Finding proper business financing is not easy at the best of times for most small and medium sized business owners and managers.
There are a number of reasons that collectively explain why the business financing market can be so difficult to understand and navigate.
But probably the single biggest reason is the lack of useful information about how the business financing market actually works.
Business financing information and education sources predominantly come in two forms: 1) institutional education material; 2) major bank advertising.
If you’ve ever read through a educational finance text book or taken a business finance course, you already know how difficult it can be to apply the theories, principles, and strategies to a small or medium sized business scale.
From a formal educational point of view, there is very little useful information provided as to how the market place works, how to plan for financing requirements, how to manage periods of growth, decline, transition, start up, etc.
Sure academic books and courses can go through all these areas in great detail, but is the information practical, real...