How To Raise Capital Archives - The Small Business Buyer

Buy a Business With Bad Credit – A Few Things You Should Know

by Roscoe | Sep 25, 2015 | Buyout and LBO Financing, How To Raise Capital | 0 |

I have had folks ask me over the years about how to deal with bad credit when buying a business. In fact what can motivate buyers to buy a business is bad credit.

Raising Capital By Networking and Numbers

by Roscoe | May 5, 2015 | How To Raise Capital | 0 |

So I received many comments from all of you following my last couple of posts regarding raising capital. Well, they are pretty basic, like, “how do you raise capital?

Too Much Capital For Private Equity?

by Roscoe | Apr 26, 2015 | How To Raise Capital | 0 |

The theme of the Bain report is “capital superabundance”. Which actually could have been the theme going back 25 years to when private equity gained traction in the early nineties. Too much capital is always a problem, but probably never more so than now.

Raising Capital – Leveraged Buyouts vs Venture Capital

by Roscoe | Feb 10, 2015 | How To Raise Capital | 0 |

I started out doing LBO’s on an “ad hoc” basis. That is another word for “bootstrapping” which is another word for “I’m broke and don’t have access to capital”. I abhorred...

Taking on Investors To Buy A Business

by Roscoe | Feb 28, 2014 | How To Get Started In Small Business Acquisitions, How To Raise Capital | 0 |

A passive investor embodies the best of all worlds, they throw lots of money at your deal, they don’t ask for management or control, they don’t call you up all the time and demand answers. But they are exceedingly rare for the first time buyer.