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Mapping the Spanish ecosystem of positive impact start-ups
By: Paris Impact Investing
Tags: Socent, Impact Investing, Impinv

After mapping the French ecosystem of positive impact start-ups, we felt the need to compare how it’s doing in comparison to other European ecosystems and what it is we can learn from our neighbours. Since a few members of the Paris Impact Investing team had strong personal links to Spain, this is hopefully the first mapping of an European series!

Having a snapshot of a country’s impact ecosystem is not only useful to spot what works and what’s missing, it can also help entrepreneurs and investors who want to venture outside of their national borders.

For entrepreneurs, the scaling-up process often involves chasing bigger markets and launching abroad. For niche impact sectors like accessibility equipment for the disabled, selling in multiple countries can even be ineludible to get the economies of scales necessary to reach breakeven. Identifying talent, funding and support in target countries thanks to these mappings will hopefully contribute to a good international launch.

the scaling-up process often involves chasing bigger markets and launching abroad. For niche impact sectors like accessibility equipment for the disabled, selling in multiple countries can even be ineludible to get the economies of scales necessary to reach breakeven. Identifying talent, funding and support in target countries thanks to these mappings will hopefully contribute to a good international launch. For impact investors looking into solving pressing social issues, it is obvious that promising solutions they would want to invest in could be based in other countries. However, sourcing great startups abroad can be challenging when you don’t have a network of trustworthy prescribers such as universities, incubators or first round funders. We hope these mappings will help them understand where to look for the kind of international entrepreneurs they would want to support.

We would love to get your feedback to add or correct information on the mapping! Feel free to leave your comments directly on the Google Slide link below.

Special thanks for their great contributions to Javier Goizueta, founder of socialenterprise.es, Lara Viada, principal at Creas, José Luis Ruiz de Munain, founder and executive director at Foro Impacto, Mari Kameyama and François Gazel-Anthoine, respectively analyst and partner at Investir&+!

Mapping of the Spanish ecosystem of positive impact start-ups

Paris Impact Investing is a Paris based non-profit organisation that creates open-source knowledge to help social entrepreneurs and impact investors scale.
Show Me the Money: Diversify Your Investments
By: Tj Osterman - Mwmfund
Tags: Impact Investing, Diversification, Investing, Alternative Investments

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Show Me the Money: Diversify Your Investments

If you’re reading this in 2020, you’re probably well aware that diversity is a good thing and that’s the case when it comes to investing your money.

Remember that iconic moment in Jerry Maguire when he says show me the money? Well, we’re about to show you how exploring alternative investments beyond the stock market can help grow your financial return.

Take Risks, Be Smart:

Let’s be real. We can’t all be Warren Buffet but with 11% returns annually, the stock market can be a great way to build wealth over time. But if you happen to be one of the unlucky millions of people affected by the stock market crash in 2008, you already know that the stock market can be risky.

Those of us who have 401K plans, pensions, trust funds (Cher Horowitz we’re looking at you) or use apps like acorn to make small investments are more exposed than they realize to the whims of the stock market.

The good news is, you won’t have to become an Instagram influencer or YouTuber to make some extra cash, thanks to alternative investments like real estate, venture capital, commodities and private equity.

Stability is a Good Thing: Alternative Investments

If you payed attention in tenth grade physics you know that what goes up must go down and Newton’s Law typically applies to the stock market as well. Sometimes taking the risk is worth it, but sometimes it’s not.

Alternative investments can help you avoid the unpredictable nature of the stock market while providing potentially attractive returns. When the stock market unexpectedly takes a turn for the worse alternative investments are typically not affected.

The bottom line is, don’t put your eggs in one basket because like the stock market and investments in general, one fall and the egg container crashes, leaving you with a big financial mess to clean up.

Each person’s financial portfolio is different and requires its own unique approach. Creating a diverse investment plan which combines traditional stocks and alternative investments can help you benefit from growth in the stock market but also offer you stable returns when the stock mark isn’t in the best shape. We could all use a little more stability in the personal and financial areas of our lives. So now that your side hustle is up and running, your next challenge is figuring out how to spend all that money.

Click on link to find out more about MWMfund.com and what they are up to.
Moving Past Nonprofit vs. For-profit
By: Evan Steiner
Tags: Nonprofit, New Economy, Business, Impact Investing, Social Enterprise

Life is nuanced, subtle, and highly contextualized. Very little in this world is black and white. However, many aspects of society today are viewed through stark polarities. Good vs. bad, right vs. wrong, democrat vs. republican, socialism vs. capitalism… There is a huge amount of nuance in between each of these examples, but since it is harder to build the world in shades of grey, we simplify things into opposite buckets that are easier to comprehend and act upon. The tragedy is that the nuance and the subtlety is also the beauty. It is where we find our commonality, our shared values, and our humanity.

