In this week's '15 Minutes TO Action', Nick discusses a popular topic among the Scale Up Your Business community - should we be seeking external investment in order to scale, or should we use bootstrapping to get there?

Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Fundraising is the art of going out into the world of investors and raising capital in order to fund the scale-up ambitions you have.
Bootstrapping is where you invest your own capital, or use funds from your founding team, or the profits from the business itself, in order to drive growth ambitions.
Businesses have different cycles of growth, and so the need vary from time to time. It's not just the domain of start-up.
We must ask ourselves if external investment is actually  What will these funds actually do for your business? Can you survive and thrive without them?

BEST MOMENTS

'Some businesses need a lot of capital to get off the ground'

'You're effectively giving up equity...'

'Do you really need to go after external investment?'

'You need to be clear right from the outset about what your exit strategy is'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast

Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community

Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks

ABOUT THE HOST

Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.

His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally.

Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.

CONTACT METHOD
Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com
Nick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fb
Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li
Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig

In this week's '15 Minutes TO Action', Nick discusses a popular topic among the Scale Up Your Business community - should we be seeking external investment in order to scale, or should we use bootstrapping to get there?
Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.
<a href="https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/">https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/</a>
KEY TAKEAWAYS 
<ul>
<li>Fundraising is the art of going out into the world of investors and raising capital in order to fund the scale-up ambitions you have.</li>
<li>Bootstrapping is where you invest your own capital, or use funds from your founding team, or the profits from the business itself, in order to drive growth ambitions.</li>
<li>Businesses have different cycles of growth, and so the need vary from time to time. It's not just the domain of start-up.</li>
<li>We must ask ourselves if external investment is actually What will these funds actually do for your business? Can you survive and thrive without them?</li>
</ul>
BEST MOMENTS
'Some businesses need a lot of capital to get off the ground'
'You're effectively giving up equity...'
'Do you really need to go after external investment?'
'You need to be clear right from the outset about what your exit strategy is'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Scale Up Your Business – <a href="http://www.scaleup.vip/podcast">scaleup.vip/podcast</a>
Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: <a href="http://www.scaleup.vip/community">scaleup.vip/community</a>
Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: <a href="https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks">https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks</a>         
ABOUT THE HOST
Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.
His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally.
Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.
CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: <a href="https://highvalueexit.com/">https://highvalueexit.com </a>Nick’s Facebook page: <a href="https://highvalueexit.com/fb">https://highvalueexit.com/fb </a>Nick’s LinkedIn: <a href="https://highvalueexit.com/li">https://highvalueexit.com/li </a>Nick’s Instagram: <a href="https://highvalueexit.com/ig">https://highvalueexit.com/ig</a>

Welcome to “Scale Up with Nick Bradley”.

In this podcast, we will show you how to scale up your business and your life! So you can achieve greater freedom, wealth and impact, and live life on your terms.

Ranked #1 business podcast in the U.K. on iTunes and Spotify, we will help you go from start-up to scale-up and beyond:
How to significantly grow your business; how to create commercial strategies that drive predictable revenue; how to leverage systems and processes to free you up from day-to-day operations; how to raise funding and investment; how to generate fast scale via business acquisitions; how to exit your business for life-changing money; ultimately, how to build your empire!

You can only scale a business to the level of your identity, so week in and week out we'll be bringing you inspiring guests to help you on your journey. You see, it's not just about spreadsheets and strategies ... it's about mindset, skillset, purpose and belief - learning from people doing extraordinary things, and making a bigger impact - so you can too.

Introducing your host - entrepreneur, investor and scale-up specialist, Nick Bradley:
- Over 10 years in Private Equity
- 117 acquisitions
- 25 business exits
- $5.3bn in deals
- #1 ranking business podcast in the UK … over 600,000 downloads in 130 countries
- “In business and in life - be grateful, be brave, have faith, show up!"

Contact details:

Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com

Nick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fb

Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li

Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig

Welcome to “Scale Up with Nick Bradley”.
In this podcast, we will show you how to scale up your business and your life! So you can achieve greater freedom, wealth and impact, and live life on your terms.
Ranked #1 business podcast in the U.K. on iTunes and Spotify, we will help you go from start-up to scale-up and beyond: How to significantly grow your business; how to create commercial strategies that drive predictable revenue; how to leverage systems and processes to free you up from day-to-day operations; how to raise funding and investment; how to generate fast scale via business acquisitions; how to exit your business for life-changing money; ultimately, how to build your empire!
You can only scale a business to the level of your identity, so week in and week out we'll be bringing you inspiring guests to help you on your journey. You see, it's not just about spreadsheets and strategies ... it's about mindset, skillset, purpose and belief - learning from people doing extraordinary things, and making a bigger impact - so you can too.
Introducing your host - entrepreneur, investor and scale-up specialist, Nick Bradley: - Over 10 years in Private Equity - 117 acquisitions - 25 business exits - $5.3bn in deals - #1 ranking business podcast in the UK … over 600,000 downloads in 130 countries - “In business and in life - be grateful, be brave, have faith, show up!"
Contact details:
Work with Nick: <a href="https://highvalueexit.com">https://highvalueexit.com</a> 
Nick’s Facebook page: <a href="https://highvalueexit.com/fb">https://highvalueexit.com/fb</a>
Nick’s LinkedIn: <a href="https://highvalueexit.com/li">https://highvalueexit.com/li</a>
Nick’s Instagram: <a href="https://highvalueexit.com/ig">https://highvalueexit.com/ig</a>

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