You are a professional investor or an entrepreneur who has sold a business. You are looking for businesses to participate in. In doing so, you do not have the need to manage the business on a daily basis. You want to be involved at a distance and if necessary support the management with your knowledge, network and network. See here an overview of all parties looking for an investor.
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At Brookz you will find hundreds of businesses that are currently actively seeking an investor. If you want to participate as an investor in a business, then you need to be especially active. You can invest in a business through our platform in two ways:
The first possibility is that you respond to a business that is looking for a business partner in the form of a co-entrepreneur / informal investor / investor. You can do this by creating a 'Respond once account'. Then you can directly get in touch with the seller. You can also take out an account for six months to a year. This allows you to respond unlimitedly to all businesses looking for an investor that you want to know more about.
The second possibility is that you create an (anonymous) buyer profile. This will bring you to the attention of both active and latent entrepreneurs looking for an investor and they can also contact you.
There are many hundreds of businesses you can invest in . To ensure that you get started in a somewhat structured way, it is wise to answer a few questions for yourself first. What industries are you interested in? How much money do you want to invest? How much knowledge and expertise are you taking with you? And do you want to invest on your own or rather with other investors? On the basis of these criteria you will arrive at a personal investment profile that already gives a sharper picture of which propositions may be of interest to you.
A well-known saying is, "You have to kiss many frogs to meet the prince. And so it is with finding interesting investment propositions. First, make sure that your investment profile is known to as many relevant people as possible: accountants, bankers, notaries and tax advisers. Attend meetings where entrepreneurs present themselves. Search for participations on Brookz and post your own buyer profile indicating which businesses you are interested in. Investing is just hard work, the pearls are really not handed to you on a silver platter.
Experienced investors always say that investing is about three things: management, management and management. It turns out time and again that the success of a business is determined by the quality of its management. At a time when markets and technology are changing rapidly, management, in this case the entrepreneur, is usually decisive for the success of the business. Better to have a good entrepreneur in a difficult market than a bad entrepreneur in a rapidly growing market. The man is always more important than the plan.
Valuation is an art, not an exact science. With existing businesses, regular valuation methods (discounted cash flow, multiples) can be used to arrive at a starting point for negotiations. With start-ups, it will more often be gut feeling and valuation based on experience. An important issue to consider is: what is the exit strategy? After all, a share in a business whose owner does not want to sell is of no use to you. Or a share in a business that can survive, but nobody wants to buy.
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