(Your Money Machine) Strategic Funding - Russell Colbourne

​Russell Colbourne : Your Money Machine

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INTRODUCTION
Your business is Your Money Machine.  In this Show – I’ll take you under the hood of your enterprise and show you how to fine tune your business.  Get ready for lift off as we add rocket fuel to your profitability!  This show is focused on businesses that have launched and are preparing for exponential growth.

Are you sure you’re ready for exponential growth?  Getting your mindset right to transition from business owner to CEO.  Are you prepared to give up some control and trust others to help you build?  As well as ensuring all your systems and standard operating procedures have been documented and are in place, you will need to ensure your financial reporting provides you with the feedback you need to run your business. 

Whether you need working capital to support your growth,  raise funds for a push into a new market, introduce a new  product range or even have a requirement to raise funds for  a new business venture, figuring out what you need to do and where to go can be difficult. With the advantage of “doing this for a living” this show summarises the process and points you in the right direction in terms of funding providers and where to go to get the independent specialist advice you are likely to need.

What You Need to Know - The What

• Which type of funding will suit your needs?
• Sources of funding (including advantages and disadvantages of each one).
• Where to get independent specialist advice on your funding options
• Presenting your case for the best chance of success
• How a part-time CFO can help.

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What You Need to Do - The How

There are many activities that sit behind each of the 12 boxes and the list below is not exhaustive, but merely gives some examples of what a business owner needs to consider in the area of Strategic Funding:

• Deciding which option of funding is best suited to the requirements of the business, 
• Equity or debt?
• Growth Capital or Survival Capital?
• Bank Operating Line of Credit 
• Loans 
• Invoice Discounting (Factoring) 
• Asset financing 
• Alternative Financing
• Selective Invoice Financing 
• Invoice Trading Platforms
• Peer to Peer Lending
• Crowdfunding
• Angel Investment
• Trade Finance
• Supply Chain Finance
• Private Equity Firms
• IPO
• Managing the process from determining the your immediate and long-term objectives to finding the right kind of funding partner for the business

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Written by Russell Colbourne, FCCA, GAICD
Your Money Machine
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Russell is a CFO and Entrepreneur who has worked across a diverse range of industries over the past 25 years.  After a short service commission as a pilot flying Seaking Helicopters in the British Royal Navy, Russell studied business and qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) in the UK. Since then he has been integral with the start-up of many successful companies and operations within larger organisations.  He has bought, sold and spun off business operations in the UK, Australia and the US. 

In 1994 Russell joined Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airlines where he was responsible for a number of innovative services that were, at the time, ground breaking and helped revolutionise air transport.  From launching the world’s first limo boat on the River Thames to developing the world’s first handheld check-in device and implementing drive through check-in booths around the world, Russell has helped the Virgin Group deliver unparalleled customer service. In 2000 Russell was the first of the Virgin team to arrive in Australia to start a new low cost Airline, and within 8 months had built a team operating flights between Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Russell now works as a Part Time CFO for a number of SME businesses in South Australia.  He is a Director of a health and wellbeing business; a crowdfunding website for educational costs and of the Founder Institute program in Adelaide where he lives with his wife and 3 teenage sons.

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