It all starts with investors, people in a position to invest money in a business endeavor.
Investors are people in a position to invest money in a business endeavor.
In general, the best way to get in front of angel investors is by asking people in your network for introductions.
Before the JOBS Act kicks in, angel investors (around 750, 000 people in the US) are already revolutionizing the startup investment process.
But will the stock be as reliable in making a profit for investors as the railway is in moving people around?
But whereas in America many investors prefer to back people who have already tried and failed, in Britain failure is still stigmatised.
Pet ownership is not well established in Asia, and Qian Hu has put a good deal of energy into educating its customers and investors about why people might want pets in the first place.
In a letter to investors, Hastings credited the gains to people's interest in watching a wide range of entertainment on the tablet computers and Internet-connected TVs that they got as holiday gifts.
Large, state-controlled lenders China Development Bank Corp. and Export-Import Bank of China are planning to pitch dim-sum bonds in London to investors, said people familiar with the matter.
Also, one of the people said prospective investors in the Mets won't be provided with financial information about the team's cable network, another indication that the lucrative sports channel won't be included in any deal for a minority stake in the team.
Quite simply, individual U.S. investors are not the only people investing in the U.S. stock market.
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Deutsche Bank executives have been meeting in recent weeks with senior investment bankers to sound them out about how much capital the bank would need to raise to placate investors, according to people who participated in the meetings.
Even if bad vibes from the French government keep Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) from bidding for French rival Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), it still remains a firm to watch for investors in American drug companies such as Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) and Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ), who compete directly with the Swiss giant.
Kadambi points out that it is much easier for people to get access to investors in Silicon Valley than in Taiwan or Singapore.
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Tata Consultancy Services, one of the largest Indian investors, employs more than 2, 000 people in Britain.
For instance, he argues that investors should be able to make equity investments in young people that they can use as an alternative to student loans to pay for to college.
But lots of people have a vested interest in keeping investors in the dark about that fact.
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Business Objects ( BOBJ - news - people ) in late 2007, so investors may react with concern to Brandt's latest comments.
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Some senior SEC officials had misgivings about the potential Netflix lawsuit, and at least one of the agency's five commissioners questioned whether the agency should punish the company when there were no clear and up-to-date guidelines, no evidence the company acted in bad faith and no apparent harm to investors, people familiar with the probe say.
The ten ordinary people, who are also outstanding investors, profiled in my book are living proof that this works.
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Share-trading systems were also clogged up as investors piled in after a holiday to mark the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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Amid the fun-house mirrors of insider trading rules, we now live in a world where the only investors free of suspicion are people who channel their money into companies they know nothing about.
Pension funds from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore without QFII licenses may be among the first batch of investors to be included in the new plan, one of the people familiar with the matter said.
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There are two types of people in the room: grant makers and social investors.
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Ordinary people and individual investors finally have a chance to participate in the evolution of the energy grid.
Rather like the tendency of investors to buy dollars or gold bullion in times of uncertainty, rich people purchase more expensive jewelry.
Self storage owes its growing appeal to a perception among investors that the industry is recession-proof because people need storage in times of personal upheaval, natural disasters or a move.
An unknown portion of the bulge in sales of large life policies reflects a practice in which older people buy policies and resell them to investors, who pay the premiums and become the beneficiary.
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"Almost half of the resale homes that are happening right now are to investors, so we're finding that people who are participating in our program are having to make upwards of 20 offers ... to compete with investors, " Bears said.
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