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Startups

7 min read

Are you ready to raise? A quick reality check

You have a product, customer base, and ambitious plans - now you just need the capital to make it happen.

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3 min read

EIS eligibility explained: do you qualify?

The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is a powerful fundraising tool for scaling startups, offering generous tax reliefs to investors who fund...

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66 Days to Success: real stories, real results

3 min read

66 Days to Success: real stories, real results

Ask most founders what stopped them from getting started sooner, and you'll rarely hear "lack of ideas". More often, it's confidence. Or isolation....

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6 min read

Understanding financial promotion: What founders need to know

When you’re raising capital, whether that’s through your pitch deck, a LinkedIn post, or even a coffee chat with an investor, you’re entering a...

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3 min read

Structuring micro rounds: How founders can raise faster and more often

Fundraising doesn’t always have to be a large all-in-one marathon. Whilst it’s easy to craft a vision of grandiose raises to fuel accelerated growth,...

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5 min read

The founder's guide to an SEIS/EIS-ready pitch deck

If you’re raising investment in the UK, it’s likely that you’ll have heard of (and want to raise through) the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme...

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3 min read

Key valuation terms you should know

As a founder, you’ve probably come across terms like “pre-money valuation” and “discounted cash flow” in conversations about your company’s worth.

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4 min read

Pre-seed financials: Setting up your startup to scale

Having a solid financial model from the get-go can really help your startup to stay on track. This doesn’t mean that everything has to go exactly how...

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founder bottleneck

3 min read

The founder bottleneck: are you slowing things down?

Founders like to move fast but ironically, they’re often the reason things grind to a halt.

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