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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Ways of Making Money

Startups ask me “How much money should I ask for?” The simple answer is the absolute minimum amount you need to make your plan work. Some entrepreneurs try to start with a huge number, hoping they can negotiate and close on a smaller one, while others understate their requirements, in hopes of getting their foot in the door with an investor.

Neither of these strategies is a good one, as both are likely to damage your credibility with potential investors, even before they look hard at your plan. Here are the parameters you should use in sizing your request, and be able to explain in justifying your request to investors:

Consider implied ownership cost. If your company is early stage and has a valuation under $1M, don’t ask for a $5M investment. The investor would be buying your company five times over, and he doesn’t want it. If your valuation is around $1M, you can validly ask for $200K-$300K, and offer 20%-30% of your company in exchange.
Type of investor. Angel investment groups usually won’t consider a request over $1M, while venture capitalists won’t look at anything under $2M. Amounts of $100K or less, are usually relegated to “friends and family.” Approaching any one of these groups with a funding request outside their range is a waste of your time and theirs.
Company stage. If your company is still in the “idea” stage, you have no valuation, so size your investment request on the basis of “goodwill” that you have with your rich uncle, and your business track record. Angels might be interested during “early stage” if you have a prototype, but VCs won’t bite until you have a product, customers, and revenue.
Calculate what you need, and add a buffer. Do your financial model first with the volume, cost, and pricing parameters you want. See where your cashflow bottoms out. If it bottoms out at minus $400K, add a 25% buffer, and ask for $500K funding. The request size must tie into your financials to be credible.
Investment terms. The most common case is an equity investment, but there are many terms that can impact what request size is credible. I’m talking about things like anti-dilution clauses, preferred versus common stock, valuation tied to later round, warrants, and bridge loan options. More restrictive terms reduce the credible investment amount.
Single or staged delivery. In many cases, a single investment request may be scheduled for delivery in stages, or tranches (often misspelled as traunchs or traunches), based on milestone achievement. Obviously, this reduces investor risk and allows a larger commitment, since they can limit their loss if you fail to meet key objectives.
Use of funds. Investors expect to see a “use of funds” list, and they expect the uses to apply only to your core mission. In other words, don’t tell investors that you intend to buy a fancy office building or executive cars with your funding. Even executive salaries should be minimal at this stage.
Projected return on investment. Most entrepreneurs skip this step, but it helps your credibility to include it. Estimate a return on investment (ROI) by projecting company valuation at exit, to show the investor who has 20% what he will get back for that initial investment. He’s looking for a 10x return, since he assumes only one in ten survive.

Obviously, determining the proper size of your investment request is a non-trivial exercise, but it’s one of the most critical factors for investors in making a decision to invest or not to invest in your company. You need to get it defensibly right the first time, because changing your request under pressure definitely will kill your credibility.

The days are gone, if they ever existed, when you could present an idea and a vision, and have investors throw money at you. Now you have to do your homework. Get busy, and have fun.

