10 tips for pitching for funding

Once you have chosen your preferred method of generating funding for your business, the hard work begins: you have to sell your company to get the funding.

Alternative banks: Who are they?

There is a whole raft of new banks and related ways of raising money for your business that offer advantages over some other methods.

How to achieve business angel delight

One of the key ways many small businesses grow is through business angel investors. While larger operations have increasingly been turning to official venture capital firms, angels offer smaller start ups a lower level of funding and much more besides.

Funding your start up

The one thing all new businesses need is money. Getting things off the ground – even in your back bedroom – requires investment. And once things start to move along, you often need more cash.

Eight ways to bag a crowdfunding investor

Equity crowdfunding can give ecommerce businesses a direct way of securing the capital they need to start up or grow; by showcasing their business online to ‘armchair investors’.

Focus on funding: Alternative funding sources

Traditional money lenders are not splashing cash like they used to. According to new figures bank lending to businesses fell by £300m in the first quarter of 2013. Thankfully there are now swathes of alternative funding sources to pick up the slack.

Focus on funding: Tips for crowdfunding

When you’re getting your new business off the ground and looking for funding, crowdfunding is probably one of the options that people will recommend. It might be a fairly new concept but it’s one that has truly taken off.

Focus on funding: the options

Starting an online store is a cost-efficient way of realising your business dreams; cost efficient but by no means free. Unless you have coffers full of savings ready to plough into your new venture the chances are you’ll need to find funding to get your shop up and running.

Cost considerations for online SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises that operate online have a reduced cost structure compared to their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Despite this, it can still require a considerable amount of money to hang out a “virtual signboard” and set up shop.

eBay traders under the taxman’s spotlight

HMRC’s latest campaign troubles growth prospects of thousands of eBay sellers