Having started a business, an entrepreneur often feels an urgent need for an influx of additional funds. He can fill the financial gap by taking out a loan from a bank, or he can try to attract investors.

Doing the latter is usually much more difficult. How to find an investor? What nuances of communication with them should be taken into account? How to determine the chances of an enterprise to receive the desired amount of investment?

Investments: what are they?

Before we talk about ways to attract investment in business, let's take a short theoretical excursion. Let's define our conceptual apparatus. What is investment? What varieties are they represented today?

In modern economic theory, investment classification is carried out on the basis of a variety of criteria. There are three generally accepted among experts: the object of financing, the method of investment, and the strategy for their implementation.

According to the first criterion, investments are divided into the following types:

• so-called “real” investments;
• financial investments.

According to the criterion reflecting the financing method, investments are divided into:

• direct (directive);
• "portfolio"

According to the criterion of the applied strategy, investments are:

• risk-free;
• moderate;
• aggressive (“venture”).

The most important thing that an entrepreneur should understand is that in the modern capitalist world there are practically no “ideological” investors who are ready to simply invest in a business based on personal sympathy for the project. Many businessmen, as experts note, show some naivety. They think: “I’ll find an investor and immediately get rich.” But such thoughts are fundamentally wrong. First of all, the one who will invest in business will get rich - these are the laws of capitalism.

Who is he - an investor?

Subjects of investment in business can be a variety of groups of individuals and organizations. There are quite a lot of classification criteria here. The generally accepted types of investment subjects among economic theorists are as follows:

• Russian government organizations (foundations, government and municipal structures, state-owned enterprises);
• private companies registered in the Russian Federation (LLC, JSC);
• individuals - citizens of the Russian Federation;
• foreign government organizations;
• private foreign firms;
• individuals who are citizens of other states.

Where can I find an investor from these categories? There are many options. The easiest way is to go through the relevant portals and numerous forums. You can periodically review magazines on economic and business topics. In the texts of materials and interviews that are published there, contacts of a variety of funds that provide investment support to entrepreneurs are regularly found. A completely working way is to attend business exhibitions and conferences. Representatives of various organizations often make presentations at them. A regular guest at such meetings is a private investor. You can find an opportunity to chat with him during coffee breaks or after the event. As a rule, such people are very open in communication and easily engage in dialogue.

How to find an investor who would prioritize investing in companies operating in a specific field (in IT technologies, for example)? In this case, experts advise purchasing industry magazines and attending conferences and seminars where representatives of companies operating in a certain segment speak.

People who are ready to invest in a business can act either as a single person or in various formats of consolidation with others. How to find an investor who is guaranteed to be ready to finance a project? The strategy for finding a source of investment will depend on what type of cash flow we need. In turn, this is determined by the nature of the business, the area where business activity is carried out and a number of other factors. Let's consider these nuances.

Real investment

Real investments mean investments in various types of assets. This may be the allocation of funds for the purchase of certain resources or the supply of them to the entrepreneur in ready-made forms. That is, for example, if a business needs processing machines, then an investor can make a “real” investment by allocating funds for the purchase of equipment or providing a partner with ready-made samples of units.

The “ideal” investors for projects of this type are government funds. Why? As experts say, such organizations tend to keep the progress of investment projects under control. This is much easier to do if the subject of monitoring is a real asset.

The ideal business that has the greatest chance of receiving such financing is a small or medium-sized manufacturing enterprise (producing goods) that has been on the market for 3-5 years or more.

How to find a “real” investor? What might make a person or organization interested in investing in a company's assets? Experts recommend trying the following tactics:

Show how profits have grown over the years and the company’s management strategy has been improved;

Make it clear that the owner of the company is an experienced and competent person;

Show that the business is stable: there are suppliers, sales are established.

Usually, if the company is profitable and the sales market is large enough, there are no problems with finding an investor willing to invest in the “real” assets of the entrepreneur.

Financial investments

Financial investments mean the injection of funds into shares, shares and other types of securities issued by a company (or structures owned by it in the form of joint-stock companies, foreign legal entities, offshore companies, etc.).

Ideal investors for investments of this type are private (Russian and foreign) funds. Why? In contrast to state-owned companies, which are very conservative in their attitude to the speculative component of business, private business quite allows for serious injections into the securities of enterprises.

The ideal type of company for this type of investment is a large, federal or international organization operating for 5 years or more. Finding an investor for a small business within the framework of such a strategy will be problematic. Most likely, the overall level of capitalization of the company will not be enough to service the turnover of shares.

