Nice site

From the Bad Entrepreneur blog:

If you have even a passing interest in either financing your small business or investing in someone elses idea then I'd like to recommend you check out the InvestorsNetwork.co.za website.

It is a local site which basically serves as a meeting place for entrepreneurs. You can either pitch your small business or meet up with potential investors. The nice thing about them is that they have already recorded 185 registrations on their site - which I would take to mean that they have a bit of a following.

The services they reckon they offer:

* To assist in the funding of emerging ventures.
* To present pre-screened deals to capital providers.
* To educate entrepreneurs on the investor mentality.
* To provide a vigorous meeting forum for all business professionals.

Anyway - let me know what you think of their site and what they have to offer.

Anyone want R50m in venture capital?

Anyone want R50m in venture capital?

Yeah I thought that might get your attention. Had a pretty interesting week with two Venture Capital firms coming up to me - out of the blue - and asking if had any ideas where they can invest funds.

I get to chat to quite a few Venture Capital and Private Equity guys in my spare time and there seems to be a growing theme - "We've got a lot of money sitting on the sidelines and we just can't find anywhere to invest it in SA."

Both firms had problems trying to find places to invest their money - if they go with mass market advertising they get swamped by applications that simply takes too long to work through so they're trying to find smarter ways to find deals.

So I guess I'm throwing it out to the SA entrepreneurs blogosphere - any decent ideas out there for some sizeable investments where guys are open to venture capital or private equity deals?

If you've got some ideas feel free to drop me a 2 page motivation on marc@rival.co.za and we can take it from there....