getting investor - raising money

Venture capital when you’ve already begun to operate and you need an infusion of capital to drive the business. Venture capitalists serve a very useful purpose under those circumstances. Reputable venture-capital investors generally don’t provide seed money to brand-new companies. These investors tend to have shared opinions about what’s hot; that is, which fields are candidates for investments at any given moment. For sure, the optics industry hasn’t been hot for a long time, not since the mid-1970’s. Very few laser and optics companies have been successfill in getting venture funding.

Once venture-capital investors commit funds, they need an objective measure of whether the company is on track; thus, managers have to be concerned about meeting the milestones on the business plan. This management approach can be costly for a small company; it can lead you to spend money before the business really requires it, in order to complete tasks that look less important now than they did when you wrote the plan.

Consider this, too. Venture-backed businesses have high failure rates — perhaps only about 10% of them become big successes. This failure rate is partially due to the fact that the winners have to compensate for the losses sustained by the other 90%. For that reason, venture capitalists tend to have high expectations for the return on their investment, typically 50% per year. The only way they can get that type of return is to take a high percentage of your business for their investment, especially when you approach them too early in your development. In that sense, venture capital is expensive. Another problem is that venture capitalists generally assume engineers can’t
manage this kind of business. Also, when venture capitalists are disappointed, they are quite willing to “pull the plug.”

business woman , coffee cafe business - christine Corkans

Here one of the example of what woman can do in business
If ever there was a textbook good-news business story, Christine Corkan’s
is it. Christine Corkan is a wonderful woman, She had run down the street for a coffee and missed her son’s soccer
goal. While she was climbing back up the bleachers, it hit her: why not bring
the coffee to the people?

“Vancouver is a coffee city, and it’s a recreating city.” refer from that facts, she says. “Most people
have three bucks in their pocket for a latte. I’m pretty much a normal person,
and if I wanted this, I knew others would want it too.”

Christine was already working part-time, but she didn’t feel her future was
secure. maybe you dont know how is the feel if you are working at part time
So she started pursuing her dream, a business she could manage
from home. She did a lot of background work while she established her
business, a gourmet coffee café on wheels. She was never daunted, even
though it took more than a year to go from the light bulb to the first latte.

“I just took it one day at a time, learned what the next step was and did it.”
Christine discovered that she’s a hit with her niche market – parents
watching their kids at the park. Her challenge now is to rein in her business.
With her own children at home, she’s determined to have her business serve
her life, not the other way around. So when she thinks about expansion,
she looks at options that support that philosophy, like franchising her Mobile
Café.

“I work about six hours a day on the weekend. I like that I don’t have a sign
that says I’m open from 9-5, whether people want the coffee or not. I’m
around for a few hours, then I go home.”