Category: Capital Raising
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Capital Raising Case Study: Creating a Timing Premium
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Issue Many companies approach capital raising as though it were an event that happens when the company needs money. The company prepares a business plan, appoints advisers, approaches investors, negotiates valuation, and attempts to close the transaction. But capital markets…
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Replace People with Systems: Reduce Irreplaceability Before You Sell Your Company
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience; Leadership, People and Organizational Excellence Focus Area: Capital Raising; Organizational Design and Governance Key Article Point An SME often begins its business lifecycle with a remarkable concentration of capability in a few people—usually the founder and perhaps one or two key employees. That concentration can…
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Capital Raising Case Study: Proving That Your Company Is Less Risky Than Your Market
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Issue How can an SME operating in a high-risk jurisdiction demonstrate to international investors that its actual business risk is materially lower than the risk of the market in which it operates? MedTech Solutions was a successful healthcare technology and…
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Defend Your Valuation: Show Investors Why Your SME Is Less Risky Than Its Market
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Article Point For an SME operating in an emerging market, raising international capital can create a challenging valuation problem. An investor may look at the company and see an attractive business with strong growth potential. But before analyzing the company…
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Capital Raising Case Study: Using a Commercial Triangle to Unlock Growth Capital
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Issue TerraHarvest Foods was a 120-person agricultural producer and processor supplying specialty food ingredients to food manufacturers and distributors. The company had developed a strong position in its domestic market and had identified a significant international growth opportunity. Several large…
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Build a Capital-Raising Triangle: Turn Commercial Relationships into Investment Leverage
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Article Point Many businesses looking for growth capital make the same basic assumption: if their business plan is attractive enough, an investor will provide the money needed to execute it. In practice, this is often not how capital raising works.…
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Build Investor Trust Before You Ask for Capital: The Five Levels of Investor Confidence
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Article Point Raising capital is often presented as a relatively straightforward exercise in financial persuasion. The company prepares a business plan. It develops financial projections. It identifies a compelling market opportunity. Management meets investors and explains why the company is…
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Build Investor Confidence: How to Present Financial Forecasts That Can Survive Scrutiny
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Article Point Financial forecasts are among the most important—and most difficult—parts of a capital-raising process. They are important because investors are ultimately trying to understand a simple question: If we invest capital in this company today, what could this business…
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A Strategic Framework for Defining Use of Funds When Raising Capital
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Article Point Every capital raise begins with a seemingly simple question: How much money are we seeking? Yet this question is often given surprisingly little analytical attention. Entrepreneurs may spend weeks or months refining their Information Memorandum, improving their pitch…
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Turn Your Fundraising Pitch into a Compelling Investor Story: Using the Hero’s Journey to Raise Capital
🧭 Dojo Compass Module: Finance, Risk Management and Long-Term Resilience Focus Area: Capital Raising Key Article Point: Investors rarely invest because of data alone. They invest because they believe in a future—and in the people capable of creating it. This article explores how entrepreneurs can use the timeless structure of the Hero’s Journey to transform…