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- Matt Haycox
Capital Raising Strategies: Which Money to Raise, Who From and How to Run the Raise
A capital raising strategy is the plan behind a raise: which kind of money a business takes, how much, who it comes from, on what terms, how the founder…
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Non-Executive Directors: Duties, Time Commitment and When a Growing Business Needs One
A non executive director, usually shortened to NED, is a member of a company’s board of directors who isn’t involved in running the business day to…
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Advisory Board: When a Startup Needs One, What Advisors Get Paid and How to Run It
An advisory board is a group of experienced people who give a business advice, contacts and credibility without being its directors. They have no vote on the…
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Company Share Buyback: How a Private Company Buys Back Its Own Shares, Step by Step
A share buyback is when a company buys shares back from one of its own shareholders, using the company’s money rather than the money of another owner. In…
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Shareholder Disputes: Deadlock, Unfair Prejudice Claims and How to Buy Out a Shareholder
A shareholder dispute is a disagreement between the owners of a company that the normal way of making decisions can’t settle. It might be 2 equal…
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What Actually Happens to Your Credit Score When You Apply for a Loan Online
Applying for a loan online has become a popular option due to its convenience and speed. With quick loans accessible at the click of a button, many borrowers…
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Sweat Equity: How to Value Work for Shares, the UK Tax Trap and Why Vesting Matters
Sweat equity is a stake in a company given in return for work instead of cash. A co-founder, developer, marketer or adviser helps build the business and is…
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Founder Vesting and Good and Bad Leaver Clauses: What Investors Ask For and What’s Fair
Founder vesting means a founder earns their shares over a period of time instead of owning all of them outright from day one. If they leave before the shares…
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Founder Vesting Schedules: Cliffs, Good and Bad Leaver Terms and Acceleration
A vesting schedule sets out how a founder earns their shares over time, so that a founder who leaves early doesn’t walk away with all of them. Shares…
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Pre-Emption Rights in the UK: Allotment vs Transfer and How to Disapply Them
Pre-emption rights give existing shareholders the first chance to buy shares before they go to anyone else. In the UK there are two kinds. Pre-emption rights…
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Enterprise Investment Scheme for Founders: Eligibility Tests, Limits and How to Raise Under EIS
The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is a UK tax scheme that gives individual investors 30% income tax relief when they buy new shares in a qualifying…
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SEIS Advance Assurance: How to Apply, What HMRC Checks and What to File After the Round
SEIS advance assurance is HMRC’s opinion, given before any shares are issued, that a planned SEIS investment is likely to qualify for the scheme. A…
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SEIS Explained: Which Companies Qualify, How Much You Can Raise and Why Angels Ask for It
SEIS, the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, is a UK tax scheme that gives individual investors 50% income tax relief when they buy new shares in a young…
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What It Takes to Run and Expand a Successful Hospitality Resort
Running a large hospitality resort is like managing several interconnected businesses at once. Accommodation, restaurants, entertainment, events, retail…
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BATNA: How to Work Out Your Walk-Away Position, With Business Examples
BATNA stands for best alternative to a negotiated agreement. It’s what you will do if the deal in front of you doesn’t happen, and it sets the…
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Advance Subscription Agreements: How ASAs Work, Long-Stop Dates and SEIS Rules
An advance subscription agreement, or ASA, is a contract where an investor pays money into a company now in return for shares the company issues later. The…
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Convertible Loan Notes: Discounts, Valuation Caps and What Happens at Conversion
A convertible loan note is a loan from an investor to a company that turns into shares later, usually when the company sells shares in a priced funding round…
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Preference Shares vs Ordinary Shares: Dividend, Voting and Exit Rights Explained
Preference shares are shares that carry rights on top of those of ordinary shares, usually the right to be paid first: first for dividends, first for money…
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Liquidation Preference: 1x vs Participating, With a Worked Exit Waterfall
A liquidation preference is the right of an investor to be paid back before the other shareholders when the business is sold or wound up. It’s attached…
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How Does EIS Tax Relief Work?
