Once your business has a product that meets customer needs and you have more orders than your current infrastructure can handle, you are ready to look for an Angel or potentially Venture Capitalist to provide outside funding.

Optomen Television are producing a new series for Channel 5 looking at “the major issues that small businesses face on a daily basis”. The series will feature 8 small businesses and Optomen are on the lookout for those businesses now

Many new businesses are keen to raise funds but is investment really what you need?
To kick off our new blog we asked Doug Richard for his advice on raising money from Angels. The advice might be surprising – don’t! Doug told us, almost universally, outside investment is the last thing a new business needs to succeed.
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