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We are a Venture Capital Club of unique risk-adverse accredited investors. We only invest our money in international companies
selling their product or service and following the Venture Capital Profits strategy. Unlike other Venture Capital Clubs, we
don’t fund startup high-tech and bio-tech companies because the odds of their success are very slim. If you want to
be in the vanguard of the international investment movement risking your money on quality companies, you can be part of the
global adventure by joining us. We’re different and we know that we are right. We focus on low risk and long term profits.
We invest in real companies with honest decision-makers as CEOs. We have one of the best client accountability systems in
the world.
We are interested in funding three types of non-U.S. ventures.
I. We do PIPE financings (Private Investment in Public Equities) for operating companies that follow the Venture Capital Profits
strategy and meet these requirements:
A. The company has revenues of at least US$500,000/year.
B. There is a global market for the company's product or service.
C. Our investment will be used only to acquire cash-producing assets and thus increase the company's annual income and balance
sheet value.
D. The company's management will follow the Venture Capital Profits Strategy.
E. The company has pooled and vaulted all insider shares and will keep them out of the Market until the insiders sell their
public company to a major multinational corporation.
F. Within a year or two, the public company expects to have over $5,000,000 in revenues by acquiring more cash-producing assets
with a combination of cash and their publicly traded shares.
G. Within the next five to seven years, the company intends to continue to build its asset base to $100,000,000 using its
shares and profits to do so.
H. The company plans to list its shares on a stronger U.S. Stock Exchange than the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
I. The public company's exit strategy is to be acquired by a major multinational corporation in a friendly takeover.
J. To make this strategy work, the company will maintain a strong and sustainable share price well above that paid by our
members.
Our members goal is to build a $200,000/year stock portfolio of quality companies by reinvesting the same $12,000 over and
over again in a series of public companies. We invest in non-American companies whose shares trade in the United States. Our
method of investment is a discounted Private Placement in the company's stock. Our short-term goal is to recover our risk
capital. Our long-term goal is to sell our shares at the highest possible price when a major multinational corporation acquires
the company.
Private Non-U.S. Companies
II. We buy private non-U.S. companies located in countries with a strong tradition of support for private enterprise. The
private company must have a national market for its goods or services and the potential for exporting their product to the
world.
We put the acquired company on the Venture Capital Profits path with the expectation that in five to seven years we’ll
make our profit. Our timeframe for profit is consistent with other Venture Capital Clubs goal. However, our multinational
corporation sale’s strategy is based upon the transaction being done in publicly traded shares and thus our profit is
always a multiple of a private company’s value based upon its balance sheet value.
Environmental Issues
III. Environmental problems are long-term economic issues. Dealing with these growing environmental issues will cause a major
shift in the distribution of wealth. In practical terms this means that some private companies must fail, while others will
greatly increase in value. Our members are trying to buy those private firms that will clearly benefit over the next quarter
century. Our vision sees more than simply making money in buying these private companies.
Why We Invest in Global Companies?
1. Staffing costs are usually far below those of the United States.
2. There is more opportunity to buy cash-producing assets outside the United States for U.S. Dollars and publicly traded shares
valued in U.S. Dollars.
3. Potential Merger & Acquisition Multinational Corporation buyers of our investments want to acquire assets outside the United
States.
4. There are far more foreign companies with a global vision than U.S. Domestic Companies.
5. Costs of buying businesses are less overseas and the potential for their growth is greater.
6. Our members assets are primarily in the United States, our Club gives our members a low risk method of making foreign investments.
We are strong believers in not putting all of your eggs in one basket.
We Are More Concerned About Losing Money than Making Money!
1. Investment is risk. In 2003, four hundred and sixty four Mutual Funds failed. There are always a few municipal bonds that
default. Banks and brokerage firms fail. Only about two percent of the Small Capital Investors consistently make money in
the Market each year.
2. Our members can be at risk $12,000 for up to the first six months of their membership. Thereafter, they could still lose
their $12,000, but their stock portfolio’s value would more than offset them for their loss.