How to interest a financial investor? Experts offer the following options:

Show that the company's shares are resistant to industry crisis trends (against the background of securities of competing companies);

Tell about other investors who have successfully invested in the company;

Convince a person considering the possibility of pouring financial flow into a business that the business model is workable.

People and organizations with a good understanding of financial markets tend to operate in large cities. Therefore, the greatest likelihood of meeting such entities and finding an investor in one of them is in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan and other major financial centers.

Direct investments

Direct investments are understood as cash injections, the object of which is the authorized capital of business companies. As a rule, we are talking about the purchase by a person investing financial resources of a controlling stake, a leading share, etc. If, say, citizen Ivanov says: “I bought Petrov’s business,” then this means that he made a direct investment in the business.

These types of acquisitions, in the theory of some economists, are often of a political nature (that is, they are often aimed not at making a profit, but also at increasing influence in certain areas at the municipal, district or even national level). Often, experts note, direct investments are unprofitable in financial terms.

Ideal investor: an influential person or organization, an oligarch, a major political figure (can be either a citizen of the Russian Federation or a foreigner). Why? These subjects of the business arena are ready for the fact that a potential investment object will not bring profit; they see it as a source of increasing their importance in certain areas.

Ideal business: city-forming enterprise, IT project of federal or international scale (for example, a social network, an anti-virus company with a powerful product, etc.).

How to find investors for a business who are ready, like citizen Ivanov, to buy it? The great thing is that you most likely won’t have to do this in this case. If the project is worth the investment, the investor will come himself. Many experts think so, and we can probably agree with this.

Portfolio investment

When citizen Ivanov says: “I invested in Petrov’s business” (which looks quite contrasting with his previous “statement”), this means that he made a portfolio investment. This type of operation means the transfer of funds in favor of business assets with the subsequent goal of receiving income upon growth of capitalization (company revenue).

Example. Petrov's company has a capitalization of 1 million rubles. Citizen Ivanov came and offered the entrepreneur a deal. Petrov's company receives 200 thousand rubles of investment in exchange for a 20 percent stake in the company. The entrepreneur agrees. The business turns out to be successful, and a year later Petrov’s company grows to 2 million rubles. Ivanov, as we remember, having invested 200 thousand, received a share in it of 20%. Which is now equal to 400 thousand rubles.

The most interesting question regarding portfolio investments is the following: how to determine the very share that the entrepreneur will cede to the investor? There is no clear answer to this, but experienced experts recommend following these principles:

In any case, retain the controlling stake;

Give a percentage of ownership of the business, assessing the likely volume of subsequent rounds of investment (if there are any other investors in the future, a “reserve” of equity participation should also be set aside for them).

Risk-free investments

This kind of investment is aimed at extracting a practically guaranteed profit (usually small). This type of investment is comparable (and for the most part very similar) to a bank deposit, when the investor, having invested money for a certain period, returns it with interest. Legally, relations between an investor and entrepreneurs within the framework of transactions of this type are formalized, as a rule, in the form of loan agreements or the purchase of bonds.

What is the ideal risk-free investment subject? This is a state fund, a large corporation. Why? For both, stability is very important. Profitability comes second.

Ideal business: a large public or private corporation with a very large capitalization (allowing it to service bonds and loans).

How to interest an investor? Experts believe this is possible:

By publishing financial statements in an extremely transparent manner;

Showing actual performance results (market coverage, ratings, etc.);

Convince the sustainability of the business model.

Moderate investment

The main criterion here is the guaranteed absence of losses for the investor, regardless of how the business goes, but subject to a sufficiently high probability of extracting greater profits than with the first type of strategy.

Example. Ivanov tells Petrov that he is ready to invest in his business. The conditions are as follows: the contract period is three years, and if during this time the company grows, the investor will receive a profit in proportion to the increase in capitalization. If the business goes negative, the entrepreneur returns the amount of investment without profit. Let’s say Ivanov invested 1 million rubles, while Petrov’s company had a capitalization of 10 million. Option one: after three years the company grew to 15 million. Ivanov will thus receive 1.5 million rubles. Option two: in three years the company

Petrova loses 30% in capitalization. Ivanov, in accordance with the agreement, receives the invested 1 million back without any additional payments. Legally, the relationship between an entrepreneur and an investor can be formalized in the form of an option agreement for the purchase and sale of shares. That is, Ivanov, at the moment of signing an agreement with Petrov, buys securities from him and receives an option - the right to sell them - at the price that will be in three years.

