Far too many businesses fail to raise capital because they lack the proper documentation, or because their marketing and offering materials (business plans, private placement memorandum, investor presentations) are unprofessional, unpersuasive, inadequate or incomplete.
If you are raising capital from multiple private ("angel") investors, a private placement memorandum [1] (PPM) is a necessary part of your documentation. Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of entrepreneurs and business owners are not familiar with details of preparing a private placement memorandum and marketing a private placement offering. In too many instances, this lack of knowledge prevents them from raising necessary capital, or -- even worse -- it can create costly liability problems.
To assist entrepreneurs, we created this report - "The Top 10 Private Placement Memorandum Mistakes" - to help answer some of the most frequently asked questions. We hope the report will help prevent many of the common errors we see businesses make during the process of preparing a private placement memorandum, marketing it to investors, and raising (or failing to raise) capital from private investors.
Some common questions answered in the report include:
- When do you need a private placement memorandum to raise capital?
- What types of disclosures must be made in a PPM?
- How can you market a private offering, while retaining a Regulation D exemption?
- What types of intermediaries and "finders" can promote a private offering?
- What types of investors can participate in a private placement?
- What are your options for preparing a private placement memorandum?
- How often should you edit or update a PPM?
Click here to download the report: Private Placement Memorandum Mistakes [2]
If you are seeking professional assistance with your PPM, Growthink offers professional private placement memorandum [1] writing and consulting services.
Or, if you're writing your PPM yourself, you can use our Sample Private Placement Memorandum Template [3] to finish your PPM quickly and easily, so that you spend less time "preparing," and more time speaking with investors.