Marty Zwilling

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Consider implied ownership cost. If your company is early stage and has a valuation under $1M, don’t ask for a $5M investment. The investor would be buying your company five times over, and he doesn’t want it. If your valuation is around $1M, you can validly ask for $200K-$300K, and offer 20%-30% of your company in exchange.
Type of investor. Angel investment groups usually won’t consider a request over $1M, while venture capitalists won’t look at anything under $2M. Amounts of $100K or less, are usually relegated to “friends and family.” Approaching any one of these groups with a funding request outside their range is a waste of your time and theirs.
Company stage. If your company is still in the “idea” stage, you have no valuation, so size your investment request on the basis of “goodwill” that you have with your rich uncle, and your business track record. Angels might be interested during “early stage” if you have a prototype, but VCs won’t bite until you have a product, customers, and revenue.
Calculate what you need, and add a buffer. Do your financial model first with the volume, cost, and pricing parameters you want. See where your cashflow bottoms out. If it bottoms out at minus $400K, add a 25% buffer, and ask for $500K funding. The request size must tie into your financials to be credible.
Investment terms. The most common case is an equity investment, but there are many terms that can impact what request size is credible. I’m talking about things like anti-dilution clauses, preferred versus common stock, valuation tied to later round, warrants, and bridge loan options. More restrictive terms reduce the credible investment amount.
Single or staged delivery. In many cases, a single investment request may be scheduled for delivery in stages, or tranches (often misspelled as traunchs or traunches), based on milestone achievement. Obviously, this reduces investor risk and allows a larger commitment, since they can limit their loss if you fail to meet key objectives.
Use of funds. Investors expect to see a “use of funds” list, and they expect the uses to apply only to your core mission. In other words, don’t tell investors that you intend to buy a fancy office building or executive cars with your funding. Even executive salaries should be minimal at this stage.
Projected return on investment. Most entrepreneurs skip this step, but it helps your credibility to include it. Estimate a return on investment (ROI) by projecting company valuation at exit, to show the investor who has 20% what he will get back for that initial investment. He’s looking for a 10x return, since he assumes only one in ten survive.

The days are gone, if they ever existed, when you could present an idea and a vision, and have investors throw money at you. Now you have to do your homework. Get busy, and have fun.

Marty Zwilling

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Monday, August 1, 2011

About Making Money

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.” H.G. Wells

Wells’ above quote could be applied to a multitude of things. For myself as an investment manager, the risk of falling prey to confirmation bias and shallow analysis can be dangerous. In the confirmation bias, people tend to favor/believe information that supports their current views & hypotheses.

Being intellectual honest about our thesis and rationale for investments is critical to success. How can we become better investors if our thought process isn’t consistently challenged? Are we taking the path of least resistance in our analysis and analytical rigor? Here are a few signs to watch out for:

Scouring for confirming views: Jason Zweig once wrote that, “…people are twice as likely to seek information that confirms their beliefs then they are to consider evidence that contradicts them.” Do you carefully considering opposing views?

Easily shaken out by fluctuations: How can you have faith to ride out short-term fluctuations without the confidence of a full vetted idea? While there is nothing wrong with having tight stops and loss disciplines, it is a whole lot easier to be shaken out if you don’t trust the idea.

Lack of conviction: What is the point of holding a stock that you don’t have high conviction in? I’d rather own an index fund than a stock I don’t love. Investors lukewarm on a holding end up becoming “long-term investors” as they are inevitably under water.

Loss Aversion: Does your original investment thesis still hold? If not are you only holding as you are reluctant to take a loss? Cut bait and get out. These situations lead to investors taking on more risk due to their loss aversion.

Obviously a well vetted idea doesn’t guarantee success, however a lack of reasonable diligence is inexcusable. Making money is too difficult to lose it on stupid decisions. Take a look at your holdings today and ask yourself why you are still holding it? Does it still meet your original criteria?

Rick Cesari (@cesaridrtv) is a regular guy who did what every businessperson is supposed to do and talks about doing but rarely does. He spotted a trend, turned it into an opportunity and created millions in sales. And now, he’s sharing his stories, insights and experiences in his book, Buy Now: Creative Marketing That Gets Customers to Respond to You and Your Product.

I received a review copy from Rick’s team and also had the opportunity to chat with Rick and ask him a few behind the scenes questions. I found him to be extremely engaging and fun to talk to; he was full of ideas and stories that made it hard to hang up!

How Rick Cesari’s Story Changed Direct Marketing

Rick’s story begins like many of ours. He went to college and got a summer job as a lifeguard. One of the ways he could make extra cash as a lifeguard was to sell suntan lotion. This is where he learned to use a winning formula to make extra money: Present a problem, offer a solution and then explain how his product was better than anything else out on the market today. It wasn’t just a winning formula for selling suntan lotion, it was a winning formula for selling some of the most successful products of the last 30 years.

