{"id":2435,"date":"2014-01-12T19:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T03:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:58:38","slug":"ideal-business-financing-and-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/ideal-business-financing-and-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideal business financing for growing, profitable companies in 100 posts or less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teach what you want to learn&#8221; is the theme with which I started this blog in April 2012.\u00a0 Since then, I have written 100 posts &#8212; which means I&#8217;ve learned for myself and shared what I&#8217;ve learned under several themes:<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2138\" title=\"Business Financing\" alt=\"Business Financing - 100 Business Posts Worth Reading\" src=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/promise-to-sell-2-copy-300x231.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/promise-to-sell-2-copy-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/promise-to-sell-2-copy-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/promise-to-sell-2-copy.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Business financing and venture capital comes in many flavors &#8211;\u00a0 many more than the traditional venture capital highlighted in the media<\/strong>.\u00a0 <a title=\"Financing And Funding - Financial Strategy | Mason Myers Business Blog for Owners, Investors\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/investor-alignment\/\">Enlightenment about alignment with your investors is<\/a> rare to find and takes a lot of <a title=\"Competitive Advantage, Financing, Business Investment Partnership | Business Investment Blog For Business Owners\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/investment-financing-smaller-companies\/\">kissing frogs along the way<\/a>.\u00a0 Your company is heavily influenced from whom you take your capital &#8212; sort of <a title=\"Investment Financing, Funding | Business Owners, Models\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/your-business-investment-is-what-you-become\/\">a corollary to &#8216;you are what you eat&#8217;<\/a>.\u00a0 Your objectives need to be aligned with the objectives of the capital &#8212; and that is much harder to execute than most of us imagine.\u00a0 It also takes much longer to find those properly aligned sources of business financing than we would all prefer.\u00a0 This is even made more difficult because our preferences and objectives often change over time such as the question whether we are building to last or building to flip? Will you happen to want to sell when the capital source wants to exit? Do <a title=\"Venture Capital Myths - Not the Answer for Many Companies - Mason Myers Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/venture-capital-myths\/\">VC myths<\/a> help or hurt you?\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Business Strategy: Built To Last, Built To Flip | Business Financing &amp; Funding | Business Owners Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/built-to-last-or-built-to-flip\/\">To flip or not to flip, that is the question<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"VC Bargain, Venture Capital | Business Financing, Funding | Blog - Business Owners\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/vc-bargain-equals-duty-to-sell-company\/\">A\u00a0pact with a VC to sell your company<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your company culture can affect your bottom line more than you&#8217;d ever guess.<\/strong> In fact, I believe that culture can be a deep competitive advantage for certain companies and is often an under appreciated part of a company&#8217;s strategy.\u00a0 We have explored various types of <a title=\"Employee Ownership\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/category\/hr-culture-is-strategic\/employee-options-and-ownership-plans\/\">employee ownership<\/a> to support a culture and strategy.\u00a0 I have written about the importance of <a title=\"Company Culture, Business Strategy | Mason Myers Business Blog for Owners, Investors\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/feedback-key-growth-strategy\/\">giving feedback while telling the truth with compassion<\/a>.\u00a0 Culture is not beer on Friday afternoon or a Foosball table &#8212; culture is the unwritten understanding of how the organization handles challenges and opportunities.\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Company Culture Like Fine Wine or Great Coffee\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/company-culture-like-fine-wine-or-great-coffee\/\">Culture\u00a0can improve with age like fine wine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Company Culture Key to Growing A Business\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/growing-a-business-company-culture\/\">Growth comes from company culture<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What form and strategy works best for your growing, profitable company?<\/strong> <a title=\"Investment Strategy, Business Financing | Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett | Business Owner\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/investment-strategy-structure-differences-matter\/\">Form should follow function in young companies (post about Vanguard and Berkshire Hathaway)<\/a>, and we all have many more choices about how to structure our businesses that we may imagine.\u00a0 Thousands of decisions are available to you to build a culture and a <a title=\"Competitive Advantages, Differentiation Strategy | Business Blog for Business Owners, Investors\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/category\/competitive-advantage-and-differentiation\/\">competitive advantage<\/a>, similar to the thousands of small decisions used by makers of fine wine or coffee.\u00a0 To be better, you must first be different.\u00a0 To build competitive advantage, your company must first be different.\u00a0 Will your investors or sources of business financing increase your competitive advantage and differentiation, or will they slowly trend your company toward the mean and toward what every company does?\u00a0 Is your <a title=\"Business Growth Strategy, Opportunities | Growing A Business | Mason Myers Business Blog for Owners, Investors\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/business-strategy-plans\/\">culture and strategy created top-down or bottom-up<\/a>, and which is better for your company?\u00a0 Can your company utilize a structure where <a title=\"Best Business Financing Source: Its Customers - Mason Myers Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/best-business-financing-source-customers\/\">customers provide new capital<\/a>? Can partnerships extend your skills even further? Taken all together, the structure of your company and sources of your capital heavily influence what will happen with your company.\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Investment Strategy &amp; Structure Is the #1 Thing Founders and CEO\u2019s Should Watch In Raising Capital\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/investment-strategy-structure-differences-matter\/\">Structure and strategy must fit with each other<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>To Sell or Not to Sell &#8212; is there any more important question for a business owners?<\/strong> This assignment takes very different skills from managing a business. Will long-term regrets stay with you longer than short-term gains? Do you sell to <a title=\"Sell Your Company\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/warren-buffett-letter-about-business-buyers-to-business-owners\/\">competitors, flippers or long-term capital<\/a>? \u00a0When and where do you raise capital or business financing? Particularly in a sale, <a title=\"Bad Accounting is Bad for Business\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/bad-accounting-is-bad-business-and-bad-for-your-personal-credibility\/\">bad accounting can be bad for business<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Raising Capital: About Fit and Timing\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/raising-capital-is-about-fit-and-timing\/\">Capital fit and timing make a big difference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>I&#8217;ve attended many Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings over the last two decades<\/strong> in Omaha, my high school home town, and I have related many lessons learned from <a title=\"Warren Buffett &amp; Berkshire Hathaway - Mason Myers Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/category\/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway\/\">Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger<\/a>. An example is this post about the <a title=\"Investment, Business Models | Investment Strategy, Berkshire Hathaway | Mason Myers Business Blog for Owners, Investors\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/berkshire-hathaway-annual-meeting-2012\/\">Berkshire Hathaway meeting in 2012<\/a>.\u00a0 Buffet and Munger raise many questions, including the question of how a person can be as disciplined as Buffett, but also <a title=\"Business Owners, Investment Philosophy | Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway | Business Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/warren-buffet-investment-philosophy-balances-discipline-with-flexibility\/\">know when to break the rules as Buffett does all the time.<\/a> There is also this <a title=\"Company Culture, Business Strategy | Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway | Mason Myers Business Blog for Owners, Investors\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/stephen-burke-next-ceo-berkshire\/\">prediction about the next CEO of Berkshire Hathaway after Buffett.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Like Warren Buffett, Best Investment Philosophy Balances Discipline with Flexibility\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/warren-buffet-investment-philosophy-balances-discipline-with-flexibility\/\">Warren Buffett shares much wisdom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These themes and more were fun for me to write about.\u00a0 I am looking forward to the new year and to the next 100 posts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postmeta_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"postmeta classifications small\"><span class=\"post_categories\">Categories:<a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/category\/financing-funding\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business Financing &amp; 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