Thinking Like An Accredited Investor When Capital-Raising
Amaris Dordar, Esq.® For Your Business' Legal Needs
What is an investor business plan?
Gone are the days when a business strategy or plan written on the back of the napkin would get you the investment you seek. Creating a solid investor business plan is essential to your business’ future. Without it, no accredited investor is going to give you the funding you seek.
An investor business plan is a comprehensive document outlining a company's strategic vision, operational details, and financial forecasts. It's designed specifically to attract potential accredited investors or lenders by highlighting the business's potential for growth, profitability, and success.
An investor business plan includes an in-depth market analysis, a clear business model, revenue projections, risk assessments, and a strategic roadmap to achieve the company's objectives. The investor business plan’s purpose is to persuade accredited investors to fund the business by showcasing its viability, potential returns, and the entrepreneur's ability to execute the proposed venture. Here is our 9-Step Guide to thinking like an accredited investor when capital raising for your business.
1. Understand the Accredited Investor's Perspective: Recognize that accredited investors evaluate opportunities based on potential return on investment, risk assessment, and growth prospects. Your investor business plan must reflect a clear understanding of these criteria.
2. Present a Solid Business Plan: Highlight your business model's viability, market opportunity, competitive advantage, and clear financial projections. A comprehensive investor business plan demonstrates your strategic direction and operational readiness.
3. Showcase a Strong Management Team: Accredited investors invest in people as much as they do in ideas. Show that your team has the experience, skills, and dedication to execute the investor business plan successfully.
4. Emphasize Market Position and Scalability: Your investor business plan should address a well-defined market with potential for significant growth. Accredited investors look for businesses that can scale efficiently and gain a substantial market share.
5. Demonstrate Robust Financial Health & 5-Year Financial Pro-Forma: Have clear, organized financial statements and projections that comply with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Your investor business plan should underline a trajectory towards profitability and sustainability.
6. Highlight Operational Efficiency and Growth Strategy: Show how your investor business plan aims to improve operations, reduce costs, and drive revenue growth. Accredited investors are interested in specific strategies that lead to value creation.
7. Articulate a Clear Exit Strategy: In your investor business plan, make it clear how accredited investors can exit their investment with a return. Whether it's an IPO, acquisition, or another route, having a clear exit strategy is crucial.
8. Prepare for Rigorous Due Diligence: Expect in-depth examination of your business's financials, operations, and strategic investor business plan. Be transparent and prepared with all necessary documentation and answers to potential questions.
9. Communicate Your Value Proposition: Clearly articulate in your investor business plan what sets your business apart, how you solve a significant problem or meet a need, and why your solution is superior to others. Your value proposition should resonate with the accredited investor's goals and interests.
By adopting the mindset of an accredited investor and meticulously preparing along these lines, entrepreneurs can significantly enhance their chances of successfully raising capital. Each step requires careful thought and planning, reflecting both the strategic vision of the business and the practical considerations of investment analysis.
With decades of accumulated experience in a variety of industries, Amaris Dordar, Esq.® has created a proven business planning system that saves you time, money and exceeds investors’ expectations. We accurately prove long-term returns that are realistic and achievable. We can help you convince accredited investors on their ROI by setting financial benchmarks that you can be accountable for.
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Amaris Dordar, Esq.® is committed to providing personalized attention to each client and tailoring legal strategies to meet individual needs. If you're looking for a lawyer who will advocate for your rights and fight for your best interests, you can count on Amaris Dordar, Esq.®
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For the legal help your business needs, contact:
Amaris Dordar, Esq.®
@yale alumna 🐶
Business email: contact@amarisdordaresq.la
Business phone: (310) 405-9837
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8 Reasons Social Media Influencers and Content Creators Should Register Their IP
Today, more than ever before, products of the mind are humans most valuable intangible assets.
Social media influencers and content creators work hard to build a reputation of expertise for specific topics, brands and industries. In fact, the influencer marketing industry is projected to be worth $24 billion by the end of 2024 and currently accounts for roughly 15 percent of the total global ad spend.[1] In the course of creating content and a brand – social media influencers create different forms of content that can qualify as protectable intellectual property (IP).
Some people confuse patents, trademarks and copyrights, but they protect different intangible assets and serve different purposes.
What is IP (or intellectual property)?
Intellectual property is basically a term used to describe creations of the human mind such as inventions like the personal computer, literary and artistic works, designs in fashion, and trade names for business, just to name a few. Intellectual property law is concerned with fostering human innovation and creativity, while also encouraging competition and sustaining a healthy economy. Essentially, the value of IP comes from the right the IP owner has to exclude competitors from using his or her IP in commerce.
IP spans the full spectrum of human creativity from literature, the visual arts, music, drama, and movies to computer programs, fashion and business identity, just to name a few.
Trademark and domain names are important for businesses‘ brand, while copyrights and trade secrets protect valuable innovations and creative endeavors of businesses and individuals.
A patent is a property right granted by the government, namely the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (or USPTO), which is the federal agency responsible for patent examination.
Computer technology and software companies often have patents, but patents are also major revenue drivers for industries like digital communication, medical technology and pharmaceuticals.
Technology is driving innovation with a total number of 589,155 patent application filed with the USPTO just last year.
Preserving and leveraging your intellectual property, such as by licensing, can be critical to your success so it is important to know how to distinguish these intangible assets and register each IP.
Below are eight reasons to register your intellectual property:
1. You can only sue for monetary damages if someone infringes on your registered copyright or trademarks
2. Official registration reduces the risk of others stealing your creative works and marks
3. Registered trademarks help make your brand more recognizable
4. Trademark registration also prevents others from using your name or logos in an attempt to mislead or steal your audience
5. Registering your intellectual property makes it easier to get infringing content taken down
6. You can trademark your domain names, logos, hashtags and online aliases.
7. You can secure copyright protection for videos, photos, written text, artwork and sound recordings.
8. You can also copyright images and visuals you create, as well as dance moves, slogans and phrases.
Registering intellectual property (IP) benefits influencers and content creators by establishing ownership of their creations, protecting against unauthorized use and enhancing their ability to enforce rights in legal disputes. This helps safeguard their brand, reputation and revenue streams in the growing influencer marketing industry.
While copyrights protect your creative content from being used without your permission, trademarks can prevent others from using your brand to mislead followers.
Both forms of IP provide you with a way to set yourself apart from others and profit from your content.
So how do you protect your digital content?
Get your IP registered today with Amaris Dordar, Esq.®
We are an executive-level team of diverse industry-specific consultants, Ivy-league educated and possessing institutional-caliber capabilities. We enable the best possible outcomes through value-based methodologies that succinctly capture the maximum value of your principals, intellectual property, business performance, markets and outlook.
Get your entrepreneurial dreams started today with Amaris Dordar, Esq.®, Founder and Managing Partner of Dordar LLP. I work with clients closely, one-on-one, and guide you step-by-step in developing your business and protecting your IP. I support businesses from inception to execution, ensuring legal protection for sustainable growth. We specialize in the field of corporate law and are committed to setting standards of excellence in the legal industry.
For the legal help your business’ need, contact:
Amaris Dordar, Esq.®
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Business email: contact@amarisdordaresq.la
Business phone: (310) 405-9837
[1] Dencheva, Valentina. “Global influencer marketing value 2016-2024.” Statista,www.statista.com/statistics/1092819/global-influencer-market-size/. Accessed 06 August 2024.