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Types of financing (part 2)

Another type of financing beside debt is equity financing. Equity financing means that business raise money through investor by selling the part of the ownership of the company. What motivates investors to get involved is their belief in company's potential and massive return on their investment in the future. It is also called risk capital because return is only possible if the enterprise produces sufficient revenues for that purpose. Equity financing has wide array of capital sources and here are some of them. Private investment from friends and family - you may think this is the easiest way to raise money because you will contact people that you know and it is likely that they want your business to succeed and they require less material preparation. Ownership sharing may or may be not required and many will enter into agreement through the use of promissory note. Usually people don't have large amount of money to invest in business so it is not very usual to secure...