Management is a seasoned group of finance professionals each of whom has been helping to fund new and small businesses for decades. We see this as an opportunity to fund those businesses using a new and fast growing marketplace, investment crowdfunding and to be well paid for our efforts.This is a lucrative business opportunity for up to three investors.
Hundreds of thousands of small businesses are actively looking for expansion capital every year. Most of these small businesses will get their funding from a bank and on the bank’s terms.
That often means personal guarantees and property liens. It always means a payment of principal and interest every month, like clockwork. No one would describe the terms or the process as being flexible.
Not every small business is acceptable to the banks’ standards. Businesses owned by women, minorities and first generation Americans also have difficulty getting funds to expand their businesses. Expanding a small business is risky and banks hate risks.
The SEC has provided a new simple type of crowdfunding specifically intended to help fund small business. Regulation CF allows smaller businesses to sell small amounts of debt or equity to small investors.
Advantaged Ventures LLC will create, register and operate an investment crowdfunding platform pursuant to SEC Reg. CF and compliant with FINRA’s rules for funding portals, under the name of Emerginggrowthfunding.com.
Working as a team we will help these small businesses structure a debt or equity offering on much better terms than they will get elsewhere; terms that will protect the business owners’ personal assets; terms that will improve their cash flow, fuel their growth and increase their bottom line; terms that will make their small offering attractive to investors.
We will also work with each of these small companies to help them find the investors that they need, investors who are willing to take additional risk with a small amount of money to get a higher reward.
We have already connected with a network of professional business and loan brokers who appreciate that a standard bank loan is not always the best route for a company to take. Several have suggested that they could keep our pipeline full all by themselves. Companies that offer and sell franchises want us to list and help provide funding for their new franchisees. We expect to develop multiple sources that can refer multiple offerings to keep our pipeline truly full.
We are seeking up to $150,000 from up to 3 investors who will understand why a group of seasoned finance executives would want to get into investment crowdfunding. We see that there is a lot of money to be made in this new and fast growing marketplace.
We expect to return that $150,000 to those investors within one year and are offering residual equity participation thereafter likely to return that amount many times over.
The math is simple.
We see a market where tens of thousands of small companies are looking for capital every month. Reg. CF allows a platform to charge a % of all funds raised and 5% is well within the industry norm.
If we help only one company a month raise $500,000, (our expected average offering) we will pay investors back by the end of our first year of operations. We actually expect to be closing several offerings per month by then. We anticipate that we can build the number of closings to six or more ($3 million) per month during our second year and eventually raise $5-$10 million per month and more.
That is why we think that serious investors who have read this far down will want to see our complete financial projections and learn about what other products and services we think that we can sell to the increasing number of investors who will come to the platform.
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