A prevalent and pernicious bifurcation is the split between nonprofit and for-profit. Generally speaking, the motive on the for-profit side is to maximize shareholder value, to make as much money as possible for the owners of a business or corporation. On the the non-profit side it is to do good, to make the world a better place, and to support communities and the environment in ways that are not provided for through market forces.

When we begin to inhabit the space between nonprofit and for-profit, we start to see that all organizations in the world, every single one, should focus on one thing: maximizing societal value. Providing the most amount of benefit for the largest number of people. Whether that means creating good jobs, helping people to eat healthy food, providing education, enabling access to capital, the choices are infinite. The question for an organization to ask is how are we providing value to society, what are we doing that is extracting value, and how can we maximize the former and minimize the latter. It doesn’t mean sacrificing profit. It doesn’t mean being overly idealistic, impractical, or never making tough decisions. It means understanding what impact an organization has on the world, good and bad, and consciously working to increase the positive and decrease the negative.

The lines have certainly started to blur in recent years. The focus of several movements — social enterprise, impact investing, social justice, benefit corporations, and environmental sustainability, to name a few — have in many ways worked on alleviating the schism between nonprofit and for-profit. Instead, they start to describe how to build our businesses, economic systems, and philanthropic organizations in the shade of grey between making money or doing good. Often this work is expressed as building “the new economy” or “the good economy.” However, from my perspective, they are promoting economic systems the ways they should have been in the first place, without the black and white separation of non-profit vs. for-profits.
Proof of Impact and Cordaid Announce Partnership aimed at tokenizing Health Outputs in Ethiopian Health Centers and Hospitals
By: Iulian Circo
Tags: Ethiopia, Africa, Impact Investing, Blockchain For Good, Press Release

Proof of Impact and Cordaid Announce Partnership aimed at tokenizing Health Outputs in Ethiopian Health Centers and Hospitals

Photo Credit: Cordaid

May 7, 2019

Cape Town, South Africa, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia —

Cape Town, South Africa, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Proof of Impact and Cordaid today announced a partnership, that aims to support the Oromia Regional Health Bureau by funding health outputs across health centres and t hospitals in Ethiopia.

Tokenized health outputs

In this partnership, Cordaid is facilitating health outputs, like infant immunizations, across health centres and hospitals in Ethiopia using a performance-based financing model supported by the Netherlands Embassy. Proof of Impact is providing technology to help validate and verify data that proves the successful delivery of health outputs. The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other stakeholders will be able to link the verified health data directly to funding. This secure process is called tokenization and enables a new and innovative performance-based financing model.

Impact Investing

Proof of Impact will also help develop innovative economic models and financial products that will allow private capital to flow towards impact delivery as part of a global impact capital marketplace.

This program and partnership are supported by the Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa and exemplifies their commitment towards innovation in impact implementation, using technology to create broad, transparent and more sustainable impact.

Iulian Circo, Proof of Impact Co-founder, says “This partnership is a milestone and a global premiere in performance-based financing models. We are applauding the leadership of Cordaid and The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in driving the application of exponential technology and innovative economic models in their quest for impact and sustainability.”

About Proof of Impact

Proof of Impact, a Tech Startup headquartered in Amsterdam, is creating a global impact marketplace where you can donate or invest directly into measurable impact outcomes. The marketplace allows impact sellers to deliver verifiable impact events at an individual level, and sell them directly to impact buyers. By connecting impact sellers with buyers, sellers can monetize their efforts and buyers can achieve individual impact attribution.

MEDIA CONTACT: Kevin Pettit

Related: Cordaid: Performance based financing program in Ethiopia expands to coffee growing highlands

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PassiveLogic Presents on Inclusion in HVAC Industry at Winter Innovation Summit
By: Mitch Kasyon
Tags: Smart Buildings, Plnews, Energy Efficiency, Impact Investing, Autonomous Building

Travis Hallstrom onstage at the Winter Innovation Summit

PassiveLogic has been chosen as a leading technology company to join the conversation at the Sorenson Impact Winter Innovation Summit on February 6, 2020. The focus of the event was to open conversations among impact investors about how to use capital to catalyze transformations in neglected and overlooked markets.

In addition to the firms, funds, and family offices in attendance, a select group of entrepreneurs were asked to present their impact investment opportunities. Among other issues, the entrepreneur presentations addressed the fact that “Less than 2% of the $1.1 billion venture capital raised in Utah in 2017 went to female-founded companies.” The Summit provided a platform for great ideas and firms to take the stage and invite investors to reverse this trend.

