How do you keep the people who matter without draining cash or losing control of your company? Every growing private company arrives at the same crossroads. A handful of people have become genuinely hard to replace — the person who holds the client relationships, the one who built the product, the one who quietly keeps […]
Why Selling Private Company Shares Is Nothing Like Selling Listed Shares Selling shares in a listed company takes seconds. There is a market, a live price, and a buyer who never needs to know your name. Selling shares in a private company is the opposite of all three. There is no market, so the price […]
The single decision that shapes everything else — and how boards get it right. Every board makes hundreds of decisions. Only one of them decides the outcome of all the others. Choosing a chief executive sets the direction of the company for the next five to ten years, and the cost of getting it wrong […]
Investing in a friend’s business is one of the most common ways private capital is deployed, and one of the least examined. The pitch happens over dinner, the money moves on trust, and the paperwork, if it exists at all, is a confirmation of receipt. Two years later the investor discovers that they have no […]
What founders should actually understand before taking outside money When a private company raises money from an investor, it does not borrow — it sells new ownership. The company issues fresh shares, the investor pays cash for them, and everyone who owned shares before now owns a smaller share of a bigger company. Three things […]
India has the audience. It does not yet have the business. Football is played and followed across the country, yet almost nobody earns a return from it. Club owners have absorbed losses every year for more than a decade, the league itself has run at a loss, and in July 2025 the sport hit its […]
More Indian companies than ever are looking outward. Buying a business in another country used to feel like something only the biggest names could do. Today, a mid-sized firm in Pune or a growing brand in Ahmedabad can seriously plan an overseas acquisition — as long as they understand the rules and plan the money […]
Something fundamental has shifted in how the world thinks about energy and about where serious capital belongs. A decade ago, green energy was largely a policy story. Governments subsidised it, activists championed it, and most institutional investors treated it as a niche allocation at best. Today, that framing is almost unrecognisable. Renewable energy has become […]
Running a bank or FinTech today means operating in an environment that punishes complacency. Regulations tighten every year. Cyber threats grow more sophisticated by the quarter. And the pressure to digitize faster while staying compliant doesn’t ease up it compounds.Most institutions aren’t struggling because they don’t care about risk. They’re struggling because the old ways […]
Don’t Have a Finance Problem. You Have a Leadership Gap. Most manufacturing businesses we work with aren’t struggling because of bad products or weak demand. They’re struggling because no one in the business is doing what a CFO actually does sitting at the intersection of operations and finance, asking the hard questions before they become […]
What Bringing in Outside Capital Actually Does to Your Business? Most founders think about capital in terms of the cheque. How much. At what valuation. On what timeline. That’s understandable – when you’re trying to grow, funding feels like the constraint. It isn’t. Ownership is Who holds equity in your business determines how decisions get made, […]
Family Business Structuring & Governance Protect What You’ve Built For the People Who Come After You | SRC Most family businesses are started with very little formal structure. In the early years, that’s fine everyone knows their role, decisions get made around the dinner table, and trust holds things together. But as the business grows, […]
What Is a Shareholder Purchase Agreement in Ownership Transfers? Anytime ownership in a business changes hands a founder exits, an investor comes in, partners buy each other out, or a business gets acquired there’s a Shareholder Purchase Agreement at the Centre of it. It’s the document that defines what’s actually being agreed: the price, how […]
We’re working hard. But we making the right financial decision? Most businesses don’t struggle because of a lack of effort. They struggle because financial decisions get made without enough clarity, compliance gets treated as an afterthought, or growth happens faster than the structure can support. These are the kinds of problems that don’t announce themselves […]