Issue Season
Fall
Document Type
From the Practitioner's Corner
Abstract
Most entrepreneurs are continually concerned about their finances. Their companies perhaps not yet profitable, they may have a fear of “running out of dry powder.” These entrepreneurs often have fallen in love with their company’s technologies, products, and potential markets, but they require more resources. Invariably these emerging ventures shroud their fear of the grueling capital raising marathon by presenting voluminous business plans to potential investors. They often flaunt their “optimized business models.” Investors, however, typically want to know why the potential investment is such a good deal. The entrepreneur often wants guidance regarding what to say to whom in a changing financing environment.
In this article, our “Practitioner’s Corner” associate editor Joe Levangie collaborates with a long-time colleague Paul Broude to address how businesses should “make their capital-raising initiatives happen.” Levangie, a venture advisor and entrepreneur, first worked with Broude, a business and securities attorney, in 1985 when they went to London to pursue financing for an American startup. They successfully survived all-night drafting sessions, late-night clubbing by the company founder, and even skeet shooting and barbequing at the investment banker’s country house to achieve the first “Greenfield” flotation by an American company on the Unlisted Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange. To ascertain how the entrepreneur can determine what financing options exist in today’s investing climate, read on.
Recommended Citation
Broude, Paul and Levangie, Joseph E.
(2006)
"Entrepreneurial Financing—Alternatives for Raising Capital,"
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship: Vol. 9:
No.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/neje/vol9/iss2/8
Included in
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Commons, Finance and Financial Management Commons
