Starting a Business 6: Funding Your Business – FutureLearn

Raising funds in an important when starting a business find out which source of funding is most suitable for your business idea A successful business requires funding to get it started There are many ways to get your business up and running from the informal such as personal savings and borrowing borrowing from friends and family to the more formal avenues like bank loans raising equity to crowd-funding This course will help you consider the finance options available for businesses and how to fund the expansion of a business This is the final course in a series of six about starting a business Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the types of funds that can be raised to help get a business up and running Identify the factors which impact on the way a new venture is financed eg company type the market or sector the company is trading within the aspirations of the founders Discuss the entrepreneurs business challenge How can the expansion of the teams company be funded Assess funding for a business plan Assess whether funding is required to get started Reflect on how you would approach financial sources