The Investment Handbook: A one-stop guide to investment, capital and business: The Essential Funding Guide for Entrepreneurs

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The all-you-need-to-know guide to Investment. The yearbook is packed with practical guidance on who to contact and how to get investment. The Investors Handbook is a comprehensive directory of venture capital firms, start-up investors and angel networks. Essential for any individual or business looking for investment, it will help entrepreneurs and business owners navigate the often complex world of sourcing finance. One of the main reasons start-ups fail is a lack of access to capital or accessing capital at the wrong time. Whatever stage a business is at, this book will help entrepreneurs and business owners understand and source in areas such as: Directory of investors When to fundraise How to meet investors Best people to connect and network with Pitching your ideas After and beyond investment A must-read book with contributions from investment experts David Bateman, Eileen Modral and Jonathan Reuvid. David Bateman, is a successful entrepreneur and has founded several businesses. He is an active investor and has spoken at many leading events and at university business schools including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Wharton and Columbia. Eileen Modral, is an Investment Network Manager at Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION), one of the UK's most well-known and established angel networks. Jonathan Reuvid was formerly an economist for French oil company Total, and later an entrepreneur. He is a published author of a range of business titles, and was writer and editor for of `Managing Business Risk', and `The Investors Guide to the United Kingdom'.

David Bateman has been both entrepreneur and investor. He was a partner in a start-up asset management business, backed by Deutsche Bank, that went on to raise more than $5 billion on the basis of the business plan that David and his partners wrote. In this firm, he has reviewed thousands of plans; a handful of which resulted in investment.