Startup Angel

Travis Kalanick, angel investor and successful serial entrepreneur, on what’s happening with angel investing, Oct 2010

I am 13 Years old and I am an Entrepreneur. I own my own IT Company and I would like to know If I can Invest in Stock at my age.
I am in the State of Missouri.

I am seeking private investors for a new retail startup company here in major cities throughout the United States. The idea has the potential to expand in multiple cities and it will be a major player in the market and the compitetion will feel the pressure.

I am seeking investors under the SEC Rule 501 under Regulation D or private placement investors. Minimum investments start at $125,000.00 US dollars to be used to purchase equipment, secure store location and build out for each location.

Each location will command between $125,000.00 to $150,000.00. Your investment is a 3 year investment with a return on investment higher than what is offered at a bank or investment firm. The risk is very low, It is a $22.5 billion/year industry and growing; it enjoys a 95% hardware saturation of consumer households.

I have full support of the manufacture for sole distibution rights in parts of the Untited States, please contact me for an Excutive summary! Serious replys only Please!
alpha10unc, to make a statement that Yahoo is not a credible source for information and resources is an insult to Yahoo and the others who use this site! You have not reviewed my business plan to be in the position to comment on the validity of the plan or the concept. No where in my statement did I say that others would not invest. I am not seeking negative people; I am looking for other methods of finance. As far as the 3 F’s are concerned, you have no bases to know who has invested or the amount. I would suggest that in the future you stick to answering questions that you have a real answer. We are here to help one another not to read answers from people that don’t think before they speak/answer. People want answers not insults! Sir you are not a good addition to this site!
Thanks for the information Danny, You are a credit to this site!

Hi! I’m Kim Cooper and like Oprah and millions of other people around the world, I love reading in the bathtub, but holding my reading material left me frustrated with a soggy book; so I created the TUB TABLE! The tub table’s Patented design allows the table top to rotates off the center axis, lock in a verticle position and pivot INVERTED while holding your reading material, so you don’t have to! Multiple tray designs accomodate electronic viewing and listening devices. Two styles – a wall mounted design and a floor model. The floor model has a magazine rack, beverage holder w/a removable base. Both styles come with a conveniently located towel ring so you can dry your fingers when it’s time to turn the page and a space saver design allowing users to enjoy regardless of room size or available floor space. The ERGONOMICAL design makes this product in line for a DMEPOS status, which will make this table Doctor recommendable and insurance reimbursable. Perfect product for the hospitality, retail, medical, wholesale markets. It’s a must have table for seniors, the disabled, rehabilitating and people of all ages seeking time for total relaxation while reading in the bath or bed, anywhere. Key Features *Table INVERTS holding reading material. •Multiple trays designs accomodates electronic viewing/listening devices, hobbiests (crafting, HABA etc) *Magazine rack *Beverage holder *Towel ring *Space saver design Comparisons/Competition – NONE! •Only caddy style devices with an …

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By Gill Guillory

Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He makes it with a machine he could not possibly have made himself. He does not know where it was made, or how it works, and may not care. He does not know the people that planted, cultivated, harvested, dried, roasted, packaged, freighted, warehoused, distributed, marketed, or retailed his coffee, and may not care. The company that insures the manufacturer of the coffee machine required that it meet certain safety guidelines, as established by the private insurance-company-funded Underwriters Laboratory. Joe has seen the UL mark, but is not really sure what it’s for or how it protects him. He doesn’t clearly understand why greedy businessmen might be interested in a safe product. All of this was made possible by libertarians who fought for and won the legal right to free trade.

He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water which he bought from Ozarka, because the local government monopoly of water supply bears the comforting designation of “accepted” and also tastes funny.

He thinks back to going to church on Sunday. He is happy to have a community where he can participate with other like-minded people in ceremony. This was made possible by the long struggle to disentangle church and state, and his church enjoys the absence of taxation. He wishes other aspects of his life could be so free.

He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee, and then he takes a long drag on a cigarette. He bought his medication while on a trip to Mexico, where, thanks to less regulation and looser enforcement of IP laws, they were much cheaper. His medications are safe to take because he bought them from a reputable dealer. He can still afford cigarettes and can still legally purchase them, because of those who continue to fight for his rights, even if his exercise of those rights might harm him or his family.

Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; it is fragranced with some sort of exotic flower and there are strange chemicals in it – god knows what – and he bought it, well, because he liked the picture of the kangaroo on the bottle. He luxuriates in his bourgeois moment in the shower, a luxury unavailable to even the most wealthy of only 200 years ago. He is able to have many of such seemingly simple luxuries because some greedy businessmen sought enormous profits in the only way they could: satisfying consumer demand.

Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because the accumulation of capital over centuries has now brought the discounted marginal value product of a schmuck like Joe to unimaginable heights. Joe doesn’t know anything about economics because he doesn’t have to. He is no smarter than his forbears, and he works less. Nonetheless, because he participates in a world-embracing division of labor where his specialized work on a growing capital base is greatly valued, he is richer.

Joe’s employer pays these standards because if they don’t, his employer’s competitors will.

It’s noon time. Joe doesn’t need to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills – he uses online banking and direct deposit. He has no idea how these systems work, or what a banking clearinghouse is, but he is able to use these services at the lowest cost practicable because banks compete for his business. Notwithstanding the massive interventions to the business of banking, such as the creation of central banking and the Federal Reserve system and the repudiation of the gold standard, he is able to weather the government-induced business cycles and inflation by investing in mutual funds, annuities, stocks, bonds, REITs, real estate, precious metals, and other investment vehicles. He is able to do this because of greedy entrepreneurs and libertarians who fought against usury laws.

The online banking leaves him free to take a moment to browse amazon.com for his favorite books, movies, and music.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dad’s; his car is not among the safest in the world because he chose not to buy a Volvo. His brother has a Volvo, but he has a gas-guzzling muscle car. He has this choice because nationalization of the auto industry was prevented.

He arrives at his rural boyhood home. The house didn’t have any good programming choices until DirecTV offered an array of programming and high-speed Internet, too. His dad uses a VCR, which only became affordable to him after lots of rich people bought the early, expensive versions and the manufacturers improved the designs and cut costs. In fact, his dad has a cell phone, TiVo, refrigerator, microwave oven, and a CD player – all of which became affordable to him because they were first the toys of the super-rich, and the crackpot schemes financed by the wealthy ent
entrepreneurs willing and able to risk their money in such endeavors.

He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on a reverse mortgage – a recent market innovation. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home. He turns on a radio talk show. The host keeps saying that libertarians are kooks and anarchists and thank God for continual market intervention and government protection. Government intervention and taxation improves and will continue to improve the standards of living of Americans. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Democrats/Republicans have fought to destroy every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day.)

Joe agrees, and puts his support behind protectionism, taxation, monopolies, interventionism, and war: these are obviously the things upon which civilization is built.
Sorry for accidentally cutting the ending off charlie.

An introduction explaining the current state of my company and why I am seeking funding. I am not new to business. I started, grew, and sold my previous company in 2009. I grew it to $483000 in revenue in 7 years. I owned the company for 14 years. OrganizeYourExistence is my second company.

I and two other investors have become an LLC. We are looking to purchase, rehab and rent out properties to create a great real estate portfolio and branch out seperately at a latter date after securing residual income. We need some advice on how to begin the loan process and getting the ball rolling now that we have become a limited liability company. All of us have good jobs and 2 have credit scores above 600 and 700. The other partner’s credit is below 500. How do we approach a lender with the credit issues. Thanks!