Securities attorney on investors, investing and term sheets… Jim Burk of Burk & Reedy, a Washington, DC-based law-firm who specializes in business law and financing. Jim has 40 years (!) experience in business law and business financing! He assists emerging companies in their initial stages of organization and then growing with the companies through the…
part 2 Guest article by Steve Breitman | Mindful Business Solutions In Part 1 of our discussion of Money Magnets, we listed several important things you can do to make your business more attractive to investors: * Patents/Copyrights/Trademarks * Letters of intent from prospective customers * Letters of intent with suppliers, vendors and manufacturers *…
When you’re writing your business plan, you want to make sure to highlight what sets you apart from other businesses. A good way to do this was put forward by Scott Miller, co-founder of Core Strategy Group, small business coach and co-author of the books ‘The Underdog Advantage’ and ‘Building Brandwidth.’ When writing your plan,…
by Burke Franklin, Founder and CEO, Business Power Tools For a moment, put yourself in an investor’s position (actually, do this throughout the plan writing process). What would YOU want to know about a business before you invested in it? Think about investing money in a friend’s business to get the mental, physical, emotional and…
Continued from Selling the Truth, Part 1… Excerpted from the book, Business Black Belt Like a said before, I can tell in a heartbeat now if a salesperson is coming to pitch me because he or she wants the deal or if he or she thinks they have something I could really use. Sometimes it…