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The Budget helps business to raise finance

The Budget is all about beer, cigarettes and petrol, right? Wrong! It’s about juggling sensitive fiscal and monetary policy to hang on to power at the next election, right? Well…..maybe. But let’s skip the politics and recognise that this budget is providing a huge boost to businesses, especially the smaller, high growth businesses that provide much of the excitement in the economy and create most new jobs.

April 12, 2011
| Paul Anson | Business Finance, Pitching, St John's Innovation Centre | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment

Plastic Logic: Who – Whom?

SJIC’s Managing Director David Gill, provides an insightful thought piece looking at this week’s $700m investment in Plastic Logic…

January 20, 2011
| David Gill | Business Finance | Tags: , , | Add a Comment

Business Plans – Time for some heavy lifting?

There must be a business plan writing guide floating around that says “Investors will only look at a business if it has a really long business plan. Make sure you repeat points again and again to drive the message home. Your business is complex so make sure you use long sentences and clever sounding words to get this across. Don’t use illustrations to explain concepts; leave that to school projects. Expansive and complex paragraphs work best and demonstrate your intelligence. Nothing less than 50 pages will ever get their attention.â€

November 10, 2010
| Paul Anson | Business Finance, Pitching, St John's Innovation Centre | Tags: , , | 3 Comments

The disconnect between investors and entrepreneurs

If you’ve ever watched Dragons’ Den, or been to ‘real life’ investment events that follow a similar model of pitching to a panel or a roomful of investors, you’ll know there is often a great chasm between what an entrepreneur thinks an investor wants to see or hear in a pitch, and the information that an investor is actually looking for.

September 30, 2010
| Andrea Cockerton | Business Finance, Pitching | Tags: , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Showing us the Money

In my previous post, I mentioned that a number of companies pitched to our panel of angel investors at ‘Meerkats and Avatars’. Discussions are ongoing so it’s too early to pronounce judgement on the outcome but suffice to say…

September 22, 2010
| David Gill | Business Finance, Pitching, St John's Innovation Centre | Tags: , , , , , | Add a Comment