In the late 1970s, Cesari got involved with real estate. Rick produced real estate seminars that ended up making more money for the real estate gurus than their real estate strategies ever did. And when Ronald Reagan deregulated television in 1982, this changed everything. Before 1982 advertisers could only purchase 8 minutes of advertising an hour. But after deregulation, they could purchase an hour of advertising time! Cesari knew he was on to something. He would use the lessons he learned by selling suntan lotion and real estate to revolutionize direct response marketing.

Buy Now is a terrific combination of real life case studies and lessons in direct response marketing. Just because you have no intention of creating an infomercial doesn’t mean that you have nothing to learn from this book. In fact, the core principles behind each and every example such as SoniCare Toothbrushes or the OxyClean brand has something wonderful to offer for every entrepreneur, business owner or sales and marketing professional.

Take the Time to Test for Increased Profitability

Here is a terrific example from Chapter 14 titled, “The Offer Is King.” If you think that the price level drives the offer, you would be wrong. Selling product is more about the offer than the price. Rick recommends having a variety of different offers to test. “You will always be tempted to test an offer that makes YOU the most money upfront. That’s not smart and it’s not accurate.”

Cesari goes on to share a powerful story of a piece of exercise equipment that was in the $200 price range. Of course they had a payment plan. First they tried three payments of $79. They couldn’t break even. Then they tried six payments of $39 – that did even worse. Finally they did something completely different. They offered a trial payment of $14.95 for the first 30 days. They used the increased call volume to research other price points and actually settled on $700!

As it turned out, when the consumers saw the $200 price tag, they assumed the machine was low quality – and didn’t buy. But once they had it in their home, they were able to justify a much higher price.

Another of my favorite sections is the discussion about why everything is priced at $19.95 and $39.95. Would you believe that this isn’t true – it just seems that way!

After running many tests, Cesari found that consumers see product price in terms of $20 increments; $19.95, $39.95, $49.95 and $59.95. In fact, when tested, consumers see very little difference between $29.95 and $39.95. The same is true at the $49.95 and $59.95 price points. Consumers just didn’t see that much of a difference in price – but you bet your bottom line will. This section alone can change your profitability almost immediately!

Who Should Read This Book

Buy Now is an ideal book for sales and marketing people, business owners and inventors. This is a book you will want to read with pen and paper by your side. My copy already has plenty of dog-eared highlights and underlines. The Cesari Direct website contains a video with a quick introduction to the book by Rick himself.

Cesari’s focus on the basics of tripping customer emotions and focusing on benefits that resonate with customers will inspire you to look at your marketing a whole new way.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Making Money With Options

Of course we know that it is a crisis not in a sense that the Federal Government is unable to honour all its obligations, a point which I have been making repeatedly. It is a political game of chicken, the result of which can threaten global economic growth.

Debt ceiling itself is something rather pointless. It has never been able to constraint government spending, and the Congress has been raising it routinely, at least until now. Yet it gives opportunities for some pointless political posturing every time when the borrowing limit is reached. As Calculated Risk puts it:

The debt ceiling is a joke. It serves no purpose except political posturing. It is not about the deficit – it is about paying the bills, and the U.S. will pay the bills.

A similar point has been made by James Surowiecki at the New Yorker:

The truth is that the United States doesn’t need, and shouldn’t have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. There’s no debt limit in the Constitution. And, if Congress really wants to hold down government debt, it already has a way to do so that doesn’t risk economic chaos—namely, the annual budgeting process.

Now, there are ways around the debt ceiling which may or may not have been considered by the Obama Administration, as explained by Yves Smith.

Here are the three ways around:

Use the 14th amendment of the constitution to declare (or threaten to declare) debt ceiling as unconstitutional – but it seems that the administration is reluctant to use this.

Cancel the US government debts held by the Federal Reserve – the government can probably cancel a trillion or two of debts, large chunk of them purchased during the quantitative easing programme. This can buy a year or two, perhaps.

Coin Seigniorage – this requires a little bit more explanation.

