Angel Investors: Who They Are & When Are They Appropriate

Written by Dave Lavinsky


Angel investors are individuals who invest in emerging business ventures. Angels typically provide both capital and know-how to companies who are in either their start-up or expansion phases. To reflectrepparttar increased risk of investing in such firms, angels seek a higher rate of return versus traditional public stock investments.

Angel investors fulfillrepparttar 143453 financing need that exists between capital provided by friends and family and capital provided by venture capitalists. Individual angel investors often write checks from $25,000 to $100,000. Recently, angel investing has become more organized, and angel groups often invest from $250,000 to $500,000 at a time to deserving ventures.

Angel investors often have similar financing criteria as venture capitalists. They want to see proprietary intellectual property, a large market size, management team members with expertise and experience and a current valuation that allows for a good return on investment.

Planning to ship a consignment –Shipping things 101

Written by Mannat khan


As human beings are advancing day by dayrepparttar world is squeezing or shrinking. It is not just easy forrepparttar 143414 humans to commute from one part ofrepparttar 143415 world to another but also to sendrepparttar 143416 goods or packages from place to place. Shipping thus perhaps stands as one ofrepparttar 143417 best way to shift one’s cargo. Shipping is meant for all sorts of goods preferablyrepparttar 143418 heavy, immovable ones, which cannot be easily moved like machines, household goods, vehicles etc. These goods are safely packed in large picked up from one’s place through lifts and safely packed in containers. A container is a huge box of metal. There are a variety of sizes of containers or boxes. Usually they vary fromrepparttar 143419 kind of package to be transported. The shipping company one selects and provides its own containers and also insurance forrepparttar 143420 goods packed by them i.e. onlyrepparttar 143421 professionally packed goods. The customer should not go byrepparttar 143422 little increment in his bill due to insurance for insurance saves from many expected and unexpected pitfalls. Thus it is recommendable to get your shipment insured.

There are various shipping companies like UPPS, FED EX etc. The efficiency of a company firstly lies in its speedy delivery of goods. The lesser number of days a company takes reducesrepparttar 143423 chances of one’s packages to get naturally deteriorated, damaged etc. However time limit is notrepparttar 143424 only parameter to adjudicate a company’s competency. There are certain other factors too viz.repparttar 143425 company should be a registered one, preferably having a good name earned in this field. Thenrepparttar 143426 kind of packingrepparttar 143427 company does ofrepparttar 143428 goods like cleaning ofrepparttar 143429 tools before packing, many companies also provide some other aids ofrepparttar 143430 sort- plastic covering to wooden furniture before keeping it in a container etc. What is also to be noted isrepparttar 143431 amount of insurancerepparttar 143432 company provides for professionally packed goods,repparttar 143433 safe delivery of goods which includesrepparttar 143434 technique of loading and unloadingrepparttar 143435 goods andrepparttar 143436 place whererepparttar 143437 goods will be delivered (i.e. at one’s residence or at some centralized place) and finallyrepparttar 143438 costs involved.

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