Ms. Hallstrom introduced PassiveLogic at this event and addressed the importance of democratizing technology to make it accessible to all. She concluded her presentation with this call to action: “This conference is about making an impact with capital. PassiveLogic is filling a vacuum in a market that is desperate for solutions. The opportunity here is real. I invite you to join us in revolutionizing the built environment, AND the largest climate and energy opportunity in the economy.”
Credit Risk Fund: A Moderate Risk Investment Fund
Tags: Investors, Invest, Investing, Investment, Education

Every investor invests in various types of funds, according to their risk profile. Some have a high appetite for risk, while other prefer a moderate risk. One such fund for such an investor is credit risk fund. Credit Risk funds are a category of debt funds that invest 65% of their portfolio in AA rated paper. They aim to generate high returns by taking high credit and investing in lower–rated papers. These low papers typically generate two to three percent more returns as compared to risk–free papers.

How does the Credit Risk Fund work?

These funds are ideal for those investors with a higher appetite for risk in the fixed income space should opt for it. They mainly generate income in two ways, first they earn interest income on the securities they hold and secondly, they invest in low rated securities. So, if the securities get upgraded then they have a chance to make a capital gain on those risks. A credit risk fund manager mainly invests in the debt instrument of AA rating (which is highly risky compared to AAA rating). They possibly look upon the potential upgrade on the ratings later in the future or assured returns due to strong fundamentals. Also, if the economy performs better, then there will be an improvement in the finances, which may lead to an upgrade in the bond rating.

Before selecting any credit risk fund, an investor must know that, he must choose a fund manager and fund houses with good experience in managing debt portfolios. Finally, investors should hold no more than 20% of their debt portfolio in such funds, since this category carries higher risk as compared to other debt funds. Apart from that, he should also look upon the fund house size, as most of these funds have high liquidity risk. So, if in case a bond with having a low rating in the portfolio faces a downgrade or default, then it may be difficult for the fund manager to exit the holding. Large asset-based funds act as a cushion against any kind of risk. They should also look out at the fund expense ratio and make sure it is not concentrated with a single sector or any single business group.

One of the biggest benefits of investing in the credit risk mutual fund is dividends are exempt from tax, but the scheme must pay a dividend distribution tax of 28.84%. An investor who invests in three years of investment is treated as short term capital gains and taxed as per your income tax slab. In case, if the investment is more than three years, then they are eligible for long term capital gains tax at 20% with the benefit of indexation.

Are you looking to invest? How about opening your account with Gulaq & start investing in Direct Mutual Funds? Get in touch.”

*Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks. Please read the scheme information and other related documents carefully before investing.

Source: https://www.gulaq.com/credit-risk-fund-a-moderate-risk-investment-fund/
THREE WAYS FOR INVESTORS TO WORK WITH STARTUP STUDIOS
Tags: Investors, VC, Enterprise Ai, Startup Studios, Innovation

Over the last two years, it has become clear that startup studios are the best way to create innovative companies. Since deal flow is like water to venture capitalists, we thought we’d outline a few ways to dip your toes into this fertile lake.

Let’s begin, however, with the reasons you might not have already invested. If you are a fund manager, you likely have a strict thesis to follow; studios aren’t included in that contract. Also, the cap tables of studios and studio companies cast a strange shadow. Last, you might not know any of us! That’s easy to remedy if you just wander on over to the GSSN website.

Now, every studio has a slightly different model, but the following three methods are likely to be used by a given studio. Studios are sometimes separated into operating companies (that actually run the studio) and a fund that owns the equity in the newly formed startups.

Direct Investment in the Studio

A big conversation in the studio crowd is how to obtain operating capital. Companies like Verdant can make a lot of hay with a million dollars or so. That operating capital can be traded for equity in the studio directly or as an LP in the studio fund. This vehicle entitles you to returns on everything the studio creates and is a superb way to establish a larger portfolio.

Invest in Post Studio Companies

The goal of startup studios is to create companies. After a period of nurturing the companies, they get spit out like college freshmen to make their own path in life. Mom and dad (here, the studios; we don’t employ founders quite that young) will spend the first six months looking to bolster their support network. That means finding investment. If you’ve developed a relationship with a studio, you’ll get an early look. At the moment, we won’t pontificate on the virtues of investing in post-studio companies, but it should be apparent.

This is the preferred model for many studios; one example is Wolves Not Sheep.

Build Your Own Ideas

Studios love to ideate. They attract creative, disruptive people who are motivated by big challenges. Many investors have ideas, but can’t commit time to operating a new venture. Try meeting with a studio that knows your market; there’s a high likelihood they may have technology chops to match your need and/or a willingness to build it.

As mentioned, studios are a diverse and creative bunch. The Big Dogs include Human Ventures, Pioneer Square Labs and prehype. But let me encourage you to reach out to several and make sure you have the proper fit. We at Verdant specialize in Enterprise AI — if that’s your liking. We hope to hear from you.
Charity — You Have the Power to Bring Happiness
By: Grant Trevithick
Tags: Business, Investor, Charity, Finance

The charity provides many benefits. It includes the obvious, stated benefit of Charity’s purpose, as well as personal benefits. A more common benefit may be fulfilling a belief in a cause. This may include helping someone physically, financially, or emotionally. There are also some other benefits, like enhanced stability.