The third option, as explained in great detail here, uses the fact that the US Mint can create a platinum coin of any arbitrary face value. The profit from seigniorage (i.e. the face value of this coin minus the cost of making this coin) can somehow go into the Treasury General Account. The Mint can, for instance, mint a few US$1 Trillion platinum coins, book the seigniorage profit at the Federal Reserve Mint’s account, then “sweep” that to the Treasury General Account, magically solving all deficits problems.

It is not quite so clear to me if these are politically viable options, and it is also not quite so clear to me if any of these can be useful tactics on the negotiation table for President Obama to get his way. But at least there are ways around this joke.

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eBay owned PayPal has been making some interesting acquisitions over the past few months that clearly show the direction of the company in capturing payments flow from digital goods, and physical products at a local level. The company bought local payments and advertising company Where for over $100 million in April, snapped up mobile payments company Fig Card and most recently shelled out $240 million for mobile payments company Zong. The payments giant is clearly serious about mobile and local payments and is buying its way into commanding the space. In terms of future strategy, PayPal believes that by 2015 digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the U.S., from local businesses to large chains.

Of course, this ambitious goal is easier said than done. Considering that PayPal is a digital product and doesn’t have built in reach to local businesses with point of sale systems, scaling to the local level is going to take a significant amount of work. We were able to chat with Sam Shrauger, VP of global product and strategy for PayPal about the company’s future strategy to dominate the ‘digital wallet.’

Shrauger tells us that PayPal’s plan is less about making the wallet digital and more about letting people take advantage of technology to use money better. As for making this a reality, Shrauger says that letting people use PayPal in the physical world is critical for the payments technology.

He explains that innovating in the payments space in the physical world is about giving customers mor options to pay, as opposed to offering a single technology. PayPal wants to add more ways your money can work for you, beyond just the payment itself. As for what that means, Shrauger declined the reveal the company’s plans but did say that PayPal would be launching new products later this year dealing with this issue.

There are two advantates PayPal has in its favor. First, the company now has over 100 million active users, which is impressive. And second, the company’s userbase is increasingly using mobile devices to pay for products. PayPal recently announced that it was upping the estimates of the amount of mobile payments transactions using the technology this year; doubling the estimate to $3 billion in mobile total payments volume (TPV) in 2011.

Payments in the physical world is going to be a big step for PayPal and I’m very curious how the company is planning to use its technology in this expansion. For Google, NFC and mobile phones are part of the gateway for payments in local, with the launch of Google Wallet. For Square, small businesses popularity and ease of use have been helping the mobile payments startup grow like crazy.

It’s not the first time I’ve pointed out that PayPal has an ambitious plan on its hands by becoming the digital wallet. And it should be interesting to see what killer technology the company has up its sleeve later this year.

Check out this video below in which PayPal President Scott Thompson challenges his employees to use only digital currency to pay for all of their purchases.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

How A Payday Loan Can Help You Monetarily

Have you attempted applying for a online payday loanat a financial institution and had no collateral, assets or good credit? If you stated yes you probably remember the sting of rejection that came from not getting the kind of lending contract that you required. Borrowing an amount of money, of any dimension, is tougher now than it had been just two many years ago and for people who require extra cash to spend for unexpected bills, medical costs or personal requirements obtaining a Payday Loan is the best choice.

How to Use For Payday Loans

If you would like to use to get a United kingdom Payday Loan or payday lending anyplace else in the globe you'll be asked to present the following items. one. Proof of earnings - A minimum of six months of consistent employment. two. Proof of age - You need to be 18 years aged or older. 3. Proof of bank account - This really is needed simply because you need to create a examine to be given the loan.

The typical payday agreement charges a high APR (Yearly Percentage Rate) that will assortment from .00 to .00 depending on just how much cash you borrow. The APR that payday lending companies charge has gotten a lot of flak lately and also the damaging feedback isn't usually based on honesty. The high APR that payday lending companies cost is substantial simply because the term with the mortgage is brief (generally 2-4 weeks). The APR can also be greater than on other lending contracts due to the comfort with the short phrase loan.