3. Companies that are making money and growing using a leveraged acquisition strategy are far less likely to fail than startup
companies.
The Global Village Investment Club
1. We aren’t a Get Rich Quick Scheme! It will take five to seven years for you to see a profit with us.
2. We aren’t speculators. We are risk-adverse investors. We believe that everything you do is risk, but that risk can
be controlled.
3. We aren’t Day Traders. We aren't aggressively buying and selling shares in the hope of beating the Market System.
4. As a member of our Club, you will have obligations to keep our Covenant. We explain our Covenant at the New Member Orientation
Meeting.
Joining GVIC
We offer New Member Orientation Meetings to small groups of investors who want to know more about our program. If you are
interested in attending one of our New Member Meetings, please email us. Your subject line should state GVIC Orientation Meeting
and the city in which you live. We’ll plan a future meeting near you.
BeowulfInvestments
[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] screens out projects. If you have a proposal or project that you feel might
interest our Venture Capital Club, please submit it through this merchant bank.
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What is an Accredited Investor?
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) defines an accredited investor as a person with over a $1 million in assets
or whose income is at least $200,000 ($300,000 jointly with a spouse).
Tens of millions of investors meet the SEC’s definition of an Accredited Investor based upon their net worth. For investors,
net worth is defined as the value of a person's assets, including cash, minus all liabilities. The amount by which the individual's
assets exceed their liabilities is considered the net worth of that person.
Do you have over $1 million in assets? If you paid $200,000 or more for your home over ten years ago in a strong real estate
market, like the San Francisco Peninsula or Scottsdale, Arizona or hundreds of other affluent communities in America and you
haven’t refinanced and taken money out, the answer is probably "yes". If you have owned more than one real estate parcel
for more than ten years and haven’t refinanced and taken money out, the odds are you meet the asset requirement. Determine
the net worth of your assets and add them up. If the sum value of your assets are more than $1 million, you are an Accredited
Investor.
For you to maintain your lifestyle, salaries must adjust upward annual to offset inflation. If you were earning $50,000/year
25 years ago, you must be earning over $200,000/year now to maintain your same standard of living.
One of the major reasons to consider joining GVIC is that your eventual retirement annuity will give you a fixed income for
the rest of your life. Inflation will steadily reduce the buying power of your fixed income annuity. For the past decade,
inflation has been about 6%/year. In 2005, it will be at least 9%. In 2006, it will probably be double digit. Divide the inflation
rate into 72 to determine the years it will take to reduce your buying power in half. If you retired on January 1, 2005 and
the inflation rate remains at 9%, your fixed income will buy half as much in just 8 years. If inflation continues at 9%/year,
in 16 years, you will have an income that will buy 25% of what it would buy in January 2005. Can you live on 25% of your current
income in 2021? If your answer is "no," consider our solution.
Get rich schemes are usually scams. While GVIC has a unique plan to return your risk capital quickly. This low risk strategy
of speculating in quality companies with sound management may lack the excitement of betting on long shots in Vegas or at
the track. Your profit will be deferred for 5 to 7 years. You may not want to wait that long to take your fixed income prospects
to the next level. Your profit potentially, greatly exceeds 15%/year, but the adventure of being in the vanguard of the Global
Village movement may not be a place that interests you. Our approach doesn’t meet everyone’s needs. You may not
have an international view. If you believe that the only way to make real money is to ensure that others lose their real
money, you won’t like our "Everyone wins" viewpoint. If you think environmental issues are media myths and not economic
fire bells, you won’t understand the imperative that motives us to globalize to survive.
Because you are an accredited investor doesn’t mean you should risk your money with GVIC or anyone else. If you have
a relatively lower risk investment strategy that will keep your buying power intact after taxes, use it. However, at a 9%
inflation rate, you must be earning 15% on your investment to keep your buying power intact. The inflation & taxes economic
imperative is real. Attend a GVIC Orientation meeting and determine if our solution is as real.
