Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Motocycles Reality TV Show

Interested, Quang?

SEEKING PRIVATE ACCREDITED INVESTORS FOR HARDCORE CHOPPERS LAS VEGAS AND REALITY TV SHOW.

We are seeking private investors for Hardcore Choppers Las Vegas motorcycle (choppers) dealership and TV show. Lee Stamper, TV talent from Orange County Choppers "OCC" and Southern Choppers is envolved as a partner and will manage the design and building of custom corporate theme motorcycles (choppers)for Hardcore Choppers Las Vegas. We are seeking $750,000.00 for start-up and operating capital through private accredited investors investing $25,000 to $750,000. The investors will be paid back their investment plus 15% interest in three (3) years. After three (3) years and the investors have been completely paid their investment plus interest, the company will have the option to purchase the investors percentage ownership.

The dealership will be located in Las Vegas and will have an income foundation by being the exclusive dealer for Big Bear Choppers ww.bigbearchoppers.com in the Las Vegas market. Big Bear Choppers is the 2nd largest manufacture of production custom choppers, in the United States. Big Bear Choppers has fifteen (15) different models of choppers to choose from and every model can be purchased as a completed motorcycle or as a kit that needs to be painted, powder coated, chromed and assembled. With the ability to take a kit and add custom parts, accesories and a custom paint theme will alllow Hardcore Choppers Las Vegas to sell every motrcycle completely unique, like a true custom chopper.

Big Bear Choppers kits will also be used on our corporate theme motorcycles. Hardcore Choppers Las Vegas will have a inside sales force, made-up of "phone pros" to market and sell corporate theme motorcycles to every company in the world. This concept of building corporate theme motorcycles is being done by Orange County Choppers, The TV show American Choppers, but they are only building 15-20 a year and they do not have a sales force selling corporate theme motorcycles. Medium to large size companies will pay $50,000 to $150,000 for a corporate theme motorcycle.

Hardcore Choppers Las Vegas partner, Lee Stamper, has a very large followig as a motorcyle chopper TV personality. He has been on Southern Choppers for four seasons, American Choppers for two seasons, is presently filming a show for True TV and is in negotiation with MTV for a reality show to build a MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE motorcycle that will be auctioned for charity. Hardcore Choppers will film its Grand Opening in March of 2011 for future footage for a TV show and we will seek funding for a reality TV show to work with corporations and building their corporate theme motorcycle.

For additonal infomation and documents, contact Troy Tillery on facebook or email me @ stroytillery@yahoo.com. My cell. # is (972) 891-2692

Lee and I are looking for motorcycle enthusiast that want to be apart of this very exciting OPPORTUNITY to build the biggest, baddest Big Bear Chopper dealership in the world. We will be witten-up in magazines, be on TV, go to motorcycle conventions all over the world and create an extemely vialble business while doing what we LOVE. Be apart of our family

Monday, July 27, 2009

Tech Startup

Share with the VC the core components (not completeley) but do not ask for a NDA.

Hi Tan,

I have a technology start up I am seeking series A funding for. What is the best way to seek funding while protecting our business model?

Best,

Brandon M. Young
Wimza.com

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Does operational experience help a VC?

Does operational experience help a VC?

The folks at PEHUBWire have done some research into the backgrounds of the 100 most successful VCs in the US, as defined by Forbes' Midas list.  See the link above for the detail, but the headline is that of the top 100, 54 had no operational experience, 25 had low level operational experience (John Doerr and Mike Morritz are in this group) and 21 had been C-level execs.

Their conclusion:

What does this all mean? Basically that a venture capitalist's resume is not necessarily an indicator of his or her future success. Plenty of operators and ex-operators have done well, and plenty of each have done poorly. It's easy — and arguably intuitive — to say that one is better than the other, but that doesn't make it true.

I think the reason that that VCs come from a wide range of backgrounds is that the skill set to be successful is very broad, broader than can be found in either operational or non-operational roles.  So all comers into VC have a lot to learn to be successful.  Ronald Cohen, perhaps the father of UK venture capital put it his way in his recent book The Second Bounce:

In private equity you have to be financially trained and to have an understanding of management, but you also have to have a strategic brain while being sensitive to tactical and people issues.

For me the main thing to think about when evaluating whether you want to work with a VC is whether you would like to see her on the opposite side of your board table every month for the next five years – and to establish that the two big questions are personality/cultural fit and whether you share the same vision and values.  (I wish these last were my own words, but in fact I borrowed them from a post Fred Wilson wrote a month or two back about building long term relationships.)



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Made Men: Why Venture Capitalists Sponsor Other VCs

DT: Let's touch base with Marc Andreeseen? Can we get an introduction via Reid Hoffman?

Made Men: Why Venture Capitalists Sponsor Other VCs

The big news out this week in the venture capital market is the launch of Andreessen Horowitz, a new $300 million venture capital fund co-founded by Marc Andreeseen, a tech visionary who founded Netscape Communications, the startup that triggered the Internet tsunami.

Raising $300 million for a first time fund is an incredible achievement in today's depressed capital-starved economy. How did Andreessen and his long-time business partner and co-investor Ben Horowitz pull it off? Well, tops on the list is the stellar reputation and track record of this pair. Andreessen has been at the forefront of the three major technology trends of the last 20 years: The Web, cloud computing and social networking.

After Andreessen launched Netscape, he and Horowitz founded tech service provider Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard bought in 2007 for $1.6 billion. Andreessen also co-founded Ning, a social networking company that is growing fast and generating revenue. "Marc understands technology on a deeper level than 99% of the public," says Todd Chaffee, partner with Institutional Venture Partners.

