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In practice, it is not easy to acquire a substantial investment in your venture when assets are lacking. You desperately need funds to finance your growth plans, to expand, or sometimes even to survive. How to act? How to raise your chances of acquiring finance? Get ‘Investor-Ready’!

Later on in the process, your focus must shift to the details and how you present yourselves and perform as a team. It’s like singing in a choir. Everything comes together: the team, the content, and the presentation.

The investor casino, a 1% chance to get funded.

As banks become more and more strict and reduce their risk portfolio you have to find money with risk investors for example Business Angels or Venture Capitalists.

On average only around 3% of the business plans that investors receive are considered of such quality that the company owners are invited to present their plans. And it gets worse.

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The aim of valuation is to determine what a firm is worth. Value is determined based on historical and future financial parameters. Determination of firm value is a highly subjective exercise that calls for judgment.

It changes and varies when business drivers and factors (both internal and external) change as well as when the environmental conditions like we’ve seen in Brooklyn, change. Since value estimation is subjective, it often serves as a basis for discussions. Moreover, there are many aspects of a business that is hard to quantify such as consumer behavior.

Two perspectives
Companies can be valued from two perspectives: from looking at the inside of the firms -internal- or from the expectations of the market -external-. The internal methods estimate the value of all the future potential cash flows generated by the company. Therefore it relies on methods based on the concept of discounted cash flows (DCF).

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Crowdfunding by definition is “the process of financing activity or endeavor by way of generating lots of modest sums of capital from a huge number of persons, generally by using the Internet”.

Nowadays, start-ups are under huge pressure to remain profitable, and business owners are not going through the best of times when it comes to making any profits, so it seems.

Crowdfunding creates a good possibility for success for this kind of entrepreneur and business, by displaying their initiatives and assignments to the whole global community, and let’s not forget that through online education, lots of things in the process, becoming invisible.

The infographic shown below, designed by Eventstir events crowdfunding service, gives an excellent review of the global crowdfunding arena. It includes broad subject areas, such as the total amount of funds generated and platform explanation by region, along with specific parts of the world, together with the greatest platforms and ventures.

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It’s possible to boost your personal brand by establishing a reputation as an expert in your niche. Experts are sought after, they get noticed, they can command higher fees for their services, and they get interviewed by journalists. In brief, becoming a recognized expert can help you achieve your business goals using less effort.

Until recently, becoming a recognized expert took decades and only the MBA degree or the academic degree granted the status of the expert but today even if you got your diploma through online classes you can be easily perceived as the expert. Showcase your knowledge in online and offline events, choose the right strategy, and start your journey towards becoming a recognized expert using online marketing and social media.

Just say you want to be known as the expert on cutting machines then you should: 

• Write articles about your niche and publish them on your website and blog. Your website is the virtual headquarters of your business. Every promotion leads to your website, so make sure your articles are visible and easy to find.

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. How much I loved school. How much I miss it. What I’d do differently if I were to do it again.

• Would I put more effort into my final year?
• Would I plan my career?
• Would I listen to my parents’ advice or my own?
• Would I… would I… would I…?

I don’t regret anything. I try not to regret anything, with my life’s motto being “Never regret something that once made you smile” – and school certainly made me smile. Without a doubt. It was the happiest time of my life. Sure, it didn’t feel like it at the time.

I’d love to go back, even for just one day. I’d love to have that feeling of knowing my work was good. Getting good grades was my main aim in school and I did.

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