Overview Finance Map

The Finance Map below will accompany you through the whole chapter. It guides you through the steps in this chapter along the overarching questions of:

 

• Who are you as a business?
• What does your financial need look like?
• What financing scenarios are you interested in?

 

Over the course of this chapter, you can work through the finance map in several self-guided workshops, ideally resulting in all fields being filled out and you having a clearer picture of the type of financing you are looking for.

Often, some of these questions act as an eye- and conversation-opener about essential topics that need to be addressed and discussed in the team of entrepreneurs in order to start thinking about aligned financing and the future of your business. If you don’t have a clear vision of what you want for your company and yourself in the future, you will have a harder time understanding which financing conditions and capital structures really further your vision – and which might put it in danger.