Steve Anderson, Marquis Advisory Group's Managing Partner has been asked to write a series of articles for the award winning Australian Anthill Business Magazine over the next few months.
We will post exerts from the articles here when they appear but please follow the links to read the complete informative articles on the Australian Anthill website.
About Australian Anthill - "In 2005, Anthill won the Australian Publishers Association Bell Award
for Best Small Publisher, for the second year running."
Sequencing Investments: A Lego block approach to funding
October 2, 2009 | By Steve Anderson
The Lego
story began in 1916 in Denmark with a carpenter, Ole Kirk Christiansen. Today,
an estimated 50 million children play all over the world with the locking Lego
blocks. How is it relevant to today?
It makes
sense to build a company's investment plan that has the interlocking qualities
of Lego pieces, tightly fit, all supporting and connected to each other.
Preparing for US venture capital: Due diligence is a two-way
street
September 14, 2009 | By Steve Anderson
In part five of our series on the capital raising cultures
in Australia and the US, San Francisco-based Steve Anderson explores how
Australian entrepreneurs can best prepare for securing US venture capital.
The US venture community - worth approximately US$2 billion
- is very small compared to private equity and miniscule when compared to the
trillion dollar hedge fund industry. But it is a very important capital source
for new businesses, which create new taxable revenue and new jobs.
When seeking investment, preparation is everything
September
7, 2009 | By Steve Anderson
In part four of our series on the capital raising cultures
in Australia and the US, San Francisco-based Steve Anderson explores how
Australian and New Zealand entrepreneurs can best prepare for securing local
investors.
There is no better place to begin capital raising for
Australian and New Zealand entrepreneurs than in their home country.
Seed capital for venture capitalists in Australia has
historically consisted of government money that attracted funding from the
private sector.
In part three of our series on the capital raising cultures
in Australia and the US, San Francisco-based Steve Anderson explores the five
things Australian and US venture capitalist must see before they will invest in
an early-stage company.
If the corporate vision is to grow a business beyond a 'lifestyle' size, and the founder is not independently wealthy, seeking capital
from investors outside of family and friends is unavoidable.
In a downturn like this one, the amount of capital invested
and the frequency at which it is invested is substantially reduced.
August is Venture Capital Month at
Anthill and last week we launched a new series
written by San Francisco-based Steve Anderson focusing on the capital raising
cultures in Australia and the US. Today, Anderson discusses the comparative
advantages and disadvantages of pursuing funding from Australian VCs or US VCs.
The decision of whether to pursue
funding from Australian VCs or US VCs is not necessarily an either/or
proposition. Both VC groups service the interests of Australian entrepreneurs.
You just need to appreciate them for their benefits.
August is Venture Capital Month at
Anthill and today we’re launching a new series written by San Francisco-based
Steve Anderson focusing on the capital raising cultures in Australia and the
US. Today, Anderson discusses the pros, cons, illusion and reality of raising
capital in the US.
Holy Grail
In 2008, US venture capitalists
invested $28.3 billion in 3,800 deals - a down year for the first time since "post-bubble" 2003, but still a lot of capital looking for potentially great
companies.
