Bitcoins, Broker-Dealers, Investment Bankers and New Business Models: The Race is On

Posted on June 5, 2014 by admin

Bitcoin and the topic of “virtual currency” continues to gain traction, as evidenced by the increasing number of technology-savvy corporate executives focused on the world of transactions. Within the world of broker-dealers and investment bankers, bitcoins are increasingly intriguing when considering the global ramifications of a new tool that will be part of the toolset for trading securities and financial instruments; and certainly a tool for which start-up companies seeking capital can build a business plan around.

Ben Horowitz, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz explains his outlook here:

More Than Half of VC-Backed Start-ups Valued at $1Bil+ are B2B

Posted on June 2, 2014June 2, 2014 by admin

BrokerDealer.com blog update is courtesy of this a.m.’s WSJ CIO Journal and reporter Rachel King: For companies who aspire to the same success as the biggest and best, selecting the right investment banker and broker-dealer can mean the difference between greatness and simply a great idea (that never made it..) The brokerdealer.com database can help entrepreneurs source and locate bankers, licensed investment brokers and qualified investors across the globe.

Twenty of 35 VC-backed startups valued at $1 billion or more are business-to-business companies, including Dropbox Inc., Palantir Technologies Inc. and Cloudera Inc. That’s a higher percentage of B2B startups than during the dot-com bubble years of 1999 and 2000. For some of these startups, the high valuations can help inspire confidence with prospective corporate customers. For others, the overall rise in valuations is reminiscent of previous instances of collective — and misplaced — euphoria. “I’m not worried,” Karim Faris, general partner at Google Ventures, tells CIO Journal. “There’s a lot more meat to the bone this time around than there was in 1999.” The WSJ CIO Journal full list of $1B+ startups is in this article.)

BrokerDealer.com: Spain Broker-Dealers and Bankers : Realty Offers Real Deals for Investors

Posted on May 30, 2014 by admin

BrokerDealer.com blog thanks NYT DealBook for their coverage of Spain broker-dealer and banker activity. BrokerDealer.com database of Spain broker-dealers, bankers and institutional investors seeking opportunities is a good place to start for those seeking funding and financing.

“As one of the most moribund housing markets in Europe, Spain has become a magnet for global bargain hunters. Real estate prices are down as much as 50 percent from their peak during a housing bubble, and investors from Asia to the United States and Britain are flocking to Spain to try to catch the uptick.

“It’s crazy the number of investors coming in,” said Fernando Acuña, co-founder of Aura, a start-up real estate advisory firm in Spain, as he toggled between multiple screens dissecting data in the residential real estate market and showing the uptick in Google searches for “comprar piso” — “buy an apartment” — in his bustling office on Madrid’s fashionable Almirante Street.

Small firms like Mr. Acuña’s, midsize investment banks in Spain and global banks in London are buzzing with investors looking for different ways to play the real estate market, by buying apartments or office buildings, scooping up loans from Sareb or the banks themselves, creating pools of capital to buy real estate assets or buying servicing platforms, which give the private equity firms that own them the ability to manage their assets as well as critical market intelligence…”

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Is Your Startup Really Ready to Go Public? Uh Oh or IPO…Expert Insight

Posted on May 30, 2014 by admin

Brokerdealer.com blog provides this excerpt courtesy of article contributed to Entrepreneur Magazine by Martin Zwilling, CEO Startup Professionals

With the recent apparent successes of several startups in taking their company public (initial public offering) and raising billions of dollars, I’m hearing a groundswell of enthusiasm from new entrepreneurs to follow in their footsteps to fund their companies and become billionaires overnight.

“If Facebook, Yelp and Twitter can do it, then why not me?”

Current IPO activity feedback seems to support their excitement. In the first quarter of 2014, the U.S. IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 billion. That is more than double the number of IPOs in the first quarter of 2013. With 103 new filings during the quarter, the rest of 2014 is on track to keep up this record pace.

On the other side of the coin, new entrepreneurs seem to forget that 64 startups is a miniscule percentage of the companies seeking funding during the first quarter. According to the Small Business Administration, about 600,000 new businesses are started in the U.S. each year, and a large percentage are always looking for money.

What should an entrepreneur look for in his own startup as a reality check on his own aspirations to be a serious IPO candidate? Here is my collection of the key considerations, based on my own experience, scanning the literature and talking to experts in this domain: Continue reading →

BrokerDealer.com Launches Business Intelligence Portal For Bankers, Investors and Entrepreneurs Raising Capital

Posted on May 28, 2014October 22, 2019 by admin

Immediate News Release

BrokerDealer.com Launches Broker-Dealer Business Intelligence Portal for Global Bankers,

Qualified Investors and Entrepreneurs Raising Capital

New York, NY—May 28–Broker Dealer LLC, a provider of financial industry corporate intelligence and qualified investor databases, announced today the launch of a new, broker dealer web-based portal that incorporates 100,000 broker dealer, investment banker and securities dealer profiles as well as upwards of 20,000 qualified investors extending across 35 major countries, including capital formation brokers and deal investors based in North America, EU, Eastern Europe, China, Pacific Rim, the Middle East and Africa.

Apart from detailed lead generation and decision-maker metadata, the company’s platform incorporates a range of social media applications, including a “deal room” forum that enable capital-seeking business enterprises to share their business plans with professional deal-sourcing bankers and private funding sources that include qualified angel investors, hedge fund managers, private equity and venture capital firms and family offices seeking investment opportunities. The firm’s investor database is available for free and is accessible via http://BrokerDealer.com.

“Brokerdealer.com could be the right domain for this new player in the business intelligence space when considering the evolution of the JOBS Act in the U.S., the global embracement of crowd-funding in advance of traditional investment bank capital-raising techniques and the depth of global contact information available within the brokerdealer.com database. The social networking function within its subscriber-based platform is compelling, and it’s advertising-free.”

Brokerdealer.com was designed to help connect companies seeking broker dealers, funding, underwriting, or lead manager assistance for debt and equity offerings. The platform was created out of the need to give entrepreneurs, investors and data providers the ability to connect with one another. The broker dealer databases found on brokerdealer.com includes information such as broker dealer’s name, address, phone, URL/emails, and most important, a description of what the broker-dealer actually performs. If a company is seeking to raise capital for a real estate project the user will be able to filter the broker dealer databases – on a global scale – and reach out.

Brokerdealer.com anticipates adding 45 additional securities dealer and broker directories, giving network members of brokerdealer.com upwards of 75 of the world’s most popular broker dealer lists.

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