Need Money for Your New Business? Consider a Private Investor!
If you’ve come up with a great new idea for a business, but don’t have the funds necessary to start it, there is help. Private investors, also known as business angels, are ready and willing to give you the money you need. They are entrepreneurs themselves and they’ve made their way in the business world. This is their way of giving back, of helping others who are just starting out. There are however, some things you must be prepared to show them. They need assurances that you are not just going to accept their money and take a nice long vacation on a tropical island.
So how can you convince them that they need to invest with you? Here are some things you need to have in place before seeking out a private investor.
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A business plan: you need to be able to show an investor a comprehensive plan that includes income and expense projections for the next 5 years. Make sure to list your goals, your mission statement, marketing plans, projected growth statements and budgets.
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Experience: you need to provide proof that you have at least some business experience. (No, Working at McDonalds does not count as business experience.)
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Desire and Commitment: Are you willing to do what it takes to make your business work? Are you thinking of this venture as more a hobby, and hoping that it succeeds? Investors will only work with serious-minded individuals who put their heart and soul into their business and have spent a lot of time developing a plan for its success.
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Potential: Does your business have good growth and profit potential? Is it in a ideal location? Selling bathing suits in Alaska would probably not attract an investor’s attention.
As you can see, private investors do their research before handing over their money to would-be entrepreneurs. As investors, they will have an active role in how your business is run and will want to be included in major decisions. When you succeed, they succeed! By making sure you have a strong commitment, a solid plan, and some experience behind you, the greater your chances of attracting a private investor to your business.
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How do i become a successful investor and quit my 8 hour job?
I've seen many people who don't work, just stay home and claim that they are successful investors. I want that kind of life. How do i spot a good investment? Where do i look for these good investments? sorry if my question doesn't make any sense, what i'm trying to figure out is how to also be a successful investor who stays home and makes good money by just "investing". How many kinds of investments do you know of? and how many have worked for you? how many can you keep doing to make enough to quit your job?
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Umm,.. . why don't you ask the many investors that you see?
I would agree with Eddy that many investors are probably retired or close to it. Additionally, investing carefully was not the most likely key to their success, because most just pick simple mutual funds. Instead, I assert that spending carefully and SAVING so that they could start investing when they were young was the big factor.
Another possibility is your brother could form an S corp and give you a stake of shares of the business for an investment. I sold 2 20% stakes of my company and was able to raise around $20,000 to get started, while myself keeping the majority of shares. At the end of the year, if the company profited $100,000, shareholder A gets $20,000, shareholder B gets $20,000, and I get $60,000. You could negotiate the stake based on specifics to your business venture.
Out of curiosity, are you going to have the clothes made overseas? If so make sure you look into apparel quotas imposed by the US govt.
lets say shares cost $1000 each, meaning the NAV (net asset value) of each share is $1000
so when each investor paid $2000 they each got 2 shares.
On september 1st the value of the fund is $11,000 or $1,100 per share. Investor A takes out his money, he sells his shares to someone else for $1,100 per share or perhaps somehow he can just take out his $2,200. Then what would remain is a fund worth $9,800, with 8 shares, each worth $1,100.
Generally a stock split will happen for one of 2 reasons:
1) the company pays a regular dividend, but doesn't want to pay one this time around. They would then call the stock split a stock dividend, but essentially they are the same thing.
2) If the stock price is above what the company considered their optimal range. For example, if Company A feels their stock trades best at a price between $15-$45 then they will leave it alone. If all of a sudden the stock is trading for a long period of time at $70, the company would split the stock to bring the price back into the optimal range.
Signs of a split: if a company has a regular dividend coming, but earnings are down this year you may see a split instead of a cash dividend. Also if the company stock is trading much higher than its averages have been for the past few years then a split may be on the horizon as well.
Hope this helps!
Some investors want a share in the ownership which means a share of all the profits.
Others just want to receive a steady income. They are the ones who loan you money and get 7% interest; or the ones who buy bonds that your company sells…they also would pay 7%..
You are correct that no one would want to pay $50 per share for a stock that they could buy for $40 per share on the open market, but when someone sells a put option they understand and accept that (1) that may happen and (2) the decision is up to the holder of the option.
You should also understand that it is quite likely that the person who wrote the put option did so as part of a spread. For a fairly simple example of a spread trade I did earlier see
http://messages.yahoo.com/Business_%26_Finance/Investments/threadview?bn=4686677%23optiontradestraderecommendations&tid=3274&mid=3274
In that example I bought AMGN stock for $62.50 per share when it was trading for less on the open market, but I still ended up with a small profit.
I will review your exec summary on the 23rd, free.
I suggest you need no investors but a good IT team who can work
on spec if they believe.
No investor will talk to you unless you provide them with a valid business plan. Go to http://www.sba.gov , http://www.score.org or http://www.bplan.com for sample business plans and instructions on how to write a business plan.
Then, go to http://www.score.org/ and in the upper left hand corner, enter your zip code. On the next screen, you will get information on the nearest SCORE chapter. Call them and arrange for a free meeting with a SCORE counselor to review your business plan and discuss various loan options available to you.
SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
SCORE has 389 chapters in locations throughout the United States and its territories, with 10,500 volunteers nationwide. Both working and retired executives and business owners donate time and expertise as business counselors.