This strategy helps very well in solving the question of “how to find an investor for production.” As a rule, expanding the capacity of a factory or plant means that the entrepreneur has found some new markets. Therefore, there is a high probability that the investor will want to finance an increase in the volume of production of goods for which demand is expected to increase. Due to similar patterns, using this strategy, you can find an investor for construction. Who, having seen the prospects for developing new markets, may decide to finance the construction of new, commercially in demand facilities.

Ideal investors: private funds, individuals (Russians and foreigners).

Ideal business: small and medium-sized enterprise, service company, catering facility, operating on the market for 1-2 years or more.

How to attract an investor? According to experts, this is what you should do:

Show the dynamics of profit growth and, no less important, in combination with the amount of costs;

Make it clear what principles the business model operates on and how sustainable it is;

Show that nothing prevents the company from developing (the sales market is large enough, there are no crisis trends, etc.).

Venture investments

This type of investment involves the greatest risks for the investor, but contains the possibility of receiving very large profits. The relationship between the entrepreneur and the entity investing funds allows for 100% unprofitability based on the results of doing business. However, the investor’s profit can amount to hundreds or even thousands of percent.

Example. Petrov developed a technology for producing wear-free socks using nanotechnology and invited Ivanov to invest 10 million rubles. into their industrial production. He agreed. According to the agreement between the businessman and the investor, the second received 80% of the company's shares and retained this share regardless of the company's success.

Option one: the whole world began to buy Petrov’s innovative socks. In three years, the company's capitalization has grown to $10 billion. 8 of which now belong to Ivanov. Option two: Petrov’s innovative socks turned out to be unclaimed. The company's loss amounted to 7 million rubles. Ivanov ultimately remains the owner of a share estimated at 80% of the remaining capital of the company, that is, assets worth 2.4 million, and has no claims against Petrov.

Of course, the above story is more fiction than reality. The venture market is a place where finding investors for a business is incredibly difficult. As a rule, funds and individuals who prefer an aggressive investment strategy choose 1-2 entrepreneurial projects out of 100. Having selected 10-15, they expect (and, as many experts believe, not unreasonably) the bankruptcy of 7-8 of them, that is, more half. And only due to the success of other companies do they recoup expenses and turn a profit.

An ideal business for this type of investment: a startup, a small organization that has just entered the market or is just about to do so. Venture strategy is one of the best ways to find an investor to start a business, despite the difficulties described above. The main thing here is not to stop searching, to offer, to act. And then the company will have a chance to get into those same 1-2 “elite” percent.

Ideal venture investors: private organizations (including those that specialize in this type of investment), individuals. Interestingly, this may also include some government funds. In particular, those aimed at supporting innovation. Thus, government agencies are gradually becoming the place where it is quite possible for even a novice entrepreneur to find an investor.

How to attract financing? Experts recommend the following tactics:

Tell the investor in detail about the target market, about who will definitely buy the innovative product;

Make it clear why the promoted product or service is better than solutions from competitors;

Tell us about the success of promoting a similar product (if there are such precedents) in other markets.

Attracting investments: tools

How is interaction between entrepreneurs and investors carried out in practice? Experts identify the following main mechanisms.

1. Personal communication with the investor

Most funds have offices, and with them - structures responsible for the “personal reception” of entrepreneurs, where experts sit and assess the prospects of businesses whose owners come looking for investments. Many economists consider this method of searching for investors to be one of the most effective. At least due to the fact that the proposal will be guaranteed to be considered. If an entrepreneur chooses a strategy of personal visits to foundations, then it is better for him to temporarily move to a large city where there are many such organizations (if he does not live in such a locality himself). Finding an investor in Moscow is much easier than in remote regions.

2. Remote communication (correspondence, phone calls, Skype)

As a rule, this method of interaction is relevant for cases where an entrepreneur lives in one country and an investor lives in another (or they are separated by significant distances). One of the advantages of this method is the ability to interact with several funds from different states and cities at once. You can solve the problem of how to find an investor in Moscow, and at the same time communicate with companies from the USA and Singapore. In this case, the chances of attracting financing increase significantly.

3. Public addresses of the entrepreneur

There is an option in which a businessman does not visit any specific structure, but addresses the entire business community. The main “platform” where it will be easiest to find a private investor will be the company’s website, the personal blog of its founder or his page on a social network. The most popular method of interaction with the public is crowdfunding, in which absolutely anyone can invest in a business.

You can attract investors through several channels at once. This is a common practice for businessmen today (especially startups). The main thing is not to retreat, to convince yourself: “I will find an investor.” Unlike banks, which either give a loan or not (and then some time must pass before the next application), people who decide to invest in someone's business can change their minds.

