Someone who solicits your business has, in my opinion, already eliminated himself as a professional investor.
The most likely buyer is a professional investor who purchases rental properties for a living.
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Very few people have the background, training, discipline, time or interest in being or becoming a professional investor.
For instance, at Rincon Venture Partners, my Partner Jim Andelman compliments my operational history with 15-years as a professional investor.
Their long term results might be quite impressive, because they had the foresight and discipline to retain and stay with a professional investor and his concept.
The goals and fears associated a family member associates with investing in your business are a far cry from the goals and fears of a professional investor.
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Only on rare occasions, like when a hedge fund or a professional investor such as Carl Icahn threatens this dominance, does this dynamic come under peril.
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Fear not, says Scott Nystrom, a former staffer at the Congressional Budget Office who became a professional investor and is now editor of the Gold Stock Strategist newsletter.
For a professional investor's perspective, consider the following "radar" graph, courtesy of The Venture Alliance, which coaches fledgling companies on attracting funding and also provides the candidates for these quizzes.
There are massive advantages, like sharing profits with friends and family, as well as the strategic credibility than can be gained from funding from someone you know, rather than from a professional investor.
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The goal of this monthly column is to give readers some insights into the mind of the professional investor by highlighting some of the nuts-and-bolts issues I consider as a portfolio manager of municipal bonds at TIAA-CREF.
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If you think your business will require multiple rounds of funding, you may want to consider including a person or firm in your initial round of funding that is a professional investor and has the resources to lead or participate in follow-on rounds.
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Therefore, you might suppose that to be a professional tech investor--one who bets huge in up markets and coolly bails out at the start of down markets--well, such a superman must be more than an optimist and futurist.
But in the past 36 months, at least one professional real estate investor a month has called me about an audit.
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With the individual investor missing, professional traders, hedge funds and institutional investors appear to have powered the market upward.
Bill Barnhart is an editor for the YCharts Pro Investor Service which includes professional stock charts, stock ratings and portfolio strategies.
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Dee Gill is an editor for the YCharts Pro Investor Service which includes professional stock charts, stock ratings, stock screener and portfolio strategies.
Dee Gill is an editor for the YCharts Pro Investor Service which includes professional stock charts, stock ratings, portfolio strategies and a smart stock screener.
That type of track record made the understated, low-key Neff a favorite manager of many other professional fund managers--an "investor's investor, " if you will.
No investor, whether retail or professional, wants to be that guy who got duped the tenth time around when the financial markets succumb to the next piece of negative news.
After leaving PayPal in 2000, Hoffman founded professional networking site LinkedIn, while moonlighting as an investor in some 80 startups.
Mutual funds, themselves a financial innovation from 1924 ( see page 124), give the small investor what large investors always could afford: professional management and diversification.
If you are an amateur investor (someone who is not a hardworking, full time, proven professional), how is that working out for you so far?
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