A Short Primer on Financing Alternatives
Presented to the Circuit
This presentation describes financing alternatives and ranks them according to degree of difficulty to obtain. The range of alternatives includes:
- Easily-accessible private sources such as family and friends
- Sometimes overlooked sources such as seller financing and earn-out arrangements
- Organized equity investment groups such as angel investors and venture capital firms, and
- Debt options that range from traditional bank financing to more costly and more complicated subordinated debt arrangements
The Circuit (www.thecircuit.net) is an organization that serves the Cincinnati metropolitan area’s technology community. With 175 member companies, the Circuit assists technology-related businesses as well as promoting the overall development of technology resources in the Greater Cincinnati area.