The Money Train

Before you get on the Money Train, here's what you need to know...

You have a great business idea but no money. There are investors out there with money looking for interesting new businesses. On the face of it, it's a match made in heaven, with lots of positives - but beware the negatives.

Those investment decisions will shape the future of your business. The standard models that investors impose on start-ups and young companies can mean loss of control, overbearing input, disproportionate reward to the wrong shareholders, or founders being squeezed out of their own businesses. Investment can also prop up a business artificially, building false hope and disappointment in the long term.

This book offers alternatives. It prepares you for the investment journey and helps you avoid the pitfalls. Once you are on the 'Money Train' it can be almost impossible to stop, change direction, or get off.

David Pattison has 20 years' experience chairing and advising companies looking to raise funds across a wide range of industries. In this book he shares what every founder needs to know before they buy a ticket for the Money Train. Providing a better chance that they will be driving the train rather than in the last passenger coach, being bounced around at high speed, uncomfortable and out of control