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Financing Your Business
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Obtaining capital is necessary for many new and growing businesses. This section focuses on how to develop a financing plan to attract angels and venture capitalists, how to present your company to investors, how to value a business and how to prepare your company to go public when the time is right.
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Growing with Partners and Investors
The purpose of this tool is to explore the issues facing a small business when management decides to expand an existing business using partners, private placements, venture capital or other outside investors.

Valuing Your Business
If you're thinking of purchasing or selling an existing business, going public, or taking an investor, one of the first things you'll need to determine is how much the business is worth. Valuing a business is a tricky process and achieving fair market value should always be your top priority

Prepare a Business Plan
The importance of planning should never be overlooked.. Taking time to create an extensive business plan provides you with insight into your business. This document can serve as a powerful financing proposal. This tool takes you through the step-by-step process of developing a business plan

How to Present Your Company To Investors
This tool will assist you in deciding how to go about selling an equity interest in your business to investors and raise the capital you seek. It discusses the essential issues that you may confront when you decide to bring in outside investors.

More Reading:
    Strong Management Team is Key
    Working With Corporate Venture Investors
    Financing: Round Two

Preparing Your Company to go Public
Completing an initial public offering (IPO) is tough, expensive and complex. It can also be mysterious and confusing because it involves the disciplines of accounting, financial reporting and security law, and the average entrepreneur usually does not have expertise in these areas.

More Reading:
    Hell No, We Won't IPO
    The Ups and Downs of an Internet Public Offering
    Public Companies Must Disclose Everything