Sentences with phrase «investing in businesses similar»

Not exact matches

If they already started to invest in another business too similar to yours, they might not gamble, in effect, against their own money!

If the Houston superstar does invest in the NBA franchise, she'll be cultivating a portfolio similar to that of her business mogul husband, Jay Z, who purchased a stake in the Brooklyn Nets in 2004 for a reported $ 1 million.

A private equity fund looks at the ERP issue similar to the No Marketing Spend — it's an opportunity to invest in the business, so better information is available to managers (and the private equity fund).

Facebook recently announced it plans to invest $ 1 billion in programs for small businesses in 2018 — an amount nearly equal to its investment in similar initiatives over the past seven years combined.

Similar concerns have also lowered spending on mergers and acquisitions — historically one of the top uses for corporate cash — and led businesses to cut back on investing in R&D and expansion.

A recent survey of European corporates by investment bank UBS showed a sharp uptick in French companies» capital expenditure (CapEx) spending intentions.2 We also expect to see a similar increase in the amount French companies plan to invest in their business.

Anticipating these cycles, in addition to avoiding the temptation to spend more capital when it's more abundant, can be particularly difficult for very new businesses that haven't experienced more than a season or two (one healthy season does not a cycle — or a trend — make), but investing time to research trends in your particular industry will help you evaluate how your business is performing compared to similar businesses within your industry.

BDCs were created by Congress in 1980 as a means to provide smaller U.S. businesses access to capital and allow average investors the opportunity to invest in private companies, enabling further diversification similar to that sought by large institutional investors.

First, an analysis of publicly - traded Vertical SaaS vs. Horizontal SaaS companies yielded some interesting results (since we primarily invest in emerging growth - oriented companies, we only included SaaS businesses with less than $ 250M in revenue and 15 % + CAGR)... Despite similar growth profiles (30 - 40 % forecasted revenue growth), our selected public Vertical SaaS businesses field EBITDA margins that are on average 20 % -25 % higher than our selected Horizontal SaaS businesses.

Crowdfunding Investment is similar to other crowdfuning initiatives, like Kickstarter, but rather than just raising money, equity crowdfunding would give investors shares in the small businesses they invest in.

The Commercial Capital Training Group offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to invest in a low cost, low overhead business model that is similar to a franchise, but offers a much higher profit margin in an extremely lucrative industry.

Taxpayers should take note that similar arguments for government «investments» in a business were put forward back in 2009 when the federal and Ontario government opted to «invest» in General Motors and Chrysler.

It is similar to how the «Sharks» on Shark Tank invest in entrepreneurs that pitch them their business model.

Dividend investing is similar to operating a real business in that your goal is to add product lines that increase your overall income.

BDCs were created by Congress in 1980 as a means to provide smaller U.S. businesses access to capital and allow average investors the opportunity to invest in private companies, enabling further diversification similar to that sought by large institutional investors.

In fact, he is a small business owner who's had a passion for investing since he was young (very similar to my story).

Investing in real estate for rental or later sale; starting a business or financially backing someone else's business as a partner or shareholder; trading in commodities like metals or food — similar to the first group, these are methods that will generate fluid money in the future.

By breaking stocks down by market cap, you can invest in a basket of companies in similar points in the business growth cycle.

In this way, the IBP Business Plan forces me to face situations similar to those encountered by young people and others new to Dividend Growth Investing — folks either unable to commit significant capital or uncomfortable doing so.

securities and securities of other regulated investment companies, and other securities (for purposes of this calculation, generally limited in respect of any one issuer, to an amount not greater than 5 % of the market value of a Fund's assets and 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer) and (ii) not more than 25 % of the value of its assets is invested in the securities of (other than U.S. government securities or the securities of other regulated investment companies) any one issuer, two or more issuers which the Fund controls and which are determined to be engaged in the same or similar trades or businesses, or the securities of certain publicly traded partnerships.

Among these requirements are the following: (i) at least 90 % of the fund's gross income each taxable year must be derived from dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock or securities or currencies and net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly traded partnership; (ii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships.

Because the Fund may invest more than 25 % of its total assets in municipal obligations issued by entities located in the same state or the interest on which is paid solely from revenues of similar projects, changes in economic, business or political conditions relating to a particular state or types of projects may have a disproportionate impact on the Fund.

Franchisees often share similar characteristics: They are not sophisticated business people or are not experienced with franchises; they are running a «mom - and pop - style» family business; they are usually financially (and more importantly, emotionally) invested in the business; and they have scraped together their life savings to open the franchise.