Nexxus Scotland

Informing Business 

Thinking like an investor

The chances of securing investment by sending out an unsolicited business plan to every VC firm you can trace are in the same order or magnitude as those of winning the Lottery - in other words, remote.  In the case of financing your young company however, it is possible to shorten these odds substantially, by understanding how investors think, and how they find the companies in which they want to invest.   We have spoken to a range of investment managers to ask their views  .............

Case study : Through the funding maze

Equity or loans?  VCs or angels?  Licences or direct sales?  Research, or development, or research and development?  It can be difficult to know where to start when considering how to develop a new venture which has promising technology, and how to generate funds for doing so.

No two companies will be the same, but it is often helpful to track the decisions taken by others under their own specific set of circumstances, and see how these might apply elsewhere.  As an example we look at a business basd in the Norht of England, which has grown from a small venture backed by a local early stage investment fund to an AIM-listed business which is still raising funds to support its research and commercialisation activities  ....................

To read the full articles see Informing Business Summer 2010