Having refused an entrepreneur today, the investor may well change his mind and give consent tomorrow. This nuance, experts believe, is one of the key ones in building a successful strategy for attracting funds to business. Don’t just think about how to find a private investor. As we said above, in the modern capitalist space there are also interested state structures.

Starting a business in many cases requires attracting significant investments. Appropriate capital can play a decisive role in the timely introduction of a startup to a promising market, improving its recognition in the segment, expanding its geography, and modernizing production. Where can you really find an investor? How to build a trusting relationship with him?

For what purpose are they looking for an investor?

Before asking the question of where to find investors, you need to decide for what purpose the search for partners should be carried out. As a rule, this problem is solved by the owner of a commercial enterprise. He requires the assistance of the investor due to the availability of insufficient funds at his personal disposal in order to fully implement the business project. An investor may also be interested in providing the required amount of financing in order to subsequently benefit from the growth of the company’s turnover.

What are the mechanisms for building relationships with investors?

Also, before thinking about where to find investors, an entrepreneur needs to decide on the desired mechanisms for building relationships with a partner. There may be several of these.

First, the relationship between an entrepreneur and a partner who is willing to provide financing may constitute a direct investment. This mechanism involves providing the company with funds in exchange for the partner’s participation in the direct management of the organization and in determining the business development strategy.

Secondly, financing can be raised on portfolio investment terms. This mechanism assumes that a partner, by investing money in business development, simultaneously acquires a share in the ownership of the company. In the first case, the investor's benefit is to participate in the management of a potentially large enterprise and become an influential member of the business community. In the second, the partner, if the company grows, gets the opportunity to significantly increase his capital.

What types of investors are there?

Another nuance that an entrepreneur needs to study before deciding where to find investors is to consider the specifics of the activities of partners who are ready to invest in other businesses. Subjects that become participants in the relevant legal relations can be represented by: individuals, organizations. Both of them, in turn, are classified into venture investors and those who are ready to invest in fundamental projects. Investors can also be Russian and foreign.

Another criterion for classifying entities involved in legal relations with businesses on financing issues is the degree of state participation. There are government agencies, most often foundations, that assist businesses in raising funds or provide them. There are completely private companies.

Crowdfunding

There is a special category of legal relations in the field of investment - crowdfunding. This term corresponds to the mechanism of business means by a large number of people - individual social groups or representing society as a whole. As a rule, investors who provide funds to entrepreneurs through crowdfunding do not impose any obligations on them in terms of exchange for a share in the business or participation in the management of the company. This feature predetermines the great popularity of the corresponding legal relations. Many entrepreneurs, when thinking about where to find investors, first of all turn to crowdfunding.

What might interest an investor?

Let us now consider a number of practical nuances that characterize the relationship between entrepreneurs and partners in terms of business financing. So, before thinking about where to find an investor for a project, you should pay attention to such an aspect as the attractiveness of the business project - those indicators that a potential partner will pay attention to when deciding to invest money in the company. Which ones exactly?

First of all, this is the presence of a sufficiently large market for the sale of goods and services that the company produces. The second indicator is the dynamics of industry development. The investor is interested in ensuring that the product produced by the company is in demand on the market for a long time. If the dynamics of the development of the industry in which the enterprise operates is quite high, then the partner must make sure that the entrepreneur can ensure the timely release of goods that are not inferior to the products of competing enterprises.

Actually, the level of competition is also an important indicator for an investor. At the same time, high may be more preferable for some partners, while low for others. In the first case, the investor and entrepreneur can take advantage of the presence of a fairly stable demand for the product being produced and counteract competitors due to the higher quality or lower price of the products supplied to the market. Low competition is attractive from the point of view of the company's profitability. Of course, provided that there is demand for the goods produced by the company.

Another important criterion for an investor to make a positive decision regarding project financing is the validity of the business plan. The market may have the most favorable conditions, optimal levels of demand and competition, but if the entrepreneur does not provide a plan in accordance with which the company will take advantage of these advantages, the investor may question the prospects for financing the company.

The next factor in a partner making a positive decision on a project is the competence of the team with which the business owner works. Or his personal one. The market situation may be optimal, the business plan may be worked out in detail, but the implementation will not be at the highest level due to the fact that it will be carried out by untrained people.

These are the main factors that an entrepreneur should consider before thinking about where to find an investor for a project. If he successfully solved this problem, you can move on to considering specific mechanisms for finding a partner. Where to find an investor for a startup of a medium or large enterprise in Russia?

How to find an investor for a startup?

