You’ve done it alone for a while, creating your product, service of offering and reached a certain stage in your offering where you need investor funding. Investors will provide money and you will keep on running things. How hard can it be? The smartest  founders are those that give the CEO role the respect that it[...]

What does an Information Memorandum Cost? Good question. Answer; It varies. Why? The best analogy that I can come up with is this. If you look under the hood of a 1980 Ford and open the hood of a 2019 Mercedes Benz, what’s the difference? The difference is complexity. That is, more moving parts. In[...]

Information Memorandums – What Information Should I Include? We speak to many well meaning entrepreneurs who are looking to raise funds from investors and who are therefore needing an information memorandum. After speaking with us for a few minutes we often start feeling a disconnect as we talk about what we would include in an[...]

I have been writing information memorandums for the best part of ten years. During this time, new clients have often approached me with an information memorandum they have written and ask for my opinion on it. If I’m engaged these documents inevitably become part of the raw data that forms the basis of an information[...]

I started writing information memorandums, investor offer documents and prospectuses around 2005 so have clocked approximately 10 years. Over this time I’ve seen the nature of investor offers change, market and industry fads come and go and money being funneled into all sorts of wild and wacky ventures and businesses. Have the fundamentals changed? No,[...]

I started writing information memorandums, investor offer documents and prospectuses around 2005 so have clocked approximately 10 years. Over this time I’ve seen the nature of investor offers change, market and industry fads come and go and money being funneled into all sorts of wild and wacky ventures and businesses. Have the fundamentals changed? No,[...]

You want to raise funds to start or grow your business. Grab a couple thousand dollars from a couple of hundred people and you’re away. Right? Not quite. You speak to a few people from the capital raising industry and come across the requirement to prepare a prospectus. Basically, an investor offer document that ASIC[...]