EIS tax relief gives investors in small, unlisted UK trading companies 30% income tax relief on up to £1m a year (£2m if the excess goes into…
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Private Market Investing: How UK Individuals Get Access
Private market investing means putting money into companies, loans, property and infrastructure that aren’t traded on a stock exchange. In the UK…
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How to Invest in Private Equity in the UK as an Individual
As a UK individual you can invest in private equity through listed private equity investment trusts, Long-Term Asset Funds (LTAFs), venture capital trusts…
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Term Sheet: The Economic and Control Clauses That Matter and Which to Push Back On
A term sheet is a short document that sets out the main terms of an investment before the full legal documents are drawn up: how much is being invested, at…
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NightWin Casino Review: Games, Payments and Experience
This review focuses on what we can confirm from the information provided: NightWin’s game categories, campaigns and loyalty programme. Deposits, withdrawals…
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Investment Memorandum: What to Include, How It Differs From a Pitch Deck and When You Need One
An investment memorandum is a written document that sets out a business, its plans, its numbers and the terms of a raise in enough detail for an investor to…
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Investor Pitch Deck: What to Put on Each Slide and What Investors Read First
An investor pitch deck is a short slide presentation that tells an investor what a business does, why it can grow, how far it has got and how much the founder…
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Cap Table: How to Build One, What Fully Diluted Means and the Mistakes That Stall Due Diligence
A cap table, short for capitalisation table, is a list of everyone who owns shares in a company or has a right to them, showing how many each holds and what…
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Equity Dilution: How Much of Your Company You Keep From Pre-Seed to Series B
Equity dilution is the fall in an existing shareholder’s percentage of a company when it issues new shares. The founder still holds the same number of…
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Pre-Money vs Post-Money Valuation: The Formula, a Worked Example and the Option Pool Trap
Pre-money valuation is what a company is agreed to be worth before new money goes in. Post-money valuation is what it’s worth straight after, which is…
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Startup Valuation: The Methods Investors Use to Price a Business With No Profits
Startup valuation is the price put on a young company when it raises money, set as a value for the whole business before the new money goes in. For a business…
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Equity Crowdfunding in the UK: Platform Fees, Nominee Structures and What Investors Expect
Equity crowdfunding is raising money by selling shares in your company to a large number of investors through an online platform. Each investor puts in a small…
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Private Equity vs Venture Capital: Control, Deal Structure and Which Businesses Each Backs
Private equity vs venture capital comes down to what the business already is. Private equity firms mostly back established, profitable businesses, often buying…
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Pre-Seed Funding: Who Invests, Typical Round Sizes and What You Need Before You Raise
Pre-seed funding is the first money a company raises from outside investors, usually before it has meaningful revenue and often before the product is even…
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Seed Funding: The Traction, Team and Numbers Investors Check Before They Invest
Seed funding is the round a company raises once it has a product and early evidence that customers want it. It pays to turn that early evidence into a business…
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Series A Funding: The Revenue, Growth and Retention Numbers Investors Expect
Series A funding is the first large round a company raises from venture capital investors, and for many companies it’s the first priced round, where…
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What Is Equity Financing and How Does It Work?
Equity financing is raising money by selling part of your company. The investor pays cash for new shares and becomes a part-owner of the business. They get…
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How to Raise Capital for a Business and Startups
Capital raising is bringing money into a business from outside it, by selling shares to investors (equity), borrowing it (debt), or a mix of the two. A capital…
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Can Divorce Put Your Business at Risk? A Financial Checklist for Entrepreneurs
The useful approach is to separate those questions rather than assume the company will either be protected or divided. This checklist focuses on the financial…
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How Can You Tell Whether a Business Idea Is Actually Worth Pursuing?
