Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2007.07.05 14:50:00 -
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I don't use in game corporate shares as a financial vehicle. I don't like this mind you, I would very much like to have some sort of hard and fast medium of contract to use. I just don't like shares as this vehicle the way shares are currently implemented.
So, manually is possible but it increases administrative overhead. The trick to this method is to have the value of each bond significant enough that it reduces the number of investors. I guess it could also be represented as a limited partnership as well.
Ideally, I would suggest, for the new player ipo investor is to start small. Not minimal, just small. One of the most common new person mistake is to look at the stars and say, "I want all of them." Pick a closer celestial body and only one. (I.e. go with a 500mil venture, perhaps a 1 billion venture.)
Of course how far you should initially reach should be tempered with a few considerations:
- Do you have any references that may offer a favorable testimonial about you? (If you do check with them first! Get their agreement and willingness to vouch for you or don't mention them at all. Period)
- Willingness to work with 3rd party non-competing outsiders. Some divulgence of your plan, to select parties, can actually help your chances by gaining yourself some credibility supporters.
- Attention to detail, attention to detail, and some more attention to detail if you can fit it in. A detail ipo proposal is not an indicator of trustworthiness however it does demonstrate your competence and awareness of the ipo market and/or the market you intend to operate within.
- Seek, entice, and plead for Critical Review. Don't just ask for it, love it. And the best way for that is to get some outsider(s) to look it over. (refer back to "working with others")
Let me add: This is not a how-to succeed document. This is advice on measures that tend to work. You can go maverick, I tend to, but keep in mind that mavericks often suddenly die painful deaths all alone unmourned. Independent Rogues are a romantic fantasy. Reality tends to dislike, and punish, them... allot.
The Eve-Online forums may not have invented whining, but they sure have perfected it.
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