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Venture Capital is one of the most important aspects of the entrepreneurship process, but often times we’ve found that entrepreneurs don’t completely understand how it works. Here’s a short, but useful guide to venture capital so that you’ll be prepared. So What Exactly is Venture Capital? Venture capital is an essential source of money to startups, an investment which can ...

When you need to raise capital it can be all too tempting to think your business is so great that investors should just throw money at you. Founders have even approached me in the past with such sentiment: “Can’t you just bring in a rich person to see our facility? They’ll see what we’ve achieved without funding and surely they’ll ...

He’s on board. He’s interested. Should you be interested in him? Have you found a Unicorn Investor? The one who has the knowledge, experience and time enhance your business as well as money? How can you find out? Read on… Have you ever heard that the right investor can accelerate your business through start-up to profit making? Yes, it is ...

  The evidence of the value of women-led businesses is overwhelming.  Women-led businesses perform better in terms of profit, return on equity, and productivity.  They have greater growth potential, and they grow faster than their male-led equivalents.  And they are more likely to operate efficiently. Yet when it comes to big business, there are fewer Australian companies that are run ...

A key item on any investor’s check list is “Intellectual Property Protection”. What they are looking for is evidence that you have a protected asset that gives you a monopoly on your invention so that you can exploit your idea and get ahead of your competition. Note that an invention must be both novel (i.e. new) and have an inventive ...