Fund Raising Secrets for Startups & Early Stage Companies
Filed under: Business-Services, Financial Services, Investment Opportunities, Recommended, Venture Capital & Private Equity
If you are leading any type of business, then you will be making decisions about capital structure – how much equity, how much debt – what sources, when, etc?
It does not matter whether you are a start-up or a Fortune 100 company. In fact, capital raising and venture funding is one of the most common areas where our clients seek help.
Here’s something interesting and immediately useful. We recently completed the study of a very informative and practical EBook on raising capital for Start-ups and Early Stage Companies.
We believe this is the most comprehensive guide available on the topic of Raising Capital, and the entire process surrounding it.
Based on our research, this is the most detailed and practical ebook on the topic of capital raising available on the Internet, written by professionals who have raised millions of dollars in business funding. Once you start reading the ebook, you will immediately see how much value is there in the book.
If you had to engage the services of Wall Street professionals like Timothy Daniel Hogan, it would cost over $1000 per hour, but you can get their life-long experience and lessons packed in this affordable ebook. So if you are involved with startups, or business funding in any way, this ebook is a must read. Read more
Investment Opportunities in UK for 2011-2012
Filed under: Biotech & Pharma, Capital Markets, Commodities, Crude Oil, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial Goods, Investment Opportunities, Natural Gas, Real Estate, Recommended, Renewable Energy
Hello Folks, since Jan 2011, we have been researching a few good Investment Opportunities in UK that can be used by investors and entrepreurs in our network – anyone based in the UK or abroad – location does not matter in such investments.
Our focus has been to look at businesses that are net exporters to the world, and have solid assets that will appreciate with time, even if the current economic weakness drags on for 1-2 years more. For some reason, many people in the UK automatically associate investment opportunities with property investments in the UK, but it does not have be like that because by investing in UK property, you are missing out on the growth happening in emerging economies like Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Many UK companies have business interests in these growth economies, and you must profit from them. Given the QE2 and overall positive liquidity in the global capital system, we believe natural resources are present a strong investment opportunity for anyone with 4 to 5 year timeframe.
Within the UK, Internet services, financial services, renewable energy, and pharma/biotech industries also present great investment opportunties that could give 25-50% return on investment in 2011-2012 timeframe. If you are interested to know more, please contact us .
Pioneer Investcorp – Financial Services Company in India
Filed under: Assets & Fund Management, Capital Markets, Financial, Financial Services, Insurance, Venture Capital & Private Equity
Pioneer Investcorp is a public listed company traded on the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) in India, with stock code: PIOINV. The company has a small but highly experienced and professional team led by Gaurang Gandhi, Founder and Managing Director. The company has built strong client relationhips in all service areas. The company is poised to benefit strongly from the strong economic growth in India in the coming years. Its base in Mumbai, the financial capital of India, further helps in participating activley in capital markets advisory services. Read more
Project Finance for Infrastructure Projects in India
Filed under: Business-Services, Energy, Financial, Financial Services, Industrial Goods, Power Systems, Recommended
As India metropolis gets cramped for room, need for infrastructure development – road, bridges, industry parks, railroad is paramount. It will only grow as the GDP growth puts additional pressure on feeble Indian Infrastructure. Limited budgetary support is possible – the rest needs to come through an effective “recourse financing” more commonly – project finance. Lenders (banks/financial institutions) finance project based on credit profile of project and not that of the borrowing party and as the name recourse would suggest, borrower too has limited liability as security is confined to project assets only and not borrower’s balance sheet. Read more
Crude Oil Futures Set To Trade on Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX)
Filed under: Capital Markets, Commodities, Financial, Financial Services
Financial Technologies (FT) Group’s Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX) has received final approval from Singapore authorities to operate as an international commodity and currency derivatives exchange there.
SMX is the first pan-Asian multi-product commodity and currency derivatives exchange. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) granted ‘Approved Exchange’ status to SMX to operate out of Singapore as a regulated and licensed exchange, a company release said here. SMX has announced four products, which will be traded when the exchange goes live:
- Gold futures contract with physical delivery
- West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude Oil
- Brent-Euro Crude Oil and
- Euro-US Dollar futures contracts
“SMX will create a new generation international commodity and derivative trading platform at par with best global exchanges in New York and London,” Financial Technologies Group CEO and SMX’s Vice Chairman, Jignesh Shah said. SMX is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Financial Technologies Group.

