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Welcome to The Gauntlet

Do you need investment for your innovation-based business and want to improve your chances of success? Then take the challenge and run The Gauntlet.
The Gauntlet is a ground-breaking, online service. It tests you and your business to see if you're ready for investment. The Gauntlet works like a virtual investor. It challenges you to answer all of the critical questions investors will ask and explains why they ask them.
After running The Gauntlet, you will get a personal, confidential Report Card, scoring your investor-readiness across 16 key areas with detailed feedback identifying the areas you need to address for investment success.
The Gauntlet is an incredible learning resource. You will have privileged access to top-tips from the experts, case studies, articles, an investment glossary and a wealth of video clips including original footage from BBC TV's Dragons' Den series.
Investors don't give second chances. Be smart before the event, not wise after ….

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"The Gauntlet will make a significant contribution…by equipping entrepreneurs with the perspectives that venture firms bring to the table" - Chris Smart, IDG Ventures

"The Gauntlet is an excellent educational tool for any business. Lotus Engineering was able to apply the lessons taken from the Gauntlet and use them within their own business to help them understand the commercial opportunities of in-house technologies that lie within their R&D department." - Steve Woolley, Advanced Concepts Group at Lotus Engineering

"By going through the self-assessment program (Gauntlet), private technology companies should emerge better equipped for whatever the future has in store for them." - Warren East, CEO, ARM

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