You can go public in States, without doing an IPO. Doing so may reduce your registration costs, it may reduce time it takes to trade your shares or it can improve odds of your becoming a public company. The reason to consider this option is that odds of raising money as a public company increase to an average of around 1-in-100. The improved odds relate to facts that (1) you are offering investors liquidity since they can sell their shares to public and (2) leverage, in that shares usually command a better price than that reflected by your public company's balance sheet.

Whenever you employ someone to help you, you must pay him or her. Someone raising money for your private company will want to gross between 25% and 30% of money they raise for you. They will expect their overhead costs paid in advance. While there are tens of thousands of these "Boiler Room" brokers, most of them operate outside of U.S. Law. Their successful funding percentage is usually low.

Most business owners and entrepreneurs think there is a Fairy Godmother who funds businesses, without regard to logic or reality. They spend years searching for this mythical figure. She doesn't exist. So instead, business-funding seekers settle for dealing with fools with money.

In general, businesses start on a shoestring. Successful businesses are oriented to making money from their conception. They grow by re-investment of their profits. If company's management is wise, company goes public to use their shares in acquiring cash producing assets. The insiders exit by having their public company acquired by industry giants. The only role of outside investors is to augment acquisitions with cash and company stock.

Seeking risk capital to start a business is an exercise in fools searching for other fools and paying professionals to make hunt an occasional success. If you are going to take this path, be prepared to pay toll and accept risks.

About Author: William Cate is an Equity Finance Consultant and Managing Director of Beowulf Investments [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/]. In his Venture Capital Profits, he offers a low cost way to raise money and grow your company into a multinational corporation.

The downside to fast nature of these types of loan is that interest rates charged on them are relatively high, this is because not only are they short-term and for large amounts, but risks to lenders of non-payment are higher than for other circumstances and this is taken into account when loan rates are calculated. Although rates are high when compared to other loans available on market, when you take into account short amount of time over which this interest is charged, and benefits that a bridging loan can bring, costs are reasonable.

Bridging loans are designed to provide you with equity from your current home in order to make your new purchase, before you are able to sell your own property. The loan is secured against home that you are selling in form of a mortgage or second mortgage, and will allow you in general to release around 65% of property's value. With these funds you are then in a position to complete purchase of new property, and once your old property sells you can clear bridging loan. If you are considering such a loan, you should be confident of a sale, and that you will be able to clear debt within six months, as high interest rates are something that you do not want to be paying long-term.

Bridging loans are available to people that have found it more difficult to get mortgages, such as those with an adverse credit rating. This enables these people to build a track record before applying for traditional mortgage. Bridging loans can take from 48 hours at shortest to around ten days if circumstances are more complex.

Despite costs, bridging loans are very popular, after all if you have spent a lot of time searching for perfect property you will not want to miss out on it because of a relatively short delay in sale of your current property. It is in these cases where bridging loans can prove invaluable, enabling you to secure sale of home that you want, and concentrate on sale of your property at a later date.

Bridging loans can be provided for:

Residential property

Commercial property

Land

New build

Renovations or refurbishment

Speculative properties

Conversions

Overseas property

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John Mussi is the founder of Direct Online Loans who help UK homeowners find the best available online loans via the http://www.directonlineloans.co.uk website.