Beyond the Banks Creative Financing for Canadian Entrepreneurs

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Finding financing can be the most challenging and frustrating part of your business. Whether you're an entrepreneur just starting out on your own, or a medium-sized business looking to expand significantly, you need to raise financing, but don't always know where to turn. Beyond the Banks: Creative Financing for Canadian Entrepreneurs is a practical guide to obtaining capital not only from the big banks, but also from other little-known sources. Beyond the Banks arms readers with hard-to-find information on: what's available, including: partners and business "angels," personal assets and "love money," suppliers and customers, venture capital, and the ultimate- raising capital by going public how and where to find the capital you need, from new bank programs to community networking what investors are looking for in a business, and how they make decisions how to deal with different types of investors, and your obligations to them practical tips and real-life stories of Canadian entrepreneurs PROFIT: The Magazine for Canadian Entrepreneurs is Canada's only national magazine written specifically for the most dynamic sector of the economy: small and medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs.