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Selling a Business in 2023: How to successfully sell a small business
Selling a Business in 2023: Selling Successfully Using Proven Strategies, Tips, and Steps for Optimal Results.
Startup KPIs: Key Performance Indicators for Startup Companies
What are Key Performance Indicators? Key performance indicators (KPIs) are a type of performance metric that organizations use to measure their progress and assess whether they are meeting their goals. KPIs can be financial or...
How to start a startup - from founding to exit
If you are an entrepreneur with a great idea for a startup, then you have come to the right place. In this blog post, we will discuss how to create and grow your startup. In this article, we will cover topics such as how to start the business,...
The Definitive Guide to Cash Management for Companies
This article is a comprehensive guide to corporate cash management, from budgeting and forecasting to monitoring and investing. What is cash management and why is it important? Cash management is the day-to-day management of cash inflows and...
Venture Capitalist vs Angel Investor
Deciding to take your business to the next level is a big step, and there are many different paths you can take. One of the most common decisions entrepreneurs have to make is whether to work with a business angel to...
Finding investors: finding the right investments and investors for your venture
When starting a business, next to having a good business idea, one of the most important things you'll need to do is find business investors. This process can be daunting, but it's important to remember that there are plenty of investors out there who are looking for new businesses to invest in. In this article...
How to build healthy investor relationships
Last week, our consultant Konstantin sat down with Konstantin Kariapin and John McTavish of Paralect - a Venture Studio, Accelerator & Fund - to talk about startup fundraising and the current challenges, hows and whys of...
Trustventure bei Hinterland of Things 2022
Hinterland of Things mit Trustventure Am 01.06.2022 fand in Bielefeld die Hinterland of Things Conference 2022 statt, bei der unsere Mitarbeiter:innen Livia und Niklas mit rund 1.300 anderen Teilnehmern networken, interessanten Speakern zuhören und die Startup-Szene...
Lifecycle of a VC Fund
An overview of the different phases of a venture capital fund. A VC fund goes through three phases: Fundraising, Investment, and Divestment. General Partners (GPs) - the management of a VC fund - establish the VC firm and raise a fund...
How to: Finance Department in a start-up
How to Build the Finance Department in Your Company General Overview A comprehensive Finance Department includes: AccountingControllingStrategy and PlanningFundraising Investor Relations. The accounting and strategy departments...
Trustventure at RHIVE Ideathon and Conference 2022
We absolutely enjoyed participating as a sponsor and with Trustventure at the RHIVE Ideathon and Conference 2022 in Cologne, which was organized by Entrepreneurs Club Cologne e.V..
Startup Investors: Which investors invest in startups
Equity investments can come from different types of investors, which differ in their focus and objectives.
Structure Of A VC Fund
A venture capital fund consists of the general partners and the limited partners.
Initial Public Offering / IPO Vorbereitung
In order to prepare an Initial Public Offering (IPO), legal and economic requirements must be met.
Exit strategies for startups
Exit strategies can be divided into two categories: Merger & Acquisition strategies and Going Public strategies. Both strategies offer different advantages and disadvantages for founders and active investors.
Due diligence in fundraising: types and documents
The due diligence process as part of the fundraising process involves potential investors examining the company for opportunities and risks. To make the process as efficient as possible, it is essential for founding teams...
Konstantin Lotter with Pauline Brinkmann from Zaster Magazine
How do I found a startup? Consultant Konstantin Lotter spoke with Pauline Brinkmann from Zaster Magazine about this question. In addition to tips on founding a company, avoidable mistakes during the founding process and later fundraising, Konstatin Lotter gives important...
What is a Venture Capital Company?
Fundraising is a challenge for every company. Especially young companies and start-ups usually have some hurdles to overcome until they find a suitable financing partner such as venture capital financing through private equity....
Working Capital Management - Werthebel im Working Capital
Active working capital management secures liquidity through effective use of available funds and offers great opportunities to leverage existing value. In this article, we show how capital commitment and cash turnover periods of a...
Venture Mate Podcast with Lasse Hüttebreucker
Our founder and consultant Lasse Hüttebreuckerwas asked in the Venture Mate Podcast format of the Venture Capital Club Cologne Munich (VCC: CM) of the HHL...
What to include in a Term Sheet
Once the approach has been successfully completed, negotiations must begin and key rights and obligations must be contractually fixed in a term sheet. Before comprehensive due diligence, however, there is an asymmetry of information to the disadvantage of investors....
How to actively plan the exit scenario as a founder in order to take advantage of tax privileges
Already at the time of founding a company, it is possible to design the corporate structure in such a way that tax privileges for proceeds from the sale of shares or profit distributions can be used in the future. In this way, the founder...
VC Investors - What Venture Capitalists Look For
5 Qualities You Can Use to Convince a VC Investor Before founders contact venture capital funds (VCs), they need to understand what they base their investment decisions on and how to find and convince the right investors....
Interview with the founders of Trustventure - CFO-As-A-Service
"A trustful and successful cooperation between founders and investors is the basis for the growth of a venture capital financed company. To this end, it is of utmost importance to identify and actively reduce information asymmetries...
Template monthly reporting
Recurring business reportings create reliable transparency for management and shareholders. In doing so, they ensure long-term trust in business success...
Template: 13-week liquidity planning
In our last blog post we offered Recommendations for short-term liquidity security for young companies and start-ups due to the current corona pandemic and its effects. Based on some feedback and inquiries about these recommendations...
COVID-19: Recommendations for short-term liquidity protection
COVID-19 poses a major challenge to the German economy: international supply chains are being disrupted, demand is falling across large areas and orders are not being received. We therefore suspect short- to medium-term market uncertainty, the exact length of which...
