Conventional wisdom suggests that a recession is a difficult time to fund a new business venture, and yet many great businesses start during recessions – just look at Microsoft and Google. Certainly, in many sectors financing is scarce—or nonexistent. But in other areas, lively investing and lending markets have been observed, and a small business owner who's armed with the right opportunity knows where to uncover the money still has a great shot at securing the funding they need to grow.

MyVenturePad, with the help of our expert panel - professionals who specialize in early stage capital, both debt and equity funding - presents this webcast as a guide to the current fundraising market. We'll tell you what the financing market out there looks like, and what it takes to get funded today, in the U.S. as well as across the pond in the U.K.

In addition to taking questions live from our web audience, we'll cover:

• What investors and lenders are looking for in terms of sector and stage
• The alternative options for raising funding, including recent innovations such as crowd funding, as well as the conventional routes such as angel finance, Venture Capital and IPOs
• Where and when exits are going to happen.