These are a few ways of generating money for your business.
Competitions:
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University of Bristol New Enterprise Competition
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Shell LiveWIRE Awards
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Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards
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University of Bristol 'Give it a Go' fund
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CrowdfundingMany start-up businesses are looking to crowdfunding as a route to raising initial capital for their business/project. The idea is that you can collectively source funds from friends, families and supporters online (often in return of a gift and sometimes in return for equity).
This is a fairly recent trend, but techniques for effective crowdfunding campaigns are now being shared. Here is a brief guide, explaining the crowdfunding processes, and provide the basic structure and advice to get you started: http://spsr.me/crowdfunding-handbook. Planning to crowdfund? Here are a few sites that we would recommend:
Venture Capital (and other funding sources)Beer & Partners – the most successful and active firm of Private Equity Advisors in the UK. They access a wide range of investors – institutional and private – for clients seeking venture capital.
BVCA – British Venture Capital Association – represents venture capital and private equity in the UK EVCA – European Venture Capital Association Catalyst Venture Partners – Bath based partnership helping companies to start, grow and develop. They specialise in technology and media sectors First Tuesday West – the West of England branch of the world’s largest meeting place for high tech entrepreneurs Investors Chronicle Online NESTA – National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts – the UK’s first national endowment fund set up with £200m of Lottery money Private Equity Online – the destination website for Europe’s private equity investors for news and intelligence Recombinant Capital Venture Capital Access Online – US site Venture Capital Online – US site Venturefest – Oxford’s international fair for entrepreneurs and venture capital The Wyvern Seedcorn Fund – the joint University of Bristol and Southampton Seedcorn Fund
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