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Escrow - The Insurance for Angels By William Cate

Anyone who invests in any speculative venture that lacks a
business plan will lose his money. After carefully reading the
company’s business plan, anyone who doesn’t demand structural
changes in the offer will probably lose all of his money. One of
the essential structural changes in the business plan should be
that the investor’s money is escrowed until the company raises
the needed funds.

One Investor To The Next

Many startup company promoters live from one investor to the
next. In essence the first investor pays the costs of finding
the second investor and so on. At no time is it possible to
implement the company’s business plan because the company will
never have the money to fund it. Let’s assume that the business
plan requires $2 million to fund. The promoter can only find two
investors a year to risk money in the venture. Without the
escrow clause, the promoter can live off the $200,000/year
employed finding the needed two investors for the following
year. In 10 years, the promoter has raised the two million
dollars and may have $10,000 in the bank for the project. Of
course, the promoter has lived well on the investors’ money for
the decade, but the investors have nothing for their money.
Escrowing your risk capital ensures that the promoter isn’t
living off of it. Also, it tends to encourage the promoter to
find the needed investors quickly, since he or she can’t access
the money without raising all the needed funds.

A Simple Escrow Agreement

This type of escrow agreement is simple. Your money and that of
other investors can’t be released until the Escrow Account has
the specified funding required by the company’s business plan.
The Escrow Agreement has a fixed date upon which the Escrow will
end. It’s usually a year or two after the Escrow account is
setup. On that date, you and any other investors will get your
principle refunded in full if the account hasn’t reached its
funding goal.

Total Loss Protection

There is a second escrow agreement that will protect you against
a total loss of your risk capital should the company’s business
plan start to falter. The basic claim in any well-written
business plan is that the company will do this and something
positive will result. Then, the company will do the next thing
and something positive will result. There should be at least
five of these phased events outlined in a good business plan.

A wise investment group uses an Escrow Agreement to tie their
funding of the company to the projected positive results in the
company’s business plan. The business plan states that it will
take X dollars to achieve the results projected in Phase 1 of
the business plan. Once the money is raised, the escrow agent
releases to the company the funds required to achieve Phase 1.
Assuming Phase 1 results are as expected, the Escrow Agent
releases the money for Phase 2 and so on until the money is
expended and the Startup Company becomes operational. If the
promoter fails to achieve any phase, the investors can either
terminate the funding agreement or decide to go forward. This
escrow formula gives the investors insurance against a potential
total loss of their risk capital.

Choose Your Escrow Agent Carefully

Who should be your Escrow Agent? Usually licensed attorneys and
Certified Public Accountants are your most cost-effective
solutions. Be certain that the Escrow Agent has Errors &
Omission Insurance. It protects you against an Escrow Agent
mistake. Banks also usually offer escrow services, but at rates
that are often prohibitive.

If you give your money away without insurance, don’t expect to
get any of it returned to you.

Wealth. Does that sound like a foreign word to you? If you’re saddled with loads of consumer debt the way so many Americans are, it is probably a very unfamiliar word. Commercial and consumer debts are the greatest barriers to wealth. And when you’re suffocated by thousands of dollars of debt, it may seem impossible to get out.

There’s good news! It’s not impossible to eliminate your debt and move toward wealth. Most people and small businesses simply don’t have a system for paying off their debt, and as a result they perpetuate bad habits and remain stuck in it. By using the proper debt management system, you can get out of debt quicker than you probably imagined with minimal change to your existing lifestyle.

To top it off, there is a system you can use that will allow you to simultaneously create and feed the Wealth Cycle, a cycle of wealth millionaires use to consistently and exponentially build their wealth. In other words, you can simultaneously become wealthy and repay your debt.

Skeptical? You bet. But, you’ll be surprised at how easy this is.

So what’s the best way to abolish consumer debt? Many financial advisors will tell you to scrimp, save and cut back on absolutely everything that makes life fun. They’ll tell you to create a very tight budget and then pay off your debt before you can even think about making investments of any type.

Sounds a lot like a diet, one that will cause you to starve yourself and your children, depriving them of wealth.

