One of the major reasons that acquisitions fail…
I have been doing some work recently to try to segment the UK technology market in order to help identify…
This is a brief Six Minute Strategist introduction to the objectives behind preparing a financial model for a funding round.…
Further to my post last week, here is the Pencast of How to Turn your Great Idea into a Business…
Working on the buyside of a deal involves being able to segment markets and identify targets. In order to do this effectively, it is important to identify as many of the companies that meet your defined target market and then eliminate those that do not meet the criteria. This is where it is crucial to have deep market knowledge and expertise.
I was speaking to a local entrepreneur this week who asked me about how to put a business plan together. He had seen a market opportunity but did not know how to translate this into a form which he could then take to investors. We spoke for around half an hour and at the end he told me he had learned more in that time than with three major sessions with his accountant.
Why is the business lifecycle important? On my blog site I have focused on six specific stages in the business…
The Six Minute Strategist Blog has been up and running now for over six months and I have been watching with interest the reception and interest in the content I am creating.
I have learned a lot from your comments and reactions to my posts and have reorganised my website accordingly. I thought I would share these lessons with you.
This is a new brief series of brief insights from the Six Minute Strategist Blog which aims to give you an under the skin understanding of Venture Capital Finance. This is about listening to what the VCs are NOT saying and learning to think the way they think. I shall publish these periodically and would be interested to get feed back as to whether these insights are helpful.
The launch of the Six Minute Strategist Blog has been a real learning curve. Having tackled WordPress (really quite user friendly), I have now been turning my attention to Search Engine Optimisation in order to improve my own web ranking, that of my company IAF Capital and in due course, that of my clients.