Let's start with the specifics of finding partners for a startup founder. The main value of the corresponding type of business is a promising idea. As a rule, it is characterized by originality and dissimilarity with most other concepts. Another significant criterion for assessing the prospects of a startup is the absence of existing businesses in the corresponding segment throughout the country or a particular region.

It happens that an entrepreneur who is solving the problem of where to find an investor in Moscow nevertheless decides to switch to one of the markets in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, since competitors may already be operating in the Russian capital. While in the regions similar businesses will not be very developed or will be completely absent as economic entities.

Above we examined the main mechanisms for attracting investment. If the question is about where to find an investor for a startup, then the optimal schemes in this case would be: attracting crowdfunding. The advantage of both mechanisms is the absence of large risks for the entrepreneur. True, in the case of venture projects, the business owner in most cases has to give up a share in the ownership of the company - the type of financing in question falls under the category of portfolio investments. However, in this case, the partner, as a rule, bears the bulk of the expenses necessary for the The advantages of crowdfunding are also obvious - this is the opportunity to attract a large amount of funds in the absence of obligations to investors in most cases.

Where can you find an investor who is ready to invest in a startup within the framework of one scheme or another?

If we talk about venture projects, there are a large number of specialized funds that are actively involved in the relevant legal relations. They exist both in the Russian Federation and abroad, and are represented by both public and private structures. Sometimes it is enough just to find a suitable venture project or venture fund, and then get acquainted with the proposals of the relevant companies regarding the prospects of partnership with private organizations.

How to find investors and where to look for them when it comes to crowdfunding? This format of legal relations is almost entirely online. There are a number of the largest ones - both Russian and foreign. Using them is quite simple, but it is important to create a competent description of the business project and tell potential investors about its advantages.

How to look for an investor for a small business?

Let's now consider where to find an investor for a small business. This format of the enterprise’s activity assumes that the company is not a startup, but an already functioning business with more or less acceptable turnover. Investments in this case are sought in order to expand or modernize production, conduct a large-scale marketing campaign in order to increase brand awareness in the region, country or abroad. As a rule, small businesses are financed with the participation of investors who specialize in building fundamental partnerships with private firms.

Venture investments allow for a scenario in which the partner, in principle, will not be able to return his own investments, since the business will be unprofitable. In turn, a fundamental partnership assumes that the investor will be able to at least ensure a zero return on his investments, and in the future, significantly increase capital through the growth of the enterprise.

Where to find an investor for a small business? Such problems, as a rule, are solved during personal meetings between entrepreneurs and potential partners who are ready to invest money in the development of the company. They can be held as part of specialized events - business conferences, round tables, presentations. It is possible for an entrepreneur and an investor to communicate in an informal setting, for example at a corporate party to which they were invited. Fundamental investing is a common type of activity among financial funds. Information about them can also be found in search engines.

How to find an investor for a medium or large enterprise?

Where can I find an investor for a business that is a medium or large enterprise? It is noteworthy that a large-scale established company, at least classified as a medium-sized business, as a rule, in itself is a desirable investment object for an experienced financier, since it is an operating profitable business. Therefore, it is possible that you may not have to look for a partner willing to invest money in the company if it meets the criteria of a large enterprise.

However, another question may well be relevant - where to find a private investor who would be a reliable partner, ready to build a constructive dialogue on business development issues. It is resolved, as a rule, in non-public ways - through communication with major financiers within private channels. But in some cases, it is possible to find an investor at large events, especially if we are talking, for example, about international exhibitions. The prospects for building relationships with partners largely depend on the area of ​​business.

Thus, solving the question “where to find an investor for construction” may differ significantly from such a task as finding a partner in the field of information technology. The construction business and IT are areas with different profitability and development dynamics. Each of them requires special investor competencies when assessing the prospects for investing in a particular company. But, of course, there are financiers who are equally well versed in both construction and information technology. Thus, the investment search strategy largely depends on the size of the company, as well as on the sector of the economy in which the company is represented. For startups, one approach will be more justified, and for small businesses, medium-sized and large firms, other strategies.

It will also be useful to consider a number of recommendations for entrepreneurs who decide to find an investor and establish a trusting relationship with him. Let's study those strategies that can be characterized as universal, sufficiently suitable for a business of any size - startup, small, medium or large enterprise.

How to find an investor and establish a relationship with him: recommendations

Actually, it is useful to search for an investor in those social environments in which people engaged in activities close to the company’s profile communicate. Where finding a private investor for construction is not a problem, it can be quite difficult to establish interaction with a person who might be interested in the sales field. Effective investing is largely the result of high competence, most often achieved within the narrow specialization of the financier.

