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Growing a company often requires significant financing. Purchasing new equipment adding product lines, expanding the premises or raising additional working capital to fund growth are just some of the reasons why a company might want to think about putting together a proposal to obtain financing.

Your capabilities in maintaining perspective (reality vs. euphoria), balancing today's and tomorrow's needs, and coordinating resources are being tested. The original route to success works for some time, but then it stops working so well and hits diminishing returns.

If marketing is the art of understanding customer needs and then creating solutions to meet those needs at a profit; then nowhere is marketing more important for an entrepreneur than at seeking funding from investors at start up and subsequent rounds.

You are in the exciting part of the S-curve and now is time where your future market share will be determined. You need to be able to act quick and dump the (legacy) systems that hamper your ability to respond a hyper speed to new opportunities to expand your market share.

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Things to consider when buying or selling a business. If you are considering buying (or selling) your business, please have a look at this presentation on buying a business.

Innovation does not happen; it must be planned for, organised and managed. Do you:

There are a few steps you can take to help you prepare for an acquisition. The suggested steps are:

Presentations will typically have two key communication tools: the first is the entrepreneur (& a second team member) as communicators; the second is a PowerPoint presentation & presentation folder.

At pitch meetings, it is clearly important to get it right and make the favourable first impression. This cannot be done alone; it is impossible to pitch, present and listen at the same time.

If your business is growing, then managing cash flow is as critical as managing sales and expenses.

Why do strategies fall apart:

You need to specify target industries and criteria for evaluating candidates for acquisition within these industries.