| Venture capital is a pretty basic concept. An | | | | There is always a demand for high risk/high return |
| entrepreneur has a brilliant idea and does the | | | | projects and most entrepreneurs are amazed by the |
| research to create a credible and full picture of the | | | | proposal of a investorpreneur to simply offer to buy |
| available market and presents it to private investors | | | | the idea outright. These investorpreneurs then go |
| who are expert at assessing opportunities. The | | | | ahead and re-sell the same idea (sometimes even |
| investor, if convinced of the idea and confident of | | | | retaining the originator of the idea to make the same |
| the proposed management team may decide to go | | | | presentation and the same management team) to |
| ahead and negotiate an aggressive return on their | | | | cashed up high net worth individuals or corporations |
| investment in return for taking on the financial risk. | | | | seeking synergistic investments. |
| That is basically what a venture capitalist does and | | | | This practice is becoming more and more common |
| how they make a return on their investment. | | | | and the deal is usually a win win because the original |
| Assessing new ideas. But there is a new breed of | | | | guy with the idea gets paid well for the idea outright |
| venture capitalists emerging that are much more | | | | and most people would agree that a bird in the hand |
| aggressive about making their investment positions. | | | | is worth two in the bush. While the investorpreneur |
| A investorpreneur is a venture capitalist that doesn't | | | | gets a nice quick markup on the idea and project and |
| invest in the project like the traditional "silent partner" | | | | the end party gets a well documented and |
| role of a venture capitalist. But instead they purchase | | | | professionally researched concept that they can |
| an idea outright. This at first look may seem strange, | | | | invest in. So the investorpreneur gets his own |
| but these investorpreneurs are emerging as "go | | | | investment paid for buy the new party and gets a |
| between's" between entrepreneurs and high net | | | | cut of the success of the project virtually for free. |
| worth individuals. | | | | |