If you tend to agree with our Website’s viewpoint, attend a GVIC Orientation meeting. If you think the world economy
is doing well and will only get better, you should continue to keep your head in the sand. You’re the decision-maker.
Our mission is to avoid the iceberg that is clearly visible to anyone who will look into the future. We are trying to ensure
that our families, descendants and some small part of the world, doesn’t pay the price of environmental ignorance, short
term greed and a failure to keep our population within sustainable numbers. Everyone has a right to a decent life. In the
21st Century, far fewer people will achieve it by 2050.
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PIPE’s Are Profitable
If you want to know how profitable, attend a GVIC New Member Orientation Meeting
Members Make Money By:
1. Participating in PIPE financings of operating public companies that meet our standards.
2. Bringing operating companies to the Club that meet the VCP standards.
3. Participate in buying private companies that meet the VCP standards and taking them public so that our members can do a
PIPE financing.
GVIC members do PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equities) financings of non-American companies that trade in the US OTC
Market. Here’s an article from Dow Jones on the merits of speculating in OTC-traded non-American companies.
"Market Watch" article
Ten Reasons You Should Join GVIC - Now
1. We do Private Placements in Public Equities (PIPEs). Our investment strategy is unique. It works! It relies on leverage
& liquidity to ensure profits.
2. We are internationalists in the vanguard of the Global Village movement. We are changing the world one dollar at a time.
3. We invest in real public companies with revenues. These companies are evolving into being multinational corporations.
4. We buy quality private companies and take them public. We make our money when we sell these quality public companies at
Market Capitalization to industry giants.
5. We invest in operating private companies that will
benefit from the pending Environmental Crisis. If we don’t save the planet, we are all lost.
6. We offer a way to pass onto our heirs the wealth we build in the Global Village for the next millennium.
7. Environmental issues are economic issues. Our mission is to save our families and ourselves. In the process, we hope to
lead the world toward a wiser global strategy that balances the needs of mankind with those of the natural world.
8. If you want to be a leader in a different world, joining us will take your vision to the next level.
9. We offer logical, responsible solutions to an uncertain future.
10. We know how to make money and preserve wealth.
Attend our next New Member Orientation Meeting
THE 20 QUESTION
RETIREMENT QUIZ
If you plan to retire in the next 15 years, you need answers to these questions.
1. How will you manage inflation on a fixed income?
2. After you retire, what will you do if your private company pension fund fails?
3. For your retirement, how reliant are you on Social Security?
4. What will you do if your fixed-income taxes are increased?
5. Do you want to be reliant on your children for financial support?
6. As you age, your health care costs will increase, how will you pay for elective surgery, if you want it?
7. Your homeowner tax benefits are likely to be reduced. Local taxes on real property steadily increase. How will you manage
to pay these taxes relying on your fixed income?
8. Will your 401K investments survive a major economic shift? Betting unwisely before the start of the next Depression or
Hyperinflation will destroy your retirement nestegg.
9. How do you plan to limit your Estate Taxes?
10. How will you avoid Probate?
11. Once you retire, where do you plan to live?
12. How can you ensure your grandchildren and their children will be able to pay for a college education or get a solid start
in life?
13. Assuming the political trend toward centralized authority continues, how will you find personal freedom in your old age?
14. How will you protect your retirement nestegg against a derivative’s meltdown?
15. What are your survival plans, if a global environmental crisis occurs before you die?
16. What will your spouse do, if you die first? How will they financially survive?
17. What happens to you and your wife, if you lose a major lawsuit after you retire?
18. Assuming you become seriously sick before you die, will you be able to afford nursing care for yourself or your wife?
19. In addition to your estate, what financial options will you pass onto your children and grandchildren?
20. What do you intend to do once you retire?
We have unique answers to all of these questions and more. Our solutions are based upon an international vision. We offer
a different approach that you should consider before you are trapped by economic failure in an uncertain future. We are in
the vanguard of those escaping Government shortsightedness and social indifference.
If you attend a GVIC Orientation, our new member package includes answers to these questions.
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