Angel Investors: Who They Are & When Are They AppropriateWritten 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 reflect increased risk of investing in such firms, angels seek a higher rate of return versus traditional public stock investments.Angel investors fulfill 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 101Written by Mannat khan
As human beings are advancing day by day world is squeezing or shrinking. It is not just easy for humans to commute from one part of world to another but also to send goods or packages from place to place. Shipping thus perhaps stands as one of best way to shift one’s cargo. Shipping is meant for all sorts of goods preferably 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 from kind of package to be transported. The shipping company one selects and provides its own containers and also insurance for goods packed by them i.e. only professionally packed goods. The customer should not go by 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 reduces chances of one’s packages to get naturally deteriorated, damaged etc. However time limit is not only parameter to adjudicate a company’s competency. There are certain other factors too viz. company should be a registered one, preferably having a good name earned in this field. Then kind of packing company does of goods like cleaning of tools before packing, many companies also provide some other aids of sort- plastic covering to wooden furniture before keeping it in a container etc. What is also to be noted is amount of insurance company provides for professionally packed goods, safe delivery of goods which includes technique of loading and unloading goods and place where goods will be delivered (i.e. at one’s residence or at some centralized place) and finally costs involved.
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