Get the Funding for Your Business

Friday, September 19, 2008 11:51
Posted in category entrepreneur

For all the small new business, after making a good clear business plan, the most important thing for the entrepreneurs will be to get funding for their new business idea. Getting the right type of start-up funding, that suits the eligibility and requirement of your business, can make a great difference to the success of the business growth.
The most suitable choice of funding will be largely depended on the nature of the business project, amount of money required, market characteristics, business growth ambitions, size as well as timing of business cash flow and stage of business growth. Usually, for small businesses, there are three sources of funding, which are also called as 3 Fs: friend, family, and fool.
Besides, there are also other choices for the entrepreneurs seeking business investment with brilliant ideas, like taking part in some popular programs to win the investment directly from the game sponsors. The famous entrepreneur competition of Dragons Den, Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition, MIT Entrepreneurship Competition, and series of other kinds of business plan competition are all good examples.
Loans and equity are not the usual option for most starting small business till they got into more mature stage of business development. Cite the development of Firefly Tonics for example; the original funding the company needed was raised initially from a family member and a family friend. After all these years of steady expansion into success, bank finance is now used by the company as well, but still not in large quantities.

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2 Responses to “Get the Funding for Your Business”

  1. Johnny Bethel says:

    February 21st, 2009 at 12:41 pm

    Very good. I have bookmarked this.

  2. Paul Nolan says:

    February 21st, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    I have just forwarded this to a few colleagues. Good article.

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