So what does work?

To tackle consumer debt, Loral’s five-step debt strategy includes the following steps (explained in considerable detail in her book, The Millionaire Maker):

1. Create a debt elimination box
2. Calculate a factoring number
3. Make a priority payoff box
4. Use a “jump start allocation”
5. Make your debt payments

By using this system, your debt payments start to build as you pay of your creditors, all of whom have been listed in order of priority. Your capacity to pay off your debt accelerates quicker and it does require you to shave down unnecessary expenses, but not cut out everything you love. In short, it’s realistic - and mighty effective. You simply have to commit to it.

But wait, there’s more to it!

Earlier I mentioned that you can pay off your debt and at the same time actively build your wealth. Remember that Wealth Cycle mentioned earlier? This is where it comes in.

The Wealth Cycle used by millionaires consists of 12 steps:

1. Gap Analysis
2. Financial Baseline
3. Freedom Day
4. Debt Management
5. Entities
6. Cash Machine
7. Wealth Account
8. Forecasting
9. Assets
10. Leadership
11. Teamwork
12. Conditioning

It’s okay if you don’t know what each step means right now. The main thing to understand is that the key to success in using the Wealth Cycle is knowing which steps to take, and in what order.

Everyone’s financial situation will require its own order of sequencing. A wealth mentor can help you determine what’s right for you. For some people, the first step is to develop the proper legal entities for their business and investments so as to maximize tax strategies. For others it may mean first reallocating assets so you can bring in increased monthly income that enables you to start investing. This will in turn bring in passive income which will allow you to pay off your debt quicker.

Here’s an example of when entity structuring might be used first:

Let’s say you have a graphic design business but it’s not incorporated. This means your debt includes a lot of expenses - cell phone, office supplies, postage, etc - that you paid for out of your personal account. If you make your design business an entity, let’s say a “Subchapter S Corporation”, then the portion of your debt that includes those items can now be transferred over as business expenses. Now you can write off that portion of your debt against your income, giving you
more money at the end of the year!

The interesting thing about the Wealth Cycle is, as stated above, that you only focus on debt management after you develop a Cash Machine, the proper Entities, and engage in
forecasting.

Building wealth from a position of great debt takes courage, discipline, and positive energy. I realize this may seem a difficult scenario from which to create wealth, but my hundreds of successful clients prove that getting out of debt and building wealth is very doable. What it takes is a commitment to gaining awareness of your psychology, your finances, and a willingness to let go of old habits that no longer serve you.

Loral Langemeier is the author of The Millionaire Maker. For more information on uncommon wealth buidling strategies visit http://www.liveoutloud.com.

There are plenty of people who are in love with their bank books. In life, there will always be extremists.

None so extreme as the ‘Net Worth Nympho’s’, who can check their bank account or investment balances 24/7 via their cell phone, computer, PDA, or absolute worse case scenario ‘telephone banking’!

Technology has permitted the former check book fanatic, to now live, eat, and breathe their finances in millisecond, real time, ESPN style coverage. You may have met this type of person; you might even see them every morning when you are brushing your teeth.

So when does obsessing over ones assets cross the line, between a little excessive compulsive, and truly becoming a behavior that deviates from what society finds acceptable?

Well, first off who cares what society thinks?

What we are talking about here is addiction, plain and simple. Just like a nymphomaniac is addicted to sex, many, many people have become addicted to money.

You would be surprised how many people are out there. The X-Korn guitarist admitted being addicted to money, Millard Fuller the founder of Habitat for Humanity, rapper Chuck D, and even the recent eBay scammer Charles Stergois, sentenced to six years in prison, admitted he was indeed addicted to money.

There is a very clear difference between success and wealth.

Although they often go hand in hand, I think many people get their wires crossed, and allow reality to slip away.

The main stream media certainly hasn’t helped, and advertising today would challenge almost anyone’s psyche to believe we should all be driving Mercedes’ Benz.

Most people can tell the difference between right and wrong, but often in one’s pursuit of success they can start to focus on the wrong things.

