Family Fortunes

You've built it up from scratch. Years of hard work. Late nights. Stress. Tension. Now, just as the company's beginning to bear fruit, it needs capital to expand. Not just a bit of input from a few sleeping partners or the bank, but large amounts of capital from outside investors. Floating is the only way forward yet you don't want to give up control. Maintaining a stake of more than 50 per cent may seem the obvious answer but that would still mean having to provide answers to those other