Steve Parks

Equity funding and trading in Britain is about to take a step back in time - for the better.

In 1973 the regional stock exchanges in Britain were merged with the London Stock Exchange, but that step is about to be reversed in Birmingham, where the Regional Development Agency is set to open Investbx this summer.  read more »

How to Fund Your Business: The Essential Guide to Raising Finance to Start and Grow Your Business author: Steve Parks asin: 0273706241

Over the last couple of days some further details have been emerging about the small print behind the budget.  read more »

How to Fund Your Business: The Essential Guide to Raising Finance to Start and Grow Your Business author: Steve Parks asin: 0273706241

If you've read any of my books, particularly How to Fund Your Business, you'll know that I keep hammering home how important it is to manage and monitor your cash flow.

Cash is the fuel for your business - and you wouldn't want to be in a plane when it runs low on fuel. The same goes for your business.  read more »

Money men have an image of being serious and dull, so I was pleased, and amused, to see an article from one big US Venture Capital firm, listing the big successful companies that they passed on the chance to invest in.

Their site says:  read more »

I wrote a few days ago about the power of micro-finance, and the work done by Kiva, and my attention was caught tonight by a recent article in Fast Company magazine about the British Army using venture-funding and micro-finance to nurture start-ups in Iraq.  read more »

In browsing the blog of Saul Klein this evening I saw a post he'd written on Kiva - a micro-lending community to support entrepreneurs in developing countries.  read more »

A small, entrepreneurial publishing company is celebrating after one of its titles won Book of the Year in the Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book Awards.

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney is now expected to power its way up the best-seller lists - and power its publisher into profit.  read more »

It's not often I get to watch TV so I've been missing out on much of the Dragon's Den experience.  read more »

A band from Leeds that struggled to get the recording contract it wanted has taken the entrepreneurial route to success.

Four Day Hombre set up their own record label, which they funded by selling shares to their fans.  read more »

I blogged recently about my latest book "How to Fund Your Business", because I had submitted the final manuscript to the publisher.

Well, in parrallel with the last stages of writing the book, I had been using the ideas and advice in it to help a friend of mine raise £1.5m for his new business.  read more »

I've submitted the final manuscript for my next book "How to Fund Your Business".

It will be published by Prentice Hall Business (part of Pearson) in July 2006.

The book includes:
1. A guide to the steps involved in raising funding.
2. How to prepare your business to be ready for funding.
3. How to write your business plan.
4. An explanation of the different types of funding.  read more »