“Giving to charity makes you an improved person”.

Beyond these credible benefits, charity has a mystical quality that is more than the sum of its parts. To illustrate, people regularly give charity in someone’s honour, and even more — they give charity to a cause so that someone they know should merit help in what they need.

A small amount of charity can save a person’s life who is about to expire, or it can sustain someone’s life for a certain period of time. This is why charity actually adds life to the giver.

Charity enables us to generously share life. God then extends our life so we can have the reward of giving more charity. The benefit of giving charity is more life, so we can give more charity!

Learn more about it by hitting the official website of Grant Trevithick’s Charity.
Cost Inflation Index — Detailed Explanation
Tags: Investors, Invest, Investing, Investment, Education

Prices of goods keep on increasing timely, thus resulting in the fall in the purchasing power of money. Let’s take an example: If 2 units of goods are bought today at a price of INR 100; tomorrow only 1 unit will be available for INR 100 due to increasing inflation. Talking about this, the Cost Inflation Index or CII is used for the calculation of the estimated increase in the prices of goods & assets yearly due to inflation.

What is the Need for the Calculation?

CII is calculated to match up the prices to the inflation rate. To simplify, an increase in the inflation rate over a certain time-period will lead to an increase in the prices.

Who Notifies the CII?

The Central Government specifies the CII by notifying in the official gazette.

Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com

How is CII used in Income Tax?

Long-term Capital Assets are calculated at cost price. Despite increased inflation, they exist at the cost price & cannot be re-valued. When these are sold out, the profit amount remains high due to the high price as compared to purchase price, thus, leading to a higher income-tax. Turning beneficial to tax-payers, CII benefit is applied to long-term capital assets; due to which purchase cost increases, thus, resulting in lesser profits & lesser taxes.

The Concept of Base Year in CII?

The base years are referred to as the first year of CII & have index value as INR 100. Index of other years is compared to base year just to see the increase in the percentage of inflation.

For any capital asset purchased before the base year of CII, tax-payers can take the purchase price as higher of the — Fair Market Value or actual cost as on 1st day of the base year. Also, the indexation benefit is applied to the purchase price so calculated.

Points to Think About

Here:

Index benefit is not allowed in case of debentures or bonds except sovereign gold bonds or indexation bonds issued by RBI.

Ignore the improvement cost incurred before — 1st April 2001.

If the property has received in the will, CII must be taken for the year wherein the property is received. NOTE: The actual purchase year of the property must be ignored.

“Are you looking to invest? How about opening your account with Gulaq & start investing in Direct Mutual Funds? Get in touch.”

Source: https://www.gulaq.com/cost-inflation-index-detailed-explanation/
Candlestick Pattern: The Technical Way To Pick A Stock
Tags: Invest, Stock Market, Investors, Investing, Stocks

Trading is one of the most exciting professions for decades. Millions of traders across the world trades various assets like shares, currency, metals, commodities & etc through the different stock exchange across the world. Trading isn’t the skills one is born with, but these skills can be learned and practised through proper study. The biggest risk in the stock market is identifying patterns. With the rise of algo and high frequency trading, traders today relies more on technical data and analysis in order to predict the movement of the market. Terms like price information, raw data and candlestick pattern form chart indicator. These terminologies help in providing the details about what will be the movement of the price at a given time. This is where Candlestick patterns come into the picture. They are used to predict the future direction of the price movement as well as flagging up trade signals.

Basically, Candlestick charts are a way of displaying information about an asset’s price movement. It’s a style used to describe high, low, opening and closing price movements of derivative security or currency for a specific period. This is the most preferred tool of analysis for most traders, as it provides all the required information in one glance. It has three basic features:

Body:

It represents open to close range.

Wick:

It indicates intraday high and low.

Colour:

The direction of market movement- a green body (indicates a price increase),

While a red (or color may change) body shows a price decrease.

There are mainly two types of Candlestick patterns:

Bullish Engulfing Pattern:

A bullish engulfing pattern occurs in the chart of a security when a large white candlestick fully engulfs the smaller black candlestick from the period before. The patterns appear at the bottom of a downward trend.

There are mainly six types of bullish candlesticks patterns:

Hammer Inverse Hammer Bullish engulfing Piercing lines Morning Star Three white soldiers Bearish Engulfing Pattern:

The bearish engulfing is a two-candlestick pattern that appears at the top of the trend, thus making it into a bearish pattern. It forms an uptrend and signals a point of resistance.

