Starting your own business is never easy. The hardest thing is to come up with a completely new idea and find a market for it. As a follow-up to our business plan writing guidelines from last week, here are a few more steps we recommend you to take before starting the actual work on your ...
Beginner’s Guide to Writing a Business Plan and Impressing Investors (Part 2)
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A Big Thank You for the 3000 Facebook Fans!
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We have reached 3000 supporters on Facebook which is a big step for Merar. Your support is greatly appreciated and we wouldn’t be here right now, if it weren’t for you guys.
You have helped the expansion of our website, through the social media and have presented us with a number of opportunities ...
Beginner’s Guide to Writing a Business Plan and Impressing Investors (Part 1)
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Starting your own business is never easy. The hardest thing is to come up with a completely new idea and find a market for it. There are other instances of course, where an entrepreneur can take up an already existing idea and make it different or take it one step further. Either way, a business ...
Why to Split the Pie? Equity Investment Stages, Sources, Advantages and Disadvantages
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Naturally, entrepreneurs who have put their hearts, minds and souls into developing a business idea are reluctant to share their venture with others. However, equity investment might be the only way to materialize your business plans. Since owing 100% of nothing is a way less than having a smaller bit of a successfully running company ...
Ethiopia: Africa’s Lion Economy Averaging 10.6% GDP Growth per Year
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Interested in investing in Africa? While South Africa has been continuously attracting media and investment attention, the business community seems to be neglecting other promising investment destinations within the continent.
With the current article we’d like to highlight an African emerging market that is becoming one of the fastest growing world economies, Ethiopia.
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The Economic Impact of the 2012 Olympic Games
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As a host of this year’s Olympic Games London was the world’s hottest spot over the last month. Being in charge of such an important and massive event that brings together athletes, visitors, politicians and media from all parts of the world is definitely a prestigious role a city should be proud of ...
How to Effectively Present Your Business in Front of Investors?
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Despite being so enthusiastic about their business ideas, entrepreneurs often fail to win the attention of investors when they meet. The reason usually lies in the differences in terms of perspectives, information needs and benefits sought.
The entrepreneur-side often focuses on the “What” aspect of the idea, namely what is going to be produced or ...
Establishing Contact on Merar Easier than Ever
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Looking out for the best interest of its members Merar undergoes another change that simplifies the process of contact establishment on Merar.
So far, the party initiating the contact had to send a contact proposal to the other party, which had to be then accepted within seven days. Both parties were sharing the costs for ...
Merar Invites Its Members to the 2nd Offshore Wind Supply Chain Conference
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Discussing various ways to create a greater value to our members we at Merar decided to introduce the new practice of keeping you regularly updated on business-related events and initiatives that may help you meet investors and partners or find out more about the trends and best practices in your industry.
Despite being an online ...
With a Major Change Merar Undertakes Further Steps for the Improvement of the Project Quality and the Investment Talk
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Slightly more than a year after its formal launch Merar hits the best upgrade any investment network site would like to have. By making the contact establishment the core paid service on the network we are significantly improving its quality, reliability and trustfulness.
As from today (18 November 2011) Merar is changing its business model ...