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The Global Village Investment Club
By William Cate
Published November 2003
[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]
Angels like to "kick the tires." Angel investors are usually living within fifty miles of your office. Because of this policy. Angel investors want to reach out and touch their risk capital investments. They'll want fifty
percent equity in your business for their money. It's a losing formula for
the angels because more than half of their investments fail. However,
touching someone doesn't protect the investor from loss. Assuming an honest entrepreneur, a simple program to limit investment risk works better.
Sophisticated Investors want to quickly recover their risk capital.
Profits and ownership are secondary to risk management. I've taught this
risk management principle to my my clients for over for twenty years. For our money, we want a free ride on any company’s future success. We want our risk capital returned within weeks of our investment. We'll wait years to take our profit.
I'm creating the Global Village Investment Club on the same
principle. We'll invest in operating non-U.S. companies with a national market for their product or service. Management should be seeking money to expand their markets by asset acquisition or globalization. The business plan must be clear and specific. The upside potential in 5-7 years must be at least
tenfold the Club members investment.
WE WANT LIQUIDITY. This means the company must be willing to be public in the United States. We’ll expect the company to be acquired by a multination in a few years. Beowulf Investments will supply these companies the need public company services. The Global Village Investment Club will do PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equities) financings fund the companies initial acquisition in a M&A growth strategy.
The Club will do the Private Placement investments using U. S.
Federal Securities Laws to protect our members against fraud. This means the companies will be U.S. Public Companies.
Global Village Investment Club members will select their investments based upon an email newsletter that supplies hard data on the company and its plans.
If you are a sophisticated investor who understands that risk
management is more important that reward, we'd welcome you as a member. Please visit: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]
The GVIC investment strategy will be to return our member's risk
capital quickly. Our members will bury their remaining stock in the public
company for several years. Meanwhile, the public company will grow into a
multinational super company using an M&A growth strategy. We’ll all exit the company when its acquired by a major multinational corporation.
To contact the author: Visit the Beowulf Investments website: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] Or, visit the Global Village Investment Club Website:
[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]
Five Myths About Inflation
A classic definition of inflation is any increase in the money supply. Understanding inflation is vital to anyone seeking investment profits or attempting to build a successful company. As with most basic issues of the global economy, inflation is surrounded by myths and misinformation.
Recession Planning
The clouds of a 2006 Recession are starting to form on America's horizon.Politicians know that Recessions or Depressions are bad for their reelectionchanges. Bad economic times tend to create unemployment among the nice folksholding office at the time of economic stress. You can expect the Governmentto do everything possible to delay a Recession until after the November 2006election. However, the American economy is currently caught in an upwardmoving inflation and a Recession would still the fires of a runawaycurrency. The Real Estate Bubble may be about to burst. And, America'sfinancial institutions appear to be in increasing trouble over failedderivative bets.
African Aid
Africa, like everywhere else in the world, has its fair share of honest, intelligent; hardworking people who want to see their families have a better standard of living. Unfortunately, most of these people are living below the poverty line. The reasons that Africa, with all of its natural resources, is an economic basket case are complex. They start with the 16th Century Africans' failure to adopt an effective immigration policy. The result was the European immigrants divided up the continent without regard to historic tribal boundaries. The modern result has been tribal wars waged with modern weapons from the Sudan to Rwanda.
