Raising money

A method of raising money to finance projects whereby the money is loaned on the security of the profitability of the project itself and not on the other assets of the company. 

There are as many types of taxes as there are ways to raise money. Each state has different regulations and they change frequently. To keep up with these, reference 22 should be consulted. A brief explanation of a number of different types of taxes follows. The first six are the most common within the United States. 

Attempted Missile Purchase, Chicago —During 1985, a terrorist group (El Ruken) linked to Libya used violence and intimidation on the streets of Chicago to raise money to purchase weapons. Several members of the group were arrested in 1985 when they attempted to purchase a hand-held missile to shoot down an airplane at Chicago s O Hare Airport. 

If your story has all these elements, there is one additional factor that will affect your ability to raise money and that is timing. Investors appetites for biotech stories are like the wind if it is blowing hard enough, any kite will fly as the wind dies down, only the very best kites will fly and occasionally, during a dead calm, no kites will fly. And, as with the wind, mere mortals cannot control these cycles, they can only wait for the wind to improve. 

A corollary of Kleiner s First Law is, "Raise money when you do not need it." If you wait until your need for cash is desperate, you can be sure the financial terms will be unattractive. The less you need the money, the more leverage you will have with investors. In fact, a general principle to keep in mind is that investors love to put their money where it is not needed for survival, but rather is needed to expand the upside potential of the business plan. 

After years of struggling to raise money for biotech companies, I have concluded that every private deal must have a lead investor. The "lead" is the individual (and his firm) whose commitment persuades other investors to participate. Some combination of two qualities designate the lead investor (1) recognized expertise and success in the field which makes the deal credible and (2) sufficient financial commitment to the deal to get it done without most of the other investors. 

Martino s examples should not to be taken to indicate that government scientists are to be mistrusted. There is no more justification for that than wholesale rejection of the results reported by industry scientists because of their funding or dismissing environmental organization scientists because of the pressures their organizations face in raising money. In all cases, skepticism, one of the hallmarks of science, is appropriate. 

The American Natural Resources Co. had difficulty raising money for the mammoth project which would have produced 125 million cubic feet per day of pipeline quality high-Btu gas. Officials of the company had said that normal debt financing isn t possible because lenders aren t willing to put up the money for what is still an untried process in the United States. Yet outside financing is needed because the partners in the project can only afford to put up 25% of the cost of the plant themselves."... 

This is an important way of raising money, but a new share issue dilutes the existing share ownership, and may be unpopular with existing shareholders. It is normal, therefore, to offer the new issue first to existing owners. 

We should revise the grant system so that people do not spend such enormous amounts of time raising money. 

A. (lamcgic, James Watt (New York Doubleday, Page Co., 1905). While Carnegie made 10,000 available he insisted that an attempt be made to raise money from small donations from around the world. To this end an elaborate structure of heads of memo-... 

To help further involve the public in atomic energy issues, Einstein and a small group of other leading researchers formed the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists to raise money for public information campaigns. Pauling was happy to join when asked, especially because... 

This does not mean that no hospital will ever receive a request for material in Braille. The NLS can point hospital staff to Braille transcribers and producers in their area. Like other ventures suggested in this chapter, a hospital or clinic planning in advance for this need probably should attempt to raise money from corporations to defray costs. 

Walker went to Oxford and was in St. Catherine s College, which was in a state of transition in 1960. It had a dynamic head, a historian, Alan Bullock, who wrote famous books. He raised money to convert the St. Catherine s Society into a college. Bullock had been in a grammar school in Northern England and he knew that there were northern grammar school boys who were an untapped resource. 

Experience (EXPR) helps you with fundraising. If your candidate has lots of experience, he or she has more contacts and connections for raising money. Since experience comes with age, it counts against your health, although stamina counts for more health points. 

It takes time away from campaigning, but you have to raise money once in a while. Each fundraising point (experience times three plus appeal) is worth 200,000. 

FUNDRAIS—raises money for your carnpai based on fundraising ability. Takes a day, gains no votes, costs... 

Some people think that the state lottery is a bad way to raise money for parks. 

Sponsoring a five-mile run can be a fun way for your club or student organization to raise money for local charities. 

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