How you can Conserve Cash On Payday Loans

You are able to conserve money on online payday loanby choosing a local Payday Loan Lender over an on-line lender. But in the event you reside in a state where borrowing against your paycheck is outlawed you have to choose an online business. When you have your Payday Cash Mortgage approved, set priority to spend the loan off inside thirty days simply because the lengthier you drag out the contract, the much more cash you will pay in finance charges to the lender.

Track record Examine Someone Using Criminal Records

An employment background check is now generally done not only to potential employees but to current employees for promotion also. It is usually done to validate information discovered on an employee's resume or application form. It's also carried out to determine the best suited potential worker amongst the applicants. Also with what has happened on September 11, 2011, employers are actually very worried with the kind of workers they employ.

A track record investigation includes criminal, arrest, imprisonment, and intercourse offender paperwork. This is really a kind of check exactly where state records are examined to investigate if a potential employee or present employee continues to be convicted or charged with any crime in opposition to the state.

Citizenship, immigration and legal working standing checks are also carried out because American businesses are barred from employing unlawful employees from the Division of Homeland Security and its Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Division.

Litigation data are also checked. Workers who frequently file discrimination cases might be identified as being a danger to a business thus employers resort to litigation checks. Also, those businesses who do company using the authorities do not want to employ whistleblowers who file qui tam suits.

Driving and vehicle records will also be component of the track record check, especially whenever a potential employee is applying to get a driver place. Employers look for employees who have clean driving data or those who don't have any records of vehicular accidents or visitors tickets.

Drug test records will also be becoming checked. An employer would not wish to utilize drug addicts in his company due to corporate ethics, worker efficiency will probably be affected and improve of workers' compensation premiums.

Schooling data are also component with the criminal search investigation. This is carried out to confirm academic attainment of the potential worker and sometimes to check if applicant has had misdemeanor data in school.

Prior employment data might also be checked particularly if the applicant will fill a sensitive position in the company. This really is usually carried out verbally.

Monetary information can also be checked particularly in the event the position becoming filled requires someone to deal with huge quantity of cash.

For professionals, licensing data are checked for grievances, disciplinary actions and investigations.

Health-related, mental and physiological files will also be checked simply because a potential worker may not be match to work for health reasons. A written consent in the applicant should be procured before heading through the entire process.

Social safety number check is also done because identification theft is quite rampant. A past existence might be concealed or an applicant may not have fulfilled the citizenship necessity may be verified through the social security quantity.

Although most the above records are public records and can be procured from various government agencies in the United states of The united states, it's nonetheless extremely inconvenient for employers to do track record check on its potential employees and even current employees. There are a number of personal investigators who offer the support. Also, you will find 3rd celebration providers who also offer exactly the same type of support. There are also accessible on-line information banks which may provide the essential information about people. What they do is they buy U.S. public data and offer them online to get a charge.

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Individuals are by natural means apprehended by issues that are unpredictable, more so, if such can wreak havoc to their physical bodies and investments. Such risks to lives and attributes have merited the attention of numerous researchers, who have place forth fantastic amounts of time and power attempting to manipulate and predict dangers. That dangers continue to become unscheduled to this day is somewhat a testament that it continues to be an exercise in vain.

Perhaps, not completely, simply because their efforts have led other sectors and branches of discipline to, in the extremely minimum, alleviate the intense losses suffered by those that fall into a danger. The monetary industry, for example, have developed systems of risk management. On a person level, savings account can be opened for individuals to put together for dangers and other emergencies. On a company degree, risks can be shared among members of the group.

Hence, the concept of insurance is born into people?s consciousness. Now, The person paying this cost?the insured?has discovered a way to be guarded from the price of damaging risks, by simply anticipating them and paying for your price little by small. Obviously, the insurance coverage provider?or, insurer?also requires dangers within the transaction, in that the cost of the risk might be higher, especially if it happens soon after enforcing the insurance policy.