A business idea can feel promising because it is new, personal, or linked to a problem you understand. That feeling matters, but it is not proof. A worthwhile…
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Alex Hormozi Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint – 2026
Who is Alex Hormozi? Alex Hormozi is an American entrepreneur, investor and author who made his money turning a chain of gyms into a business-education empire…
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BUSINESS TURNAROUND PLAN: THE PRACTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR GETTING A STRUGGLING COMPANY BACK ON TRACK
The practical UK business turnaround plan that includes the funding lever most frameworks miss, from an operator who's run one and a lender who's funded them.
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BUSINESS COST-CUTTING STRATEGIES THAT DON’T WRECK MORALE
The order to cut business costs in and how to have the conversation, from an operator who has made these calls and a lender who has watched thousands more.
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Signs a Business Is Failing: The 7 a Lender Sees Before You Do
The signs a business is failing that a lender spots on your file weeks before you do, and the four moves that decide whether you recover.
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Wayne Rooney Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Wayne Rooney built an estimated £150m: record transfers, the 2010 contract stand-off, a ~£100m Nike deal and the challenge of keeping a wages fortune.
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Kaleb Cooper Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Kaleb Cooper built an estimated £5m in five years: the Clarkson's Farm breakout, number-one books, sell-out tours and a real farming business.
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James May Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How James May built an estimated £22m: Top Gear salary years, Grand Tour equity, the widest solo-presenting slate of the trio and an Amazon travel franchise.
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Sylvester Stallone Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Sylvester Stallone built a ~$400m fortune: the Rocky gamble, Rambo and Expendables, top star salaries, a late-career TV reinvention, and the Rocky IP…
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Logan Paul Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Logan Paul built an estimated $150m: YouTube, the Mayweather fight, WWE, the boom-and-bust Prime stake, and the wins and losses of maximalist monetisation.
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Lewis Hamilton Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Lewis Hamilton built an estimated £290m: record F1 salaries, the Ferrari move, a huge endorsement book, a Denver Broncos stake and a diversified portfolio.
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Anthony Joshua Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Anthony Joshua built an estimated £150m: Wembley purses, the Saudi-money era, a huge Under Armour deal, AJBXNG and the 258 Management business.
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Ben Francis Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Ben Francis built a £1.2bn fortune from a garage: Gymshark's rise, the 2020 unicorn deal, and the equity discipline behind Britain's youngest billionaire.
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Gary Neville Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Gary Neville built an estimated £50m: United wages, Sky's top punditry salary, Hotel Football, Salford City and a Manchester property empire.
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Peter Jones Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Peter Jones built ~£500m: the Phones International engine, twenty years of Dragons' Den deal flow, the Levi Roots win and the Jessops lesson in sizing.
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Ryan Reynolds Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Ryan Reynolds built ~$350m: Deadpool backend, the Aviation Gin and Mint Mobile exits, Wrexham's rise and the celebrity-equity model done properly.
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Richard Hammond Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Richard Hammond built an estimated £27m: Top Gear salary years, Grand Tour equity, the DriveTribe write-off, Bollitree Castle and his workshop pivot.
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Roy Keane Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Roy Keane built an estimated £40m: the record 1999 contract, management pay, bestselling books and football's most bankable punditry persona.
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KSI Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
Executive Summary KSI’s estimated net worth, as of early 2026, is roughly £75 million, with credible estimates spanning an unusually wide £40 million to…
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Steven Bartlett Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Steven Bartlett built an estimated £75m: the Social Chain exit, The Diary of a CEO's £20m-a-year engine, and equity stakes from Huel to PerfectTed. Slug…
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Conor McGregor Net Worth: Wealth Blueprint
How Conor McGregor built a $200m fortune: PPV points, the $100m Mayweather night, the Proper No. Twelve exit, and the risks now testing his empire.
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Jeremy Clarkson Net Worth 2026: Wealth Blueprint
Jeremy Clarkson net worth: how he turned Top Gear fame into a £60m fortune: equity deals, the Amazon repricing, Diddly Squat, Hawkstone and more.