But one other big reason that the two were able to attract so much money, a key detail that I broke in my story for BusinessWeek, was the duo gained the support of three of Silicon Valley's most established and successful venture capital firms: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Accel Partners and Greylock Partners.

The lead partners of these three firms (Kleiner's John Doerr, Accel's Jim Breyer and Greylock's Aneel Bushri) sponsored Andreessen Horowitz, say several sources. Being sponsored is sort of like being a made man in the mob. You are tapped on the shoulder and invited into an elite club.

Concretely, this means that these sponsors made personal introductions to several of their limited partner investors to help Andreessen raise money. No doubt, that sponsorship gave the investors more comfort to invest their dwindling capital with a group of first-time VCs. "Those are great anchor tenants that will give them more credibility," says Roger Lee, partner with Battery Ventures.



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Friday, July 24, 2009

Way Of The VC (July 27th - Aug 1st)

Here we bring you some of our highlights this week. Plenty of exciting events this week.

StumbleUpon: Recommend this (http://tinyurl.com/nzk4cy)
Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18129773640)
Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/gingkocapital)

Investment Opportunities
Music Startup
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/popular-music-company.html

Sports Marketing
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/reply.html

Posts
Comparison of VC investments (by geography)
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/europe-falls-behind-silicon-valley-in.html

In VC Investments, Its Pre-Money and Options that Matters
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/blog-post.html

Too much money chasing too little deals
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/matrix-partners-waves-off-venture.html

Even Star VCs have difficulty raising funds
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/draper-fisher-rounds-up-196m-for-scaled.html

Mobile Tech
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/investors-watching-for-second-wave-of_17.html

Sports  Fan
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/will-sports-fanatics-ante-up-online.html

China IPO Market Hot!
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/us-ipo-market-may-be-dead-for-pe-but.html

Events
Call for Business Plan Pitches by Dragon Venture / Nano Frontier (July 27th)
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/fwd-my-colleague-meeting-with-you-on.html

INSEAD PE/VC Class (Dateline July 27th)
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/06/re-invitation-to-submit-project.html

Guest Lecture at Singapore Management University (Aug 14th)

Jobs
Career Advice for Engineers
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/sure-happy-to-help.html

VC/PE Jobs Newsletter
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/06/pre-mba-vc-newsletter-06232009.html

Interview:
Freemium beats advertising
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/gaming-business-models-freemium-beats.html

Videos:
Tan Yinglan Guest Lecture at SPRING-SMU Advanced Management Program
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/guest-lecture-at-smu-spring-amp.html

Deal Of the Week:
Sequoia-backed Zappos exits (trade sale to Amazon)
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/zappos-not-exactly-another-dot-com.html

Exit of the Week:
Caryle-backed China Pacific
http://www.wayofthevc.com/2009/07/carlyle-backed-china-pacific-confirms_5129.html

Quote of the week: Create a leaderful organisation.

Nominate an entrepreneur or social changemaker for the Asia Pacific
Future 100 (http://www.fyse.org/index.php?p=1_6_Asia-Pacific-
Future-100).

Good Day,
Yinglan
Way Of The VC

Tip us off if there's any event or startup we should know about. Or if
you're interested in sponsorship (lianpheng@WayOfTheVC.com)

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Bulgarian Green Investment Fund (BGIF).

Dear Yinglan,

My name is Milen Polimenov, Managing Director at Company for Capital Management (CCM) and Bulgarian Green Investment Fund (BGIF).

CCM is investment-consulting company that develops project in the field of renewable energy source (RES), EU Structural funds and corporate finance. BGIF is newly registered closed Fund, focused on investments in photovoltaic projects.
Currently, BGIF is starting capital increase of 15.5 million EUR through initial private placement. Time frame for capital raising is May – September, 2009.
The raised funds will be invested in development and construction of photovoltaic projects in Bulgaria. The period of Fund's existence is three years as at the end of the third year all of the assets will be sold and the Fund will be closed. The prognostic average return of investment on annual basis is 45.69%. Management Company of BGIF is Company for Capital Management.

The investment strategy of BGIF includes two main directions:
• Purchasing appropriate agricultural land, performing land designation, ensuring of the necessary documents and permissions for construction of photovoltaic power plants and sale of ready for realization projects;
• Construction of operating photovoltaic power plants and their further sale. As to this moment, three appropriate projects with total capacity of 52 MW are selected.
Main objectives of the Fund:
• Increase in market value of its assets
• Realization of current profitability through sale of ready projects (land with performed land designation and all necessary documents and permissions);
• Realization of profitability through sale of built and operating photovoltaic power plants;
• Ensuring high return of investment of the shareholders' funds.

Why the Fund is going to invest in Bulgaria?

There is National strategy for increasing the share of energy produced from renewable energy sources. The period of feed-in tariffs is 25 years for power plant put into operation until 2015. For photovoltaic installations with capacity to 5 kWp – 420.8 EUR / MWh, and for photovoltaic installations with capacities above 5 kWp – 386 EUR / MWh. Energy distribution and transmission companies are obliged to join with priority all power plants that are producing electricity from renewable energy sources. Along with that, price of electricity for domestic and industrial clients is expected to increase.

If you are interested in investments in BGIF or you would like to participate in fundraising I can provide you more information - summary of BGIF, Memorandum of BGIF, legal information, business plans of the selected projects and financial models.

Regards,

Milen Polimenov
Managing Director
Bulgarian Green Investment Fund
Saborni 11 Blvd, office 3
Varna 9000, Bulgaria
personal e-mail: polimenov@yahoo.com
Office e-mail: office@bgif.eu
mobile: 00 359 888 814 606
office: 00 359 52 91 90 45, 00 359 52 91 90 46
web:
http://www.bgif .


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