Utopian idea? Perhaps....

I love making money, like every other person. I understand that it takes hard work and discipline to achieve success, but it also takes money to make money. The more initial capital you have the possibility of having a successful business increases, as long as the model is sound. So..... Here's my thoughts.

I only watch one thread on this forum and that's the partnership section. I like to see what other people are doing and what the trends are. What if instead of everyone posting a new partnership and asking for $100-$500 on average, we create a collective of thinkers and pool our capital and become a venture capitalist firm. "One nation under wealth" sort of thing.
This idea came to me while bored at work. What are your thoughts?

 

Also, anyone with the idea "it takes money to make money" is labouring under a very false belief. The combination of minds can be a very powerful thing and doesn't necessarily demand a capital element. Ten thinkers pooling their ideas can be much more powerful than a couple of money-men throwing cash down a hole (which is what a capitally-derived business begins life as, a money-sucking hole). I would be interested in forming an ideas collective, however without a monetary requirement. Anyone can PM me if interested.

 

I understand that a group of powerful minds can be a amazing force of inspiration and originality. I love the idea of creating a "think tank" of individuals and throw some ideas around. Eventually you will need capital to take those ideas to market.

 

Rhetoric and semantics coupled with supreme confidence and a strong motivation. Wow!....... Hold on, I don't see a business plan here.
Now I get it....it's called dreaming, I stopped doing that when I was 12 years old as it never seemed to get me anywhere.

 

Talk about a party breaker....

I'm saying that I like your idea but you will have to think a lot before realizing it. You need a business plan...so start working on it and come back here and present it! Wish you all the best!

 

I agree that I require a business and marketing plan. This is an idea, nothing more then that. Upon my research I will start a plan or maybe not. Depends what I find.

 

As you can see in this report. In canada anyway venture capital dramatically increases the sales growth and revenue of corporations that recieve VC.

http://www.cvca.ca/files/Downloads/VC_Study_Final_English_September_4_2013.pdf

 

VC's, or Vulture Capitalists (as I prefer to call them based upon a couple of decades of experience with them) have very strict criteria as to whom they invest in and what that funding will be used for. Inevitably, a major portion of the funds are used for sales/marketing activities because that is what drives business growth which is one thing that they are after. So, it is not surprising that VC investment increases revenues of the companies that they invest in. However, growth in sales revenues is not enough for a VC. You also have to be profitable or at least showing the strong potential for profit.

The last number that I hear from the VC's is that about 1 out of 10 of their investments hits the marks they need to have a successful exit strategy (go public, get acquired, etc.). The other 9 do not perform as hoped and are basically investment failures, whether their sales grew or not.

Regarding the issue of an "ideas" collective: IMHO, the idea is not much in and of itself. The real value comes in the implementation, organization, production, nurturing, promotion, etc., of the business idea. That is why, in addition to funding, VC's will bring in the specific implementation skills that are missing in the company that began with a cool idea.

 

Please can explain why you need to refer to semantics while trying to dismantle someone's idea? Semantics are present everywhere in everyday language, and it wasn't even as if you tried to say "semantically null" or "semantically nonsensical", which to me seems like you are trying to baffle people with language; to what end I can't even begin to guess.

Dreaming it may be, but I find the notion of stepping on someone's dream without any grounding a little negative and very counter-productive. The way I see it, the OP tried to begin a thread that was very optimistic, and you tried to dismiss it as a pipe dream.

I say "good luck" to the OP and if there is anything I can do to help contribute, I'm all ears.

 

My point exactly, not sure how far you've gone in life. But I suspect that you may be a dreamer as well. I am very busy the next few days doing real business, don't really have time to post on this thread. I'll leave the two of you to your vivid imaginations.

 

How very constructive.

You may boast about doing "real business", but to me that's just a trait of a keyboard warrior. It also says nothing (and everything in volumes) of your character if you took time out of a seemingly busy and hectic schedule in order bash someone who was just casting a friendly net, looking for ideas.

Additionally, you sent me a PM, seemingly to warn me off raising my hackles against "notable" members. I call this intimidation. It doesn't impress me, nor does it frighten me; I'm already successful enough to bother worrying about such milksop aggression. If your passive-aggressive message was intentionally worded to scare me off while sticking to forum rules, I move that you carefully review your wording Miss ESL, as I am fully capable of reading between the lines.

You even tried to deconstruct a little joke I made in my introduction, for no apparent reason, in a thread that was completely null and void of any opinions. You can leave us "dreamers" to our vivid imaginations, this thread would be better without such flagrant negativity and character-bashing anyway.

What I will leave you with is this: what goes around comes around.

Badly done, no matter how notable you are. Badly done.

 

This thread was taken of course just a little.
I'm not looking for venture capital. I'm looking to become one.
As someone that has watched their money grow since I bought my first stock at 18. I'm looking to meet like minded individuals that I can talk to and grow positive business relationships. Through this process I see a group of people pooling their money very probable.
Of course this pool of capital would be monitored and distributed legally through lawyers and financial institutions.
Just a thought.

 

This is only a discussion.

 

You and I both know that I never mentioned the word "notable" in my *private* PM to you. What I attempted to do was to offer you some unsolicited advice.
You are not someone that I will bother to contact again. Have a nice day and let's give this thread back to the OP.

 

And I quote myself -

when you referenced yourself and your other "associates". And your patronage is neither required nor desired. My services and time are reserved for those with a much better business manner and who don't storm into threads casting doubt and ridicule about the place like so much manure flung from a farmers hay wagon.

Indeed, let's give this back to the OP.

OP, good luck in your endeavour! I hope it works out and you aren't overwhelmed by the vitriolic attentions of such naysayers in the future.

 

My business manner such as it is has been an evolution borne out of necessity from having to deal with pompous know it alls. (no need to take that personally)
As to casting doubt, that is the nature of debate which is what you sometimes get on threads. My difference of opinions and the style in which I choose to highlight it, is my own and if you don't find it to your liking then so be it.

The OP has an idea, nothing more. No real plan, no real goal, no concrete just powder and a bucket of water. Idealism is not something I fully comprehend as I feel more comfortable with cold hard logic and fact.
It appears that you are a kind hearted person who took offense that I was somehow being mean to a fellow idealist. Otherwise I cannot for the life of me understand where your outrage stems from.
Anyway *try* to relax, it's just a thread. If you cannot then I suggest Valium.

 

Failing that, he could just try extracting his head from up his own arse....

 

I've witnessed this sort of thing many times before. This fellow joined up a week ago, wants to make a name for himself and be noticed. So he has come onto this thread with both guns blazing. He is masquerading as a champion who is defending the OP who is supposedly being victimized. Unfortunately he has made a few grammatical errors in his posts, and has not advertised himself well at all.

This would also explain the contradictions vis a vis his PM's to me and his posts here. His PM's make him come across as well mannered and articulate. His public posts however make him appear quite the opposite. I suppose there is a bit of a showman in him.