You may need help if:

1. Your obsession with money is affecting your work, family life or relationships.

2. You have lost your ability to concentrate, as your thoughts always veer back to your account balances, real estate portfolio or stock account.

3. You spend too much time or money online in search of your financial fix.

4. You are going into too much debt in pursuit of increasing your net worth.

5. Someone close to you tells you there is a problem.

6. You are lying or denying, to your loved ones or yourself, to cover up your financial activities.

If this is you, or someone you know, please seek out expert assistance. In the USA, we would highly recommend visiting a professional like Heiko Ganzer of Money Addicitions of America (www.heiko.com)or someone equally as qualified. In Canada, the Center for Addiction & Mental Health’s website (www.camh.net) is a great start to find help. The internet may be part of the problem, but it also may become the greatest resource to find healing.

So, if it becomes an investment statement, bank account, or real estate portfolio that makes you feel successful, then that is absolutely fantastic. Keep up the great work, and enjoy your wealth to the fullest.

Just don’t forget to focus on the other areas of your life that have been with you through thick and thin.

Consider this… “You can’t take it with you when you’re GONE!”

by Lee Raito, CFP, FMA
Co-Author of Business Sexcess

Business and financial expert Lee Raito is a Certified Financial Planner and Financial Management Advisor. Lee has teamed up with Internet marketing expert Sam Heyer to provide you with information that will take your business success to a place it has definetly never been before. Their controversial book, Business Sexcess, is the much talked about book that will transform how you look at business. For a free Chapter please visit http://www.BusinessSexcess.com/free

Entrepreneurs are motivated by a variety of things - a passion for the implementation of their ideas, improving the world we live in, and of course financial reward. The last one is especially of importance as it is the attitude the entrepreneur, especially the young entrepreneur, takes towards financial reward that may determine his or her ultimate state of wealth.

We can all get a bit cocky from time to time, especially when we see ourselves blowing
up and starting make the big times after our businesses start flying. All sorts of
thoughts are going through our heads including the thought of “I’m going to strike it
rich.” However, often times some of us haven’t even seen our businesses get off the
ground and we can already be seen thinking along these lines. This calls for an
extremely dangerous mindset when it comes to our future wealth.

All of a sudden we find ourselves “spending as if.” What do I mean by that? We find
ourselves spending as if we already struck it rich, as if we just got acquired by
Microsoft, or as if we just became the next Myspace. Whereas, we should be investing
as much capital as we can into our ventures, we start to waste money on things that
would be downright detrimental to the business. We start thinking along the lines of
being able to pay off our frivolous purchases after our business blows up.

By spending now and failing to save or invest, we are already setting ourselves up for
destroying any future possibility of real wealth. Of course, this is not to say that all
entrepreneurs start following this line of thought. Entrepreneurs are one of the most
determined, unwavering, and focused individuals I know. This is just to say that it’s
important to keep focused on the end-goal and not get delusional along the way.

There are different economic cycles and there are certain investments that do well in a specific economic cycle. The most commonly known business cycle are: recovery, expansion, slowdown and recession. There might be more or different categories that economists use but this will cover the general economic cycle. We will discuss what stocks are good to invest on in a specific economic cycle. While you have to calculate the fair value of a common stock to profit from your investment, it is good to have a head start by analyzing different economic cycles.

Economic Recovery occurs when the gross domestic product (GDP) of an economy has reached a bottom and it is starting to move up. Normally, producers will build up inventory in the expectation of a recovery. Since most economies are driven by consumer demand, this is where the bulk of economic growth comes from. Therefore, companies that do well in a recovery mode is consumer product companies such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate Palmolive, Pepsi and retailers such as Home Depot, Best Buy and the like.

Economic expansion occurs when GDP has started to grow robustly. At this time, companies seeing a recovery will invest more and more capital into long-term assets such as machinery, computers and other capital goods. An ideal stock to invest in this situation is semiconductor companies such as Applied Materials, KLA Tencor or heavy industrial producers such as Du Pont, Caterpillar and 3 M.

