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Building Best Practice for GrowthMartin Carruthers, Growth Manager
Ambitions of growth
13%"Shrinkers"
57%"Stable"
13%"Growers"
Source: BIS Small Business Survey, 2012
"Internal capacity and capability"
Obstacles to business success for SMEs
"Overcoming obstacles in external environment"
Obstacles to business success for SMEs
"Vision of business owner"
Obstacles to business success for SMEs
Bad habits of business owners
"I'm too busy to work on my business because I'm too busy
working in it."
Bad habits of business owners
"I know my business better than anybody and therefore don't need
external advice."
Value of external advice
"About 80% of Fortune 500 &
FTSE 1000 companies today use executive
coaching extensively to stay on top"
Marshall Goldsmith
GrowthAccelerator Business coaching that delivers
• What does your company need the finance for?
• When do you need it?
• How much do you need?
• Where can you get it from?
• How do you get it?
Considerations for this Group
The UK Funding Landscape
Concept Pre-product Pre-revenue Post-revenue
Own Cash, Other Income, Friends and Family
Grants (Government, EU, TSB)
Crowd funding and Business Angels (individual SEIS/EIS deals)
VC and PE
Debt and working capital solutions
Seed EIS funds
Tax efficient funds - EIS and VCT
Observations on fundraising in the real economy
Knowledge gap, not funding gap – we have proved companies that engage with business support are more successful
Dynamic funding landscape – innovative and more competition
Syndicate investing is the norm – 8 out of 10 deals
The role of VC & PE – shift towards later-stage investments
18,000+ SMEs have achieved high growth
Funding Insights on GrowthAccelerator companies
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Top 10 Sectors
Information Technology 18%
Retail 11%Business Services 10%
Manufacturing 7%
Food & Drink 5%Medical Devices 5%
Technology 5%
Recruitment 4%
Design 3%
Communications 3%
65%Equity
32%Debt
3%Grants
£766kAverage equity cheque
£374kAverage debt cheque
£262k
Average grant cheque
2.6Funding rounds closed per week
80% syndicate deals
84%16%
Businesses are growing over 4x faster with the help of GrowthAccelerator
Helping SMEs to grow 4x faster
Change your habits and grow with us.
Contact:Martin Carruthers
07584 447357
Don't get left behind.
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