There are mainly six types of bearish candlestick patterns:

Hanging Man

Shooting Star

Bearish engulfing

Evening Star

Three black crows

Dark Cloud cover

If a candlestick pattern doesn’t indicate a change in market direction, then it is what is known as a continuation pattern. It helps a trader to identify a period of the rest in the market, when there is market indecision or neutral price movement. Here is the list of four continuation market patterns:

Doji

Spinning top

Falling three method

Rising three method

“Are you looking to invest? How about opening your account with Gulaq & start investing? Get in touch.”

Source: https://www.gulaq.com/candlestick-pattern-the-technical-way-to-pick-a-stock/
To productise is too easy as an advise from investors.
By: Patrick Bosteels
Tags: Startup, Investors, Stage Co, Productise

As a digital service company, my last company I ran in Belgium before going to Türkiye and start Stage-Co, I often had harsh discussions with our internal management team about creating a product of yet another solution we delivered to a customer. Sometimes we even spend more time and effort into a project to make it product-ready. To no avail. Products never came out leaving me very very disappointed. When I hear investors pushing startups towards a product I can relate to the difficulty it represents and to be honest, I always made good money with services and even sold some companies based on services only. When I listened to one of the podcasts of Enis Hulli, a partner in 500Istanbul, interviewing Foriba, I heard again the confirmation. There is nothing wrong with starting as a service. The same story for Insider, that also started as a service before making a product. Some advantages of starting as a service:

- Low setup cost

- Short time to market

- Lower risk

- You learn the real needs of customers

I hear you talking about the scalability of course. True, multiplying revenue with a minimal incremental cost is not possible but you don’t want to feed those who failed with a product at the start versus those who started as a service. Here again, the team is the important game changer.

This only confirms my frustration that I should have forced towards products in my latest company. Though I also realize today that the team and knowledge you need to productise is totally different and it was clear we did not have that team at that moment. Amin.



I have my moments I kind of like Country and Western. Geoge Jones had about 150 hits and had a very turbulent life. “Where Grass Won’t Grow” is kind of a sad song but illustrates nicely that seed on a rock cannot grow. A lesson many startups should realize before starting the product adventure without understanding and connecting with customers. Listen here.



Kolay gelsin,



Patrick Bosteels

patrick@stage-co.com
FoodTech Highlights: March 2021
By: Njf Capital
Tags: Foodtech, Investor, Nicole Junkermann, Njf Capital, Njf Holdings

I attended the Future FoodTech Summit this month and was delighted to hear from ambitious players across the industry. As an investor in plant-based egg replacement JUST Egg, it was exciting to hear about how the alternative protein industry is continuing to accelerate.

Here are some headlines from the FoodTech industry from the last month — March has been a particularly exciting time to be an investor in meat alternatives, both cellular and plant-based.

Global Alternative Protein Investment

This month, new data from the Good Food Institute has shown that global alternative protein investment tripled to US$3.1 billion in 2020. This is triple any investment seen in a single year in the industry’s history, and includes investments made in plant-based meats, egg, and dairy, cultivated meat and fermentation companies working on alternative proteins. This funding will facilitate further research and development, and enable more consumers to be able to access alternative protein products.

The Livekindly Collective

The Livekindly Collective, the parent company of many plant-based good brands, has closed its latest funding round at $335 million, by securing $103 billion of investment from TPG. The collective has plans to expand in both America and China. This is an extremely exciting development, and shows that investors are continually interested in plant-based food brands.

Meatable

Meatable, a Netherlands based FoodTech startup, is pioneering ways to make real meat without the need to harm the environment or animals and hope to come to market in 2025. They take cells from an unharmed cow or pig, and they then use it to replicate the natural process of fat and muscle growth, mixing together their muscle and fat cells in proportions that emulate traditional cuts of meat. The potential of cellular based meats has been recognised, and they have secured $47 million of funding from BSM.

Sanatech Seed

Sanatech Seed, a Japanese startup, have announced the sale of their new tomato seeds, the first genome edited tomato to be brought to market. This variety contains high levels of an amino acid believed to aid relaxation and help lower blood pressure, and is the first of several varieties of tomato it plants to develop with enhanced nutritional benefits.
BTC and ETH: good cop and bad cop
By: To The Mars
Tags: Investors, Investing, Investment, Tothemars, Cryptocurrency News

How was your weekend? Any interesting news? Great! Because we always have it! And today, the key players of the digital market are on the agenda: BTC and ETH. The first one continues to please us with its ups (hopefully with no downs), while the second one was an unpleasant surprise. All the details are in today’s digest.

For the first time since January 2018, bitcoin has consolidated above the $16,000 mark and continues to move towards the historical high of $20,000, which was recorded in 2017. Remarkably, the BTC rally strengthened after the announcement of the news that the PayPal payment system added cryptocurrency transactions to its services. From November 12 this year, PayPal account holders in the United States can use the service to store, buy and sell digital coins.

Due to the rapid bitcoin upswing, the number of transactions in the blockchain network reached a record level in a week. The next resistance is located around $17,200, and it is very likely that in the short term, BTC will stage a bullish breakout of this area.