Economic Slowdown. Once consumers run out of steam, economic growth will slow. This is characterized with excess inventory in certain retailers and other consumer goods companies. In economic slowdown, the central bank generally lowers interest rate which bodes well for financial companies. Therefore, a good stock to invest at this point is banks such as Citicorp, Bank of America or investment banking such as Goldman Sach, Lehman Brothers and so on.

Recession. This is the dreaded part of an economic cycle. Recession is defined as two or more quarters of a decrease in GDP output. With weaker demand and higher unemployment, consumer will curtail discretionary spending such as buying a house or a car. Instead, they focus on their money on a more important thing such as foods and drugs. Therefore, in a recession, pharma and generic drug makers do well. So does food companies such as Kraft, Sara Lee and the like.

We have just covered the most basic investing know-how for different types of economic cycles. It should be used as a starting point rather than a definitive guide. Determining the fair value of a common stock is still the most important thing to do to profit from any investment. After all, buying a highly overvalued drug stock during recession time may not give you a good investment return.

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The stock markets are at all time highs and just like the last time around when the market was at its previous high every one thinks that nothing can go wrong and there is just one way where the market can go which is UP.
Nothing could be farther from the truth and this will be clear from the way the market behaves in the next few months. Here are a few tips that would hopefully save you from losing a lot of cash in the current frenzy.

Time and again investors have burnt their fingers in the markets and here are some tips to you so that you do not end up burning your fingers in this market.

The number one tip at this point would be to sell if you have stocks and not to buy them if you have cash. The golden principle in the markets is “Buy when everyone else sells and sell when everyone else buys”. Simple enough right? Not really. Why? Because of peer pressure pure and simple. When everyone else around you seems to be having a ball at the markets you would feel like a fool if you didn’t participate now.

OK so you can’t resist buying at this time then at least do yourself a favor and stay away from unknown Penny Stock and hot tips that your barber gave you. True that the stock has tripled in the last fifteen days but that was before people like your barber started buying the stock. Chances are that the Promoter of the company have started buying into the stock and have spread rumors like acquisition or a big export order to fool investors and sell out to them at a later date.

Another tip that would serve useful is to value a stock based on its future growth and not its past performance. For instance many investors say that I will not buy stocks of X company because it has doubled in the last year. Well it may have doubled in the last year but that should not be the thing you should be telling yourself. Rather you should ask yourself why has this doubled in the last year and can it do so again? There should be a solid answer to your question like the launch of a new product or reduction in the prices of raw material. And indeed if the answer is in the positive then by all means go ahead and buy that stock regardless of what has happened in the last year.

Another tip would be to remember what you are buying. Quite simply investors often forget that when buying a stock they are simply buying ownership in the companies. Most of you would know that nothing spectacular would happen in the company that you work for, in a month, they are not going to double their revenues and certainly not double your salary every month. Then why expect anything different from the companies that you are investing in. Why expect the prices to double in a month or two. Give time to your investments; don’t reduce it to a gamble. Only when you invest in fundamentally sound companies and then give the investments sufficient time to grow will you see some healthy returns on your investments. Ideally a minimum horizon of one year is a good time.

Hope these tips will prove helpful and you will make a lot more in the stock markets than you have already been making. Happy Investing!

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The author is MBA Finance and is part of the Mint India team. More about Mint is given below:

The Indian stock markets provide an excellent opportunity to diligent investors who are willing to spend time and effort on the stocks that they buy. Money is there to be made by people who are willing to spend time understanding the business model, risks faced and other nuances about the company that they are buying.

Increasingly the investor is becoming more sophisticated and has stopped looking for hot tips and stories about stocks, which can double overnight.

Mint is aimed at people who understand that stock markets are not a gamble but reward investors who work hard understanding the companies that they are buying and then give time to their investments to grow and generate handsome returns.

Mint’s mission is to help such people learn more about the stocks available in the markets, more about macro and micro economic concepts that impact the markets and more about the industry in general to enable the investors to make an informed and profitable decision.

Quicken provides powerful investment record-keeping tools for individual investors. Unfortunately, once you step beyond investments like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, the mechanics can get a little tricky. Here are some tips for handling common investments in Quicken.

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