With the insurance coverage types available these days, auto insurance online, particularly the 3rd Celebration protection, is perhaps most common and often legally mandated by numerous governing bodies. The prevalence of automobile use as a mode of transportation is a powerful situation for obligating drivers to procure one. Aside from this, individuals around the wheels need to consider into account other relationships in addition to with their very own automobile and passengers. There are other drivers and passengers around the road, pedestrians, and attributes belonging to personal people and the government.

Some drivers will add other types of instant car insurance in addition to their existing public insurance coverage policies. One that's often neglected and ignored will be the Underinsured or Uninsured Motorists (UM/UIM) protection. This is rather important in the occasion of an accident wherein the party at fault is not covered by any type of insurance coverage, or is covered insufficiently. With UIM protection, the insurer pays for the hospital expenses of the insured and liaisons with the driver?or his insurance provider?faulted for your incident.

Smarter driver often go for full protection to be hedged from losses incurred as a result of risks, described as ?acts of God?, such as severe weather circumstances. Other damages consequently of fire, theft, or animal attacks are also covered beneath such car insurance coverage. Full coverage is a combination of Complete and Collision protection, each of which are deductibles, paid outdoors of the premium. Driver who desires to spend a lower top quality often select to just pay these deductibles out-of-the-pocket.

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Eliminate Credit rating Card Debt Quick

Some are even searching at personal bankruptcy within their hard work to obtain rid of bank card financial debt. Bank card debt settlement could aid a borrower avoid that.

seven to 10 Many many years

Bankruptcy includes a very extended phrase negative influence on the purchaser who uses it to get out of financial debt. But, plenty of Us residents are going via personal bankruptcy. Bankruptcy can remain in your credit score report from 7 to ten a long time. That smudge in your credit report will make it pretty tough to obtain a residence, or a automobile, or even a career, within the future. There are other options to bankruptcy for these with mind-boggling monetary debt, credit score online or in any other case.

Credit card debt Settlement a Terrific Option to get rid of Credit score Card Credit card financial debt

One these sorts of choice that exists is really a tactic recognized as financial debt settlement. What transpires is the fact that a debtor negotiates having a creditor to spend back a part of the financial financial debt. Hunting in the choice - missed payments, frequent reminders and cellphone calls, bankruptcy - a creditor might probably very properly be keen to go over a lower payback quantity or decrease month to month payments. Specifically with so plenty of buyers facing personal bankruptcy or the prospect of defaulting, most collectors are delighted to get some money considerably than none. Forestalling bankruptcy may be an outstanding effective condition for both equally you and your creditor.

Credit score score Card Financial debt Settlement Negotiation

Approaching a loan business, perhaps a single you've needed to deal with within the past and not on the most amicable circumstances, can be daunting. There's also a good offer of financial track document awareness the regular buyer just doesn't have. The typical shopper just does not have a superior maintain on their rights and strengths.

Pennies on the Dollar towards Eliminating Bank card Financial debt

Monetary debt settlement needs a credit score online negotiator approaching every single lender and negotiate a pay-back choice. Usually, this complete may be truly important -- up to 50% or perhaps a lot more of the authentic debt. So fairly a few people at present are on the brink of personal catastrophe, typically hunting to personal bankruptcy. Since of the, numerous creditors are relieved to become obtaining anything around the credit card financial debt considerably than subsequent to nothing. That can occur quickly need to a borrower declare bankruptcy.

Discovering a Negotiator

Credit card financial debt negotiators know how to tactic lenders along with other collectors. They have an in-depth know-how of financial markets, financial developments, and also the fluctuation of curiosity costs and currencies. This info may be priceless when it arrive to negotiating a financial financial debt settlement. Also, just following preliminary negotiations, the negotiator will probably be ready to offer you the overcome shopper as to their rights and choice pertaining towards the bank card financial debt.

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Once all of the negotiations have taken region, and this can acquire weeks, particularly when you have much more than 1 or two collectors with whom you're generating an try to eliminate credit card financial debt, the payments will probably be created towards the negotiator and she or he will hold track that the circumstances they've negotiated are stored. The debtor will end up doing 1 particular cost-effective payment the second a month, to 1 particular location, at one interest rate.

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