Meanwhile, cryptocurrency exchanges and users of the Ethereum network faced problems due to an unannounced hard fork. Some platfrms were forced to suspend the withdrawal of ETH due to problems with the fintech provider Infra. However, Infra assured users that they were already working on their elimination.

Due to the hard fork, such exchanges as Binance, Bithumb, Upbit and Crypto.com, as well as many miners took a hit. The Ethereum team confirmed that, from a technical point of view, it was an unannounced hard fork, but many users did not support the developers’ decision to conduct an undisclosed update, blaming them for the lack of transparency in the ecosystem.
How To Avoid Land Grabbers (Omo-Onile) Issue
Tags: Investors, Rental Property, Land Grabbing, Middlechase, Real Estate

One of the major challenges most investors face in Nigeria is the issue of Land Grabbers popularly known as “Omo Onile” in the Southwest region of the country. Most of the fraudulent acts on properties are traced to them.

Basically, Omo Oniles are the legal and lawful owners of a given piece of land or the indigenous landowners in a given community. They are traditionally descendants of the native owners of the land. They sell and usually feed on proceeds from land sales. Unfortunately for them, the inherited land has a limit and once they finish selling them, they have nothing left to sell.

So, in order not to run out of money, many become being scammers and engage in common practices such as selling the same piece of land to various buyers and infringing on land acquired legitimately by others.

In other cases, they make it difficult for land buyers to take ownership of their property after purchase by charging unlawful fees and threatening or attacking construction artisans at building sites. These illegal exercises frequently pose a difficulty to city development, order and safety.

To worsen the case, these unscrupulous set of people extort money from buyers who are developing their properties. They demand money for everything you do on your property acquired from them. They ask for a ridiculous amount of money from the start of your housing construction to the finish point. Every building material transported to the site comes with a levy. All these are enough grounds to discourage anyone from investing in real estate.

There are a whole lot of land cases in this category presently in court and Unfortunately, the “omo-oniles” are nowhere to be found and there are no means for these buyers to get their money back.

To escape the troubles of land disputes with land grabbers, purchase your property from an accredited real estate company. A lot of real estate companies are out there and few of them are legit. In order not to go out of the frying pan into the fire, do your due diligence. Consult a professional lawyer and a registered surveyor to assist you on your way to acquiring a property.

Middlechase Property Limited is one of the leading rental developers in Africa and our estates are legally authorized with a perfect title (Governor’s consent). The buyers don’t have to deal with Omoniles to pay any sort of fees to them and all documentations are done in their favour.

To know more about Middlechase Property Limited, click on the link below: Middlechase Property Limited or call 08186577504.
Designing a portfolio is like creating a football team.
Tags: Lagos, Investors, Nigerian Writing, Investing, Investment

You’ll need different roles — strikers, midfielders, defenders & a goalie playing together to win.

In the “investment team” you instead pick stocks, bonds, commodities & cash. And most importantly, you also choose a “formation” to play.

Lets focus on stocks today

Defense

-Foundational stocks

They are like all rounders and are good in many fronts the have good value, high to moderate growth and many pay Dividends too

The can easily make up when one members of the team is not play so well(Sergio Ramos for real madrid😊) .

Midfield and forwards

Growth stocks(strikers)

High momentum have potential for growth, solid business and a growing market.

The take all the glory when the get the goals (Lewandowski of Bayern Munich 10 goals in first 5 games🔥🔥🔥)

Value stocks(midfielders)

These guys have great fundamentals good management and are solidly profitable etc

the have what it take to make flow in the team between the strikers and defenders( 2009 version of cr7 & messi😁).

Dividend stocks(defensive midfielders)

These guys allow you to profit through appreciation in the price of the and through distributions made by the company. The are key part of the defense in trouble times and can help weather economic downturns with reduced volatility (rodri, sergio busquets, Ndidi)

Speculative stocks(wonderkid)

These are stocks you keep just in case, you are not buying to keep for long but for what they give in the near future . (chicharito in his Manchester united days😁)

You buy only little of them maybe because

1. You are still studying them

2. The just improved on earnings and value for first time

At the end of the day

Every investment has at least one problem or two

Its up to you to manage their weaknesses and strengths to build a good team for long-term successes

Management makes all the difference.

Happy investment guys
Global Startup News…Month In Review — February 7, 2020
Tags: Startup, Investors, News, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship

Friday, February 7, 2020

Global Startup News (GSN) is a curated resource, showcasing hard-to-find, early-stage technology companies and related startup industry news from around the world.

