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Investors in Your Backyard: How to Raise Business Capital from the People You Know

by Asheesh Advani

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ISBN13: 9781413304206
ISBN10: 1413304206
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Everything you need to create a compelling deal Your business is your future, whether you're starting up or expanding — but banks and other lending institutions aren't willing to invest in your unproven venture. The solution? Friends, family and private investors. With Investors in Your Backyard, you get the information, documents and calculators you need to create a solid agreement that works for everyone. Let it take you through the entire process of raising business capital — from developing and pitching a financing plan, to signing the paperwork. The included CD-ROM provides a loan request letter, promissory notes, letters of intent, stock purchase agreement, loan repayment calculators and more Written by Asheesh Advani, whose proven methods for raising business capital have made him a pioneer in small business financing. His company, CircleLending, has set up and managed loans between thousands of relatives, friends and business associates nationwide.

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In this book/CD-ROM package, Advani, founder and CEO of a loan administration company, provides information, documents, calculations, and step-by-step instructions on raising business capital, such as gifts, loans, and equity investments, from friends, family, and other private parties. Appendices contain 27 pages of forms and worksheets, lists of online business planning, loan, and equity resources, and 75 pages of sample equity investing documents. The CD-ROM contains forms and worksheets from the book.
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In this book/CD-ROM package, Advani, founder and CEO of a loan administration company, provides information, documents, calculations, and step-by-step instructions on raising business capital, such as gifts, loans, and equity investments, from friends, family, and other private parties. Appendices contain 27 pages of forms and worksheets, lists of online business planning, loan, and equity resources, and 75 pages of sample equity investing documents. The CD-ROM contains forms and worksheets from the book. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Whether your business is just an idea, a business plan or is actually up and earning cold, hard cash, there are three things you should do before you start asking people for money.

- Take stock of your options for start up financing.

- Check to make sure the legal structure of your business fits.

- Assemble an effective team of professionals.

Once you've set the stage by reviewing these three areas, you'll be ready to start asking people you know for money for your start-up business.

Synopsis:

This volume shows readers how to request and secure business loans and investments from family, friends, and other individuals who want to get behind a good idea. It provides handy templates of forms and calculators on CD-ROM.
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William Keyser, February 21, 2007 (view all comments by William Keyser)
Contrary to popular belief, business startups are almost never financed by venture capitalists. It is only a very tiny minority who get such funding, and then they are probably either hi-tech or likely to grow to a value of tens of millions of dollars or more in 3-5 years—or both. The vast majority of entrepreneurs starts their business with their savings and help from their family and friends. Unwise ones use their credit cards and rack up high interest costs.

This book is about the process of raising loans and equity capital from the people you know. Actually it is mostly about the former. Sadly many people, both borrowers and lenders do not take an organized approach to the transaction and risk ending up in all kinds of disputes and relationship breakdowns. The author of the book, Asheesh Advani takes the reader through the process step by step—from fundraising to signing the check. Even though you may be borrowing from a close relative, or particularly when you are doing so, you are well advised to document the deal.

At the very least, Advani points out, the parties should sign a promissory note that records the amount, conditions and repayment schedule for the loan. But before you get that far, it is important to decide what business structure you want to adopt, given the special circumstances of your enterprise. Then you need to be clear about the differences between a gift, a loan and equity, because very often one of the parties may be thinking that the money they provided was one of these and the borrower may have assumed something different.

When you seek business finance from a source other than an institution, you may not necessarily produce a full-blown business plan, but it would be a grave mistake not to have a plan of some sort and to be able to make a presentation of it, whether it is what Advani calls a "Kitchen Table Pitch" or something more elaborate. Even Aunt Ada should have an understanding of what your business is about and where it is going.

If it was a gift, then there are some serious tax implications; if it was a loan, then there are repayments; if equity is involved, then part of the business will be changing hands. In any of the three cases and however close you are to the family member or friend, it is as well for the mutual expectations to be crystal clear. "Investors in Your Backyard" is a practical book that deals with a very cloudy, but frequent business transaction. It is amazing that it has only just been published.

Legal or accountancy advice is often recommended for loan and equity deals with family and friends, but it is by no means necessary, especially where the deals are straightforward. The advantage of this book is that it has basic forms for all the necessary paperwork, both in printed and CD-ROM format. Given that Advani is the founder of circlelending.com, he really knows what he is talking about. His company can play the role of independent manager of loans between relatives, friends and business associates, if you prefer to increase the arms-length nature of a deal.

I am in the business of providing such loans within my community and I believe that "Investors in Your Backyard" is required reading for anyone seeking a loan of this type, anywhere. Even for those who are just thinking about setting up in business, rather than necessarily taking the leap, this book will be of enormous help in structuring their thinking about entrepreneurial finance. At $24.99, WorkSavvy rates this as probably the wisest investment they can make.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781413304206
Subtitle:
How to Raise Business Capital from the People You Know [With CD ROM]
Author:
Advani, Asheesh
Author:
Advanti, Asheesh
Publisher:
NOLO
Subject:
Small Business
Subject:
Small Business - Capital Generation
Subject:
Business enterprises
Subject:
Fund raising
Subject:
Business enterprises -- Finance.
Series:
Business Loans from Family & Friends: How to Ask, Make It Legal & Make It Work
Publication Date:
February 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
426
Dimensions:
8.88x7.04x1.00 in. 1.59 lbs.
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