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The long, dark shadow of the Mexican Peso crisis cast itself over the emerging market universe in 1995 like some sinister ghoul, frightening away investors and sending many of the dedicated managers scurrying into the distant, unfamiliar corners of the investment world: Africa, the Middle East and Russia.
For some, however, the crisis in Mexico ...
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With regard to the amazing deal flow supply and demand associated with India, we’d like to invite you to the Private Equity Conclave 2012 to be held in multiple locations actross the coutry in the upcoming spring.
The event will be devoted to the topic of Private Equity (PE) in India and will take ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
According to data collected by the World Bank, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand are the best countries to do business in 2012.
The Doing Business 2012 report ranks 183 economies according to the ease of doing business, an index combining 11 areas including starting a business, getting credit, paying taxes, protecting investors, enforcing contracts ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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This is a copy of an article released in November 2011.
Merar.com, an online platform connecting entrepreneurs and investors, may need additional equity to finance the planned geographic expansion and to pay for the launch of new services, according to Managing Director Petko Karamotchev.
A start-up launched in October 2010 with the seed funding ...
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One of Merar's long-term objectives is to keep it's members and blog readers updated about new interesting and useful readings, relevant both to the entrepreneurs and the investment community. This for example is a report from IHS Global Insight, produced provided to Merar several days ago by the National Venture Capital Association of ...
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When we saw the video on TechCrunch, we immediately decided to share it with you. In this footage you will see five VCs from the Silicon Valley gathered to talk about the state of investing and what skills and qualities make a successful venture capitalist.
As Robert Hof from Forbes quoted last week “It’s ...