Entrepreneurs can also raise capital from investors outside of their countries!Did you know that if you are an entrepreneur looking for investments, you can also find investors who invest in other countries other than their own? That’s right. Despite the global financial crisis, many investors invest in countries where they do not have their offices based in. Many developing countries spanning from Eastern Europe all the way to India have many different investors investing in new startup companies in those regions.One good example is in the new countries of the Caucasus, formerly part of the Soviet Union. Many investors are looking to invest in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. For example, the financial crisis makes many Western consumers pinch pennies, so there are some possibly good investment opportunities in those countries because of everything being of lower cost by Western standards. Many developed nations which have become some of the word’s biggest financial centers were also in the same situation as many of the former Soviet republics. Look at Singapore today. Did you know that in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the small city state of Singapore was in a poor economic state, but you would not believe it today. How did Singapore become so wealthy? Simple. Investors began to see opportunity in Singapore and began to invest. Why was Singapore so attractive to foreign investors? Well, first of all, Singapore has a strategic location that can give access to the entire East Indies and grew to be a center for trading of such goods as spices and textiles from Indonesia, Malaysia, China, and other countries in the region. The same thing happened with Europe after World War II. Even after Germany lay in ruins, many people still saw value in the quality of German durable goods. Investors from America came to Germany and invested in German companies which manufactured all kinds of durable goods ranging from the famous sport shoes under the brands of Adidas and Puma to the former American GMC arm for Europe, Opel. Germany grew up out of the ashes of poverty from foreign investors investing in promising companies in Germany. It does not stop there. Investors are investing more and more in foreign countries because of new conditions in their own countries that are counter-productive to good business. For example, Israeli company, 3G Solar received an investment from two American investment firms, the Quercus Trust and 21 Ventures. Other examples of businesses in foreign countries receiving funding from American or European investors include China based RedBaby, which raised funding from American Investor NEA. The list goes on and the list of investors from the United States and Europe investing in foreign countries is likely to grow in the near future, so if you are an entrepreneur in a foreign country, you have a good chance of raising capital from such investors. Click here to buy the VCgate 5,100 + Venture Capital & Angel Investors Database with over 1900 investors that are willing to invest outside of there countries Now! Now the question is how to find these investors. Well, this can take some work. First you need a good business plan, which you probably already have. What next? Well, you need to look for investors who will invest in the country where you are starting up your company. This can take a lot of time and patients. One method is contacting investors cold by calling or emailing their offices and ask to speak with an investor directly. You can go online and find websites which have a list of investors which you can contact and ask directly, but this is very tedious work. This is your preliminary search and you don’t need to get frustrated if you don’t find one who invests in ventures like yours right away. Just keep at it and eventually you will find one. It can be done. There are a lot of investors out there. Doing such a search can also be supplemented by networking with friends and acquaintances. You may be new at entrepreneurialism, but you might have friends, coworkers, or other business partners or former clients who know people in the investment community. This is another great way to find investors for your overseas business. Networking is a wonderful way to find investors, because you get into contact with investors through people you know and know the investors also. When an investor knows you through one of their acquaintances, it can be much easier to win investments, especially from angel or other private investors, but there are examples who did not know the entrepreneurs but do invest in them, because they saw a good opportunity. Click here to buy the VCgate 5,100 + Venture Capital & Angel Investors Database with over 1900 investors that are willing to invest outside of there countries Now! Don’t have time to do a preliminary search or networking and want to find investors fast? Well, there is another way you can find investors for your company rather quickly. You guessed it! The VCgate Venture Capital Database can be just the right thing for you. This directory is filled with over 5,100 investors, including secret investors who do not advertise their services. Besides that, there are plenty of investors for everyone on VCgate. All the best, Amir, VCgate Venture Capital & Angel Investors Database www.vcgate.com PS. In several weeks we will send you a link to a new website that will help you pitch your company to investors. |
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