Chris Valentine

CEO and Founder

Adeo InterActive

Quote of the Month

“Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.” — Mark Cuban

Featured Startup News

Global | Africa | Asia | Europe | North America

Oceania / Australia | South America | Weekly Spotlights

Global

The World’s Most Productive Countries — Labor Productivity

Source: You Tube

PwC Aviation Industry Forecast 2020 to be another year of strong performance for global aviation industry

Source: Irish Tech News

Europe

Data, Decrypted: What We Learned From Analyzing 6 Years of Startups at Slush

Source: Slush

The year of the French unicorns

Source: Tech Crunch

Dutch scaleup funding 2019

Source: Startup Juncture

New, extensive survey on the Icelandic innovation ecosystem

Source: Northstack

North America

Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley

Source: Axios

How Mormons Built the Next Silicon Valley While No One Was Looking

Source: Medium

The United States Of Venture Capital: The Most Active VC In Each State

Source: CB Insights

Asia

Israel Earns Its Name as the Startup Nation with Over 6,000 Startups

Source: Medium

Bahrain: The challenge of staying competitive

Source: Wamda

A Startup Nation: Why Israel Has Become The New Silicon Valley

Source: Apex

Africa

The biggest problems facing South Africa’s tech entrepreneurs right now

Source: Business Tech

African tech startup funding hits $491m in record-breaking 2019

Source: Disrupt Africa

The top 5 pan-African startup sector developments of 2019

Source: Disrupt Africa

East Africa: EAC Must Not Be Left Behind in Fourth Industrial Revolution

Source: All Africa

Rwanda: Five Major Tech Trends of 2019

Source: All Africa

South America

Investment in cloud and AI to increase in Brazil

Source: ZD Net

Oceania / Australia

How Australia can lead the electric vehicle revolution

Source: Startup Daily

Random Thoughts

Visualizing Unequal State Tax Burdens Across America

Source: Visual Capitalist

In the internet era, public libraries are more vital than ever

Source: Mashable

Australia is building a research submarine

Source: Startup Daily

Who We Are

Global Startup News

If you have any questions, please contact Chris Valentine at valentine@adeointeractive.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/valentinechris
Global Startup News…Month In Review — February 7, 2020
By: Global Startup News
Tags: Startup, Investors, News, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship

Friday, February 7, 2020

Global Startup News (GSN) is a curated resource, showcasing hard-to-find, early-stage technology companies and related startup industry news from around the world.

Chris Valentine

CEO and Founder

Adeo InterActive

Quote of the Month

“Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.” — Mark Cuban

Featured Startup News

Global | Africa | Asia | Europe | North America

Oceania / Australia | South America | Weekly Spotlights

Global

The World’s Most Productive Countries — Labor Productivity

Source: You Tube

PwC Aviation Industry Forecast 2020 to be another year of strong performance for global aviation industry

Source: Irish Tech News

Europe

Data, Decrypted: What We Learned From Analyzing 6 Years of Startups at Slush

Source: Slush

The year of the French unicorns

Source: Tech Crunch

Dutch scaleup funding 2019

Source: Startup Juncture

New, extensive survey on the Icelandic innovation ecosystem

Source: Northstack

North America

Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley

Source: Axios

How Mormons Built the Next Silicon Valley While No One Was Looking

Source: Medium

The United States Of Venture Capital: The Most Active VC In Each State

Source: CB Insights

Asia

Israel Earns Its Name as the Startup Nation with Over 6,000 Startups

Source: Medium

Bahrain: The challenge of staying competitive

Source: Wamda

A Startup Nation: Why Israel Has Become The New Silicon Valley

Source: Apex

Africa

The biggest problems facing South Africa’s tech entrepreneurs right now

Source: Business Tech

African tech startup funding hits $491m in record-breaking 2019

Source: Disrupt Africa

The top 5 pan-African startup sector developments of 2019

Source: Disrupt Africa

East Africa: EAC Must Not Be Left Behind in Fourth Industrial Revolution

Source: All Africa

Rwanda: Five Major Tech Trends of 2019

Source: All Africa

South America

Investment in cloud and AI to increase in Brazil

Source: ZD Net

Oceania / Australia

How Australia can lead the electric vehicle revolution

Source: Startup Daily

Random Thoughts

Visualizing Unequal State Tax Burdens Across America

Source: Visual Capitalist

In the internet era, public libraries are more vital than ever

Source: Mashable

Australia is building a research submarine

Source: Startup Daily

Who We Are

Global Startup News

If you have any questions, please contact Chris Valentine at valentine@adeointeractive.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/valentinechris
Ryu looks to follow Kershaw’s momentum in matchup vs. DeGrom
By: Rowan Kavner
Tags: MLB, Dodgers, Baseball, Pregame

Hyun-Jin Ryu (Jon SooHoo/Los Angeles Dodgers)

by Rowan Kavner

The Dodgers got one of their All-Star starters back on track to start the series at Citi Field on Friday. They’re hoping to do the same on Saturday.

