach they bring to any venture they get involved in. If anyone ever doubted the [ READ MORE ]

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