Investment experts advise company owners to first tell potential partners what other sources of financing are expected to be used and what their actual availability is. This approach will allow the investor to understand his own role in relations with the business and assess his readiness to comply with it. So, if the company also uses credit funds, then its owner can make it clear to the partner that he can count on a smaller share in the business than if the investor financed the project individually.

Another important nuance is the discussion of the conditions for changing the initially reached agreements. It may turn out that during the course of development the project will begin to show greater or less profitability (or dynamics of return on investment) than expected by the business owner or investor, as a result of which it may be preferable for them to change the order of their own participation in the company’s activities.

An entrepreneur should discuss with his partner the reporting procedure for certain business transactions and its composition. Some investors require the preparation of only accounting documentation of the appropriate type, while others prefer to also receive these nuances. It is useful to clarify these nuances at the very early stages of the partnership.

It is therefore important not only where to find a business investor, but also how to establish a long-term partnership with him. A high level of competence in entrepreneurship is always valued. Therefore, investors will also be interested in building an effective partnership. You need to be able to listen to him and take into account the interests he expresses.

Summary

So, we looked at the question of where to find a real private investor. Its successful resolution depends on the scope of the company’s activities, its scale, the level of competence of the entrepreneur and the specialists he attracts. An important role is played by other conditions of financing of the company, as well as the willingness of its owner, if necessary, to revise the agreements reached with the investor in order to build long-term partnerships.

Beginning entrepreneurs often face a lack of funds, without which it is impossible to implement a promising business idea. In this case, you have to look for an investor who will agree to invest money in your business. This is a difficult process that requires persistence, patience and self-confidence. You will learn how to find an investor from scratch for a small business in this article.

How to attract an investor?

Any investor strives to increase his capital. The interest on deposits offered by banks and other financial institutions does not suit people who want their money to work and make a profit, since such dividends barely cover the level of inflation. Therefore, investors are looking for businesses in which they can invest capital and thereby provide decent passive income. If you are interested in how to find an investor for a small business, first of all you need to perceive him as a potential partner, since you are investing an idea into the business, and the investor is investing his money. Accordingly, this should be beneficial for both parties.

Experts believe that finding an investor for a small business is not difficult. The most important thing is a competent presentation of the idea, which can convince him that this type of investment will significantly increase his capital.

In an investment question, the following questions need to be addressed:

• Demand and uniqueness of the product;
• Investment size;
• Payback period of the enterprise;
• Calculation of future profits and guarantees.

If you can find convincing arguments for all of these positions, the investor will be convinced that your idea will indeed bring good profit and ensure its financing.

Where to start your search?

1. Step #1. Make a clear plan that you will present to potential investors. With its help, you must convince the person that your strategy will allow you to make a good profit. The document must contain a complete description of the company, its prospects, and place in the market. Also, do not forget to attach a calculation of the initial investment and the approximate payback period;
2. Step #2. Decide on the type of investor. For example, you are interested in how to find an investor who will allocate funds to achieve certain goals - to purchase equipment or expand production at a certain interest rate. Or maybe an investor will suit you who will give you money, but will ask for a share in the business in exchange. Choose the most acceptable form of cooperation for you and indicate it in the plan;
3. Step #3. Seek help from experienced businessmen who have been working in your chosen field for a long time. They can give you sound advice on attracting investors to your business;
4. Step #4. Find specialized sites on the Internet where aspiring entrepreneurs are given the opportunity to present their project to business angels. You place your request for financing an enterprise, after which investors contact the author of the idea that interests them.

Where to look?

Before finding an investor for a business, you need to carefully prepare and make a detailed description of the future enterprise. It is advisable to involve experienced economists in this matter who will help you draw up an action plan. It should outline the production technology, the level of competition in the market, marketing research, and markets for finished products. You also need to attach financial calculations and detail the payback period and future profits.

Now let's try to figure out where to find an investor for a small business. There are several options to help you resolve this issue:

• Relatives and friends. Since finding an investor to invest in a business idea is not so easy, try to involve your friends and relatives in this business. This is an ideal option that allows you to minimize all risks. If the implementation of your project does not require large start-up capital, you can invite your friends to invest their savings in the business for a certain percentage of the profit;
• Businessmen. In any city there are experienced entrepreneurs who have made a fortune and want to invest their capital in some profitable business. Try to get a long-term loan from them on favorable terms or offer equity participation in the business. The second option will significantly limit your freedom of action, so think carefully before taking such a step;
• Funds. Another option for finding an investor for a business from scratch is investment funds, as well as funds that assist small businesses. But in order to receive money from such an organization, you need to prove that your project is viable. In addition, an aspiring entrepreneur must have his own start-up capital, which he plans to invest in a new enterprise. This option is more suitable for businessmen who want to find an investor in an existing business. To get a positive answer, you need to draw up an enterprise development plan and conduct a thorough analysis of your company’s work. It is also necessary to constantly monitor the performance of public investment funds. They often hold various competitions that allow them to select the most promising projects;
• Venture investing has become widespread in many developed countries. If you want to find investors for business development in this way, you should remember that these organizations invest money only in promising risky projects in the field of science, innovation or IT technology. Sometimes venture funds finance the service and trade sectors. But at the same time, they expect a share in your business and stable profits. As a rule, such funds finance the enterprise for several years and then sell their share to the owner;
• Business incubators. This is a special platform that is intended for the implementation of various projects. To find an investor for a business in Ukraine in this way, you need to provide a competent plan and pass an interview or win a competition;
• Banks. If you don't know where to find an investor for your business, try getting a loan from a bank. But, unfortunately, getting the required amount is not so easy, since credit institutions usually impose serious requirements on borrowers. You will need a guarantor, collateral and a package of documents. If you do not comply with the bank's requirements, you may not receive a loan. This option is more suitable for implementation.

If you want to find money for your business, be patient. All candidates must be carefully considered and possible risks taken into account. In this case, you can choose a reliable investor who will help you open a profitable enterprise.

Foreign investors

Some entrepreneurs who cannot find money to implement their idea in our country are trying to attract foreign capital to the project. Let's figure out where to find a foreign investor for a small business?

It is pointless to rely on your past victories in various competitions and festivals, since foreign investors are only interested in real financial achievements. You must offer them a project that, with additional funding, will bring in millions in profit, preferably in dollars. It doesn't have to be some kind of technological idea, but if it shows high profitability, you can safely count on the fact that investors will pay special attention to you. Believe me, no one will invest in your ambitions. Therefore, if you are not confident in your abilities, look for interesting ones, the implementation of which does not require large start-up capital. This is an ideal option to start with.

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Many aspiring entrepreneurs do not know how to find an investor for a business from scratch. This is both a simple and difficult task. Its simplicity lies directly in finding an investor - finding one is easier than it seems. The difficulty is to persuade him to become a partner, to convince him of the prospects of the emerging business idea.

Is investment needed?

On the one hand, investments are, of course, an important and useful tool for attracting third-party money to a start-up business. On the other hand, attracting an investor with money means dooming yourself to many other problems:

1. The search for investment and investors itself can take quite a long time. Especially if the business project is innovative. It would drag on so much that over the years the required amount could be covered by oneself.
2. Raising other people's money is a huge responsibility. The investor will have to answer for every penny spent, for every step. And if a project fails, the consequences can be severe and long-lasting.
3. Despite the need for initial capital to start a business project, having money alone is not enough. You need knowledge, a team, a sales market and much more, without which no startup will take off.
4. Conflicts with investors are inevitable. And the number of these conflicts directly depends on the amount of investment.

It is for these reasons that all novice entrepreneurs should carefully find out: can they cope on their own? Perhaps your own or borrowed funds will be quite sufficient. In addition to bank loans, you can enlist the help of a state support program for small businesses and entrepreneurship support funds.

Start searching for an investor

The search for an investor should begin with careful preparation.

Not every wealthy person is ready to immediately shell out the required amount to the first person they meet who promises a “super-profitable” project.

The minimum required to find an investor is a good business plan and presentation of the project. Please note right away that this is far from the same thing. A business plan is a thorough planning of a business idea in the short, medium and long term. It is necessary so that a potential investor can familiarize himself with the project in all its details, consult with lawyers, financiers, economists and other assistants.

But a potential investor will only get acquainted with the business plan if he likes the presentation. If the presentation itself is very successful, the plan may not be useful. They can give money without familiarizing themselves with the details, but this also rarely happens.

First of all, relatives, friends and acquaintances can provide assistance in finding an investor. They themselves will be able to act as a source of investment, i.e. become investors yourself. This is very convenient if your business is small and you don’t need significant capital. Firstly, this category of people is the easiest to convince. Much easier than experienced investors. Secondly, they rarely try to delve into all the details of entrepreneurial activity, preferring to trust the startuper in everything. Thirdly, reaching an agreement with relatives and friends is zero problem.

Private investors

Private investors who are ready to invest their money in a start-up business are called business angels. There are also organizations that tell beginners how to find an investor for their project. Managers of these companies will help prepare the necessary documents for investment sessions in order to find the maximum number of potential business angels.

