How to find an investor

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Every entrepreneur, and even more so a startup, one way or another, at least once in his life, is faced with the question of how to find an investor for his project. There is no universal answer to this question, but there is a certain set of rules in order to correctly determine the investor.

Each person has the right to decide how and where to look for an investor; our task, however, will outline some of the most common ways to search.

Crowdfunding

Recently, an innovative form of investing in commercial and charitable ideas, which consists in the interaction between people, has become quite popular overseas. In this case, the role of investors is people who participate in crowdfunding. A large number of people, sending a certain amount feasible to them, are able to finance the project that interested them.

With the help of crowdfunding, a large number of new, unusual and charitable ideas were released that were not able to receive financing in another way, due to the fact that they were losing in terms of commerce.

Investment Portals

Investment portals — a portal on which it is possible to find an investor, or vice versa, the investor has a chance to find an idea that will interest him. These Internet resources can be compared with the heading “ads” for the selection of investors. This selection method is quite easy, you only need to register on the portal as an investor, or fill out a search application with your project. Data on the investor or project is entered into the database, on which, in the future, the investor-project is selected. For example, the B2Bingo website is an international social network for companies, their employees and individual entrepreneurs. On this Internet resource you can easily find an investor to implement your project.

Investment grants

Most often, applicants apply for a grant to search for investors. Using this method, the project is reviewed by the grantor and if the requirements indicated by him find a place in the project, then a financial investment is made in the work. That is, the grantor invests his funds in financing a specific project.

Individual investor or financial partner

Using this investor search method is rather time-consuming and does not differ in particular ease of execution. In this case, the selection of the investor takes place at special events, or through mutual friends. Most often, when using this method, the investor will be happy to invest in a developing project.

Thus, we gave examples of fairly simple, in our opinion, investor search methods. But we must remember that the use of one of the methods named by us does not give an absolute guarantee of a successful result. It will be better if you use several options at once.

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