i don't know the type of buisness you are looking for an investment in. however if the business plan is solid and the idea is really good, the companies listed below can help.

the thing with venture capital however is they do take a percentage of the business. They are gambling on your success and yes they absolutely want a say in how things are being run.

Note: just kinda went thru my linkedin and pulled the ones that looked promising.

http://www.capitalaccessnetwork.com/

Capital Access Network, INC. (CAN) has been serving small businesses for more than a decade.

We develop and improve upon ways to make it easier to get - or deliver - what every business needs: working capital. Our wholly-owned subsidiaries have provided over $2 billion in more than 80,000 transactions.

Our subsidiaries' working capital products build on the power of Daily Remittance. This creates the flexibility required to meet the needs of each unique small business being served.

As a result, this has provided our Data Services Division with detailed information on sales activity occurring in small businesses since 1998.

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http://www.urbanselect.com/

Urban Select Capital Corporation is an investment issuer focused on investing growth capital into private and public companies in a broad range of sectors including renewable energy, natural resources, chemicals, agriculture and consumer retail services. Urban Select’s management team is composed of investment professionals combining an Asian background with Western education and extensive experience in investment banking, venture capital and fund management in Canada, China and the U.S.
Resource projects are currently our main focus.
Specialties

Raising Venture Capital
Valuations
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A's)
Joint Ventures (JV's)
Reverse Take Over's (RTO's)
Deal Sourcing, Events and Seminars,


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http://www.mobiusvc.com/

DENVER Area would have been good but no longer investing :(

Mobius Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund comprised of seasoned veterans and entrepreneurs from leading technology companies, who bring not only deep domain expertise, but also hands-on operating experience to the companies in our portfolio.

Mobius Venture Capital began investing in 1996 -- early investments included Geocities, ELoan, USWeb, and Verisign. The current fund, Mobius VI, has been invested in over sixty innovative technology companies including, Danger (Acq. MSFT), deCarta, FeedBurner (Acq. GOOG), Impinj, Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), LRN, Postini (Acq. GOOG), Quova, Sling Media (Acq. DISH), Stratify (Acq. IRM), and Technorati.

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http://www.intellectualventures.com/Home.aspx

“An industry dedicated to financing inventors and monetizing their creations could transform the world.”
–Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and CEO

We believe ideas are valuable. At Intellectual Ventures, we invest both expertise and capital in the development of inventions. We collaborate with leading inventors and partner with pioneering companies. By providing access to our portfolio of patents, we help our customers innovate and reduce their risk by Bridging the Invention Gap™ between the invention rights they currently have and the invention rights they need.

As the global leader in the business of invention and owner of one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing patent portfolios, we are creating an active market for invention that connects buyers, sellers, and inventors. We do this by:

Employing talented inventors here at Intellectual Ventures who work on new inventions to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
Purchasing inventions from individual inventors and businesses and combining them into market-specific portfolios, which we then license broadly.
Partnering with our international network of more than 3,000 inventors and helping them to monetize their inventions.




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nice post Dragon ... sticky

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a techer is good, in teaching specialization, and market trends, same with a commie indy.

Both strats however are market trend dependent, while cash flow can be good, if priced wrong and too high it can hurt. Both depend on Goods selling on the public market to keep taking turns. get this wrong and the country's growth is stunted. It is also frustrating to new players to login after long hours of waiting to see someone undercut their sale price, causing them to acquire few to no sales. Which means they would need to be fairly active in tracking what the market does to pull goods down and reset sell prices as needed.

The easiest strategy I found for a beginner is a Fascist Farmer.

Mainly because there are fewer things to keep track of, and has a higher threshold for recovery when mistakes are made.

Fascist Farmer Build a good count construction sites getting your build per turn to 50+
Explore
build farms
sell food
buy agricultural and military technology
buy adequate defense for your country

check the score sheet and compare your land to net worth ratio to other countries around you. If you seem a bit land fat get more defensive military, or buy up some weapons tech to minimize your military expenses.