Thanks to the help of associations, the problem of how to find a private investor becomes less relevant. But it is not guaranteed to be solved. Therefore, even if you are refused to invest, you should not give up. In any case, everyone who contacts such an association is guaranteed to receive a lot of knowledge and experience, as well as an understanding of the investment business as a whole.

Internet resources

In the age of information technology, it is much easier to find an investor to implement an idea on the Internet. Pay attention to message boards and specialized sites for aspiring entrepreneurs. These simple and accessible platforms will tell you where to find an investor for a small business.

It is more effective to contact potential investors directly. But this is complicated by the fact that they prefer not to publish their data online. The websites of investment funds, communities, technology parks and centers, including foreign ones, can provide some assistance in the problem of “finding an investor to start a business.” But be careful: many resources offer paid services, but the results are not guaranteed! At the same time, the chance of finding an investor for your business for free is only slightly lower.

Collective investment services will allow you not to look for an investor for production, but to organize telecommunications fundraising for your project yourself. This may be an interesting solution to attract an investor. To organize innovative production, contact the Skolkovo Foundation or the Strogino Technopark. These are government agencies, and attracting the government to finance a business from scratch is not easy, but it is possible.

Who can be an investor?

In the process of searching for investors for a business, it is useful to know in advance who you will encounter. In the vast majority of cases, an investor is a person in a prestigious, highly paid job or government service, living in Moscow. These are people who have the means, opportunities, experience and desire to open their own business, but do not have the free time to do so. They are the ones who most often look for promising entrepreneurs, people with creative ideas and invest money in their projects and business ideas.

Preparing a presentation

Many investors turn down applicants due to the fact that they do not see what they would like in the projects. Therefore, it is important to know the specifics of considering applications in order to know how to attract an investor.

The project presentation should clearly answer a number of questions. First, what product or service is offered to what group of people and what needs does it satisfy? Secondly, the financial indicators of the future business, its payback period and risks are important. Thirdly, the issue of exiting the project.

These are key questions, after satisfying which a potential investor begins to consider the project more closely. If the presentation does not include any of these, then most likely the investor will not be interested.

Preparation of a business plan

Preparing a business plan is the second important component in determining where and how to find money for your production. When compiling it, you should not write that after some time the business will begin to generate high profits. No one is interested in this, if only because such statements are made in almost every new presentation.

For an investor, the same thing is important in a business plan as in a presentation. A clear idea of ​​what problems the business will solve, the risks of investing and ways to exit the deal. Only in a business plan should all these problems be described carefully and on the basis of feasibility studies.

In terms of describing possible risks, it is necessary to take into account not only possible problems during the implementation of the project, but also troubles that may occur in the future. Of particular interest to investors is the assessment of competitive risks and force majeure circumstances.

When developing ways to exit the project, determine as precisely as possible: when and how the investor will be able to sell his share of the business. These rules should suit not only the business initiator, but also the investor. To make sure they are satisfied with it as much as possible, always remember the main goal - to earn money.

Mistakes in finding investors

The most common mistake in searching for investments is the lack of development of business plans. Typically, everyone focuses on high profitability potential and good earnings forecasts. But, in addition to these indicators, potential investors are also interested in other factors: the overall functionality of the business, the performance of the business before the influx of investments, potential business problems and ways to solve them. You must be clear about your business in every detail.

Among investors there are many who are well versed in business methods and for whom it is important to see the picture of the future project in all details: production and sales, marketing and advertising, management and much more.

The project for a future business must be thought out even in the event that the initiator leaves the project for some reason. There must be an action plan for this eventuality. Such a mechanism so that the business does not stop making a profit. For the person investing money in the project, this is also important.

All investors are divided into two groups. The first gives money, then simply gets acquainted with general reports and makes a profit. The second, in exchange for investment, requires a full-fledged partnership: shares in property, a seat on the board of directors, and serious management control.

Another mistake novice entrepreneurs make is underestimating the costs of starting a business and overestimating profit forecasts. An experienced person can immediately see the underestimation of start-up costs, and he is also well aware of the consequences of this underestimation. Therefore, this project will not interest investors.

As already mentioned, 90% of investors are good business specialists. The remaining 10% consult with specialists in order to invest their money more reliably. Therefore, inflated forecasts of future profits will be a disadvantage for you.

The presence of know-how and innovation in a business project is a rather controversial issue. More “earthly” projects are considered reliable, guaranteeing a stable income. If the business being prepared is conceived as innovative, then its future leader should give the impression of a person capable of bringing the project to a profitable level. A person who understands all the necessary things, has team management skills and business experience.

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