Introduction to entrepreneurship/IENT103/Financing/Video

If you need money to start your business, one of the first things you should focus on as an entrepreneur is understanding your options around raising finance. You (and any business partners) may have personal capital available to your start-up, but, in most cases, you will also need to consider other funding options, at least in the short term.

There are usually two main options for funding a business:

1. Debt funding
2. Equity funding

Debt funding

Video signpost: Funding a Startup

Funding a start-up happens in phases, starting with your own money or perhaps a bank loan, through angel investors and venture capitalists, right through to launching on the stock market.

You may not be interested in your company growing that big, but, whatever your entrepreneurial idea, you will still need capital.

This video explains the process of start-up funding.

Startup Funding Explained: Everything You Need to Know (9:26)

In the following pages we will look at how these stages work in more detail.