Finance 101 by Riyada Enterprise Development: Part One
Channel: Wamda
Date: 02/08/2011

Watch Riyada Enterprise Development's Finance 101 Workshop, a Wamda Exclusive tutorial, to learn the basis of negotiating investment at your company. 

Learn how the investors think, and what you as an entrepreneur should be considering before approaching investors.

In Part One of a workshop conducted at TiECon Pakistan, Saqib Rashid and Farhan Zaidi of RED's investment team address:

- what defines a company as asset-heavy or asset-light, and how investors approach these two types of companies

- how to weigh the benefits of equity versus debt as means to finance your company 

- how to accurately estimate the amount of investment that you need 

- how investors view risk at different stages of small business development

- how to assess the divide between investment from family and friends, and investment from a fund.

- the advantages of private equity investment, and how it differs from venture capital