Resources

Resources to help understand, obtain and manage business finance:

Business Plans
Business Plans are notoriously time consuming to prepare and have different roles for differing audiences - cut through the jargon and develop an effective plan quickly.
Negotiating with Funders
Negotiating with funders can be a 'dark art', but here's a simple table to help cut to the quick of what's negotiable and what's not with various types of lenders.
Glossary
A glossary of the principal jargon used in business finance and investment.
Venture Capital and Related Links
A list of useful links to leading venture capital firms and other websites on the things that are shaping venture investment.
Funding Technology
A series of reports on the funding of technology ventures in the UK and abroad:

  • Lessons from America (2000)
  • Israel & the Virtues of Necessity (2002)
  • Germany: Better by Design? (2003)
  • Britain Forty Years On (2006)