Name: External Funding: Methods and sources of capital to fund your business
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Category: All Learners
Duration: 2.00 hour(s)
Individual Fee: Free

When internal bootstrapping measures have run out, you need to look at your external funding options. Realize that some options are easier, or more likely to succeed, than others. You will need to assess what is available to you, and makes the best fit for your business.

Learn about:

  • Loans from Commercial-Rate Lenders
  • Loans from Motivated(High-Cost) Lenders
  • Loans or Investments from Family/Friends/Fools and Trade Credit
  • Owner Loans/Retained Earnings/Owners Equity Investments (when the business is generating a positive cash flow
  • Owner Capital (personal savings, home equity credit line, etc.)
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Illinois SBDC at the College of Lake County
19351 W. Washington St.
Grayslake, IL 60030
United States
Know and Explain: Information you will know, be able to explain, or be able to find.

Learn and understand your external funding options: 

  1. Persona and outside Equity 
  2. Direct Public Offerings 
  3. Equity Crowdfunding
  4. Angel Investors
  5. Angel Networks and Angel Funds
  6. Venture Capital 
  7. Gift Capital 
  8. Bank Loans 
  9. SBA Loans

SkillPrerequisiteExpected Outcome
Money Management1 - BeginnerNot specified
Class Costs
Class Value$25.00
Individual Fee$0.00
Private Class Fee$0.00
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