Hyun-Jin Ryu will make his second start of the month and first since Sept. 4 after getting his last start skipped. Ryu used the time to try to fix mechanical issues and work with pitching coach Rick Honeycutt after allowing three earned runs or more in each of his last four starts, something he had never done before.

Even after going 0–3 in his last four games, dropping three straight decisions for the first time since 2017, Ryu still has the best ERA of all qualified pitchers in baseball this year at 2.45.

Manager Dave Roberts said Kershaw set the tone for the series, and he believes Ryu also matches up well against the Mets. Ryu tossed 7 2/3 scoreless innings against the Mets earlier this year at Dodger Stadium on on May 30. In his career, Ryu is 4–1 with a 1.38 ERA against the Mets and is 2–0 with a 1.35 ERA in three starts at Citi Field.

He’ll get a tough test Saturday against another Cy Young candidate in Jacob deGrom. As a team, the Dodgers have won nine straight games in Queens dating back to 2016.

Quick Hits:
A FAN’S VIEW
By: Larry Shenk
Tags: Sports, Philadelphia Phillies, Baseball

Fall Instructs, Day 6

By Steve Potter

**Players were divided into teams for fielding and bunting drills this morning at the Complex. On Roberts field both infielders and outfielders were engaged in throwing and catching tasks with points awarded for different accomplishments. On Schmidt Field bunting competition involving two different groupings. Circles were painted on the field, points per team awarded for bunting locations. It’s a carryover from spring training; breaks up the monotony of regular drills and the guys seem to truly enjoy the team spirit of the competition. Good stuff.

**Scrimmage was held at Spectrum Field at 11:30 AM. Thirteen different pitchers for a 7-inning game. Pitchers were limited to 1 inning each or a pitch count. Daniel Vilchez threw only one pitch as he was hit by a hard line drive up. Vilchez left the mound. Only one pitch, only in Fall Instructs.

**One pitcher of note, 17-year-old Sammy Aldegheri from Italy.

**Two triples in the game, Jose Cedeno and Nicolas Torres. After every game or scrimmage, there’s a meeting on the field to review plusses and minuses. Instruction is the name of the program.

**The fellas are off Sunday and back in action on Monday, a road game against the Jays in Dunedin. Only the Jays and Tigers are participating in FIL games this year among the teams in the area.

Those not going to Dunedin will work out at the Complex.

Back at ’em Monday, Happy Day, Happy Baseball ⚾️
BEANE THERE, DONE THAT.
By: Andrew Siby
Tags: Hollywood Movies, Baseball, Brad Pitt, Movie Review, Data Analytics

PICTURE ABHI BAAKI HAI, MERE DOST

The movie had witnessed a turbulent production. Budget constraints, creative differences, frequent cast and crew changes, scripting issues– a recipe for disaster. Not many to do come out from this pitt (ahem, ahem) and go to the top of the hill (ahem, ahem) — just like the OA’s did a decade back.

Bennett’s approach to the story (thanks to the firepower of Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian) is rewarding. It appeases both the hardcore baseball fans and the general audience who do not know the ABC of sports. He makes sure that his audience doesn’t get bored due to the terminologies and numbers used — a stark contrast from what would have been Steven Soderbergh’s Moneyball.

Wally Pfister, a Nolan regular and fresh off his success of Inception, does a tremendous job at capturing the visuals. My favorite instances are when Beane is driving his car — it shows us his conflicted self and the lighting keeps him in the dark (pun intended). Grey is predominantly used throughout the film, showing us the blandness of the front-office space.

Moneyball didn’t win any of the major movie awards — which is unsurprising, considering its contenders — Drive, Hugo, The Artist, Midnight In Paris and Pitt’s own Tree Of Life.

The legacy of this is that even if you Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V this approach in any walk of life (be it the stock market or medical field), you will get a quantitative and cost-effective approach to derive the best result out of the given situation. This, indeed, is the reason behind the growing acceptance of Business Analytics and Computer Applications.

Despite the early objections to Sabermetrics and statistical analysis in general, it is now the very backbone of sports. Now numbers govern sports — how much impact does one player have in the game, what are the chances that a team would win this match. Statistics (and visual storytelling) increases the fun of the game (I look forward to seeing wagon-wheel in IPL and the tables in newspapers showing Lewis Hamilton’s performance on various tracks).

One could only wonder what would have happened if Billy Beane had used sabermetrics in his own life — first when he was approached by the scouts early in his career and when he could have been the highest-paid GM in the world. One can’t help but laugh when his daughter sings Lenka’s The Show (which is an anachronism, because the song was released only in 2008, a good 6 years from the events of the movie) ♪You’re a loser, dad, you’re such a loser, dad♪ just when the screen cuts to black and reveals that he turns down the $12500000 offer!

This movie would go down in history as one of the best Sports dramas ever made, just like Lewis’ book(s) would be the finest example of how to write non-fiction.