David Horne’s publications

The share of funding secured by female founders is unfairly and disproportionately low, a state of affairs that has remained unchanged for many years despite advances made in other areas of gender equality in business. The truth is that there is clear and consistent bias against female founders. Experienced entrepreneur and fundraiser David B Horne provides useful insights on and proven strategies for raising different types of funding, including debt and equity funding, and how to prepare bids and approach investors. Crucially, he shares the experiences of female founders who have successfully overcome the gender bias and share David’s vision of a fairer world of fundraising and the steps being taken to achieve it.

Are you frustrated by the challenges of growing your business organically? Have you ever wondered if there was a way to grow exponentially? Fast? There is a better way but you’ll need to break a few rules in your thinking about business. This book shows you how. In Add Then Multiply, author David Horne shares with you the skills, experience and knowledge he has gained in an international business career spanning more than 30 years. Along with many other practical stories, he gives you the inside story of Huveaux plc, where he worked with the Founder to achieve 25x growth in revenue and 11x growth in profit in just three years. You’ll get the facts and details to apply his FACE methodology step by step, enabling you to achieve exponential growth in your business. Read this book to understand, and apply, each stage of David’s FACE methodology: Fund – explore your options to raise money Acquire – master the steps to take when you buy another business Consolidate – know your real challenge: putting two businesses together Exit – realise your dreams