If you plan on land grabbing other countries keep in mind it is not what you take but what you keep that ultimately counts at the end of the day.

A Draft of an Unofficial Earth Empires User Guide is now available.

http://revlonred.clanteam.com/...res_Draft_User_Guide.html

Let me know what you think.

A couple of things to note some of the info in the user guide was pulled from the wiki. I would like to give credit where credit is due so if those who wrote parts of the wiki recognize there work and would like for me to add their names to a credit section I can definitely do this. Alternately if they want me to rewrite it in my own words I will pull it down and re-write it.

If you have material you would like to include in the User Guide or rewrite a section making it easier to understand please let me know so I can include it.

last note ... sorry for the colors, will work on them at some point in time. The website is still a work in progress slowly adding content over time. If you have strategies, tools, or general game information you would like to see posted let me know and I will do what I can to get it up there for you.

BTW, no worries about the clan thing, I am not really recruiting at the moment. This more of a pet project to get game help information out there and available to new players stumbling onto our little world ;)

If oil was at the right price we would not be seeing cheap military and tech on the market. Turrets this early in the game should be fluctuating $160-180.

With oil that cheap land grabbing is made way too easy from a financial perspective, so we get 30k acre commies. If players had to choose targets carefully because oil was at a premium it would definitely change the dynamics.

With oil at 210 it costs 8.4M to move a million jets. spending 40M + for 5 planned strikes a day would stabilize prices. A lot less suicides too because you are not going to get the 200-300 hits in without some significant cost associated to it.

just my take on the price of oil... probably not worth the 2 cents of electricity it used to post this :p

Congrats PapaSmurf and Symac have fun and tell the Monsters in my closet to play nice :)

As a Fascist I can sell it for 60 on my Private Market ... no Taxes :p

Why on earth would anyone be selling oil @ $60 a barrel???

10K acre fascist oiler will beat a techer or casher to hell and back when prices are just right ;)

sad part is those selling the oil rarely realize the demand is there regardless of price :o

3.5 barrels per acre * 9000 acres = 31,500 barrels per turn * $280 per barrel = $8,820,000

very small amounts of tech needed mostly

* military tech which is cheap at the start of a reset

* a little biz/res to minimize cash loss per turn (done right you can have a positive cash flow)

* Agri tech to minimize the amount of farms needed for positive food flow achievable with about 300-500 farms

* Weapons for defense

* SDI needs no explanation

* mil strat if planning to landgrab

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180 CS optimal CS for 10k acres
320 Indies for spies
500 Farms
9000 Rigs

oil @ $210 matches the techer with tech @2200... but you do not have to buy food.

why sell oil under $200 ??? that is if you want a top 10 finish...

/me belly dances for Boltar to subdue his need for war :D

Please forward offer or consider me if looking for the same:)

Country: Tigress(#13)

I went ahead and joined up with Papa Smurf for this reset.

Thanx for all of the offers, if i play again on this server i will keep you in mind...

Happy Hunting
Tigress

Hi Boltar, jeez if i only had the time to war properly :D but then only if Boltar leads the warchat, its gotta be fun :o
-- BTW sending you a PM.

PapaSmurf, you were my first thought, sent a message to boneSaw but was too late you got # 5 by the time he got to read it. I would have to start and play DBD1. unless you started it already will have to check. I should still have the password will let you know if I have trouble finding it.

@ Tross I will keep you in mind, my rule of thumb is usually going with the first viable offer. I will see what kind of arrangements i end up with @DBD, if it fails I will let you know. unless Boltar says MKR in which case I may have to dust off the old war armor :p

kk, did realize it was that resource intensive...

what about a tracking table that is updated via a trigger that is executed only if a country has an active standing order on the market and their cash on hand changes.

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country id | resource | ask price | ask qty | cash on hand | active | buy power
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update the ask price, ask qty, cash on hand, active and buy power when those change.

buy power = cash on hand / ask price

Deactivate any standing order when buy power = 0 or when ask qty = 0.

(offer below is just for this reset dunno that I am going to be playing on this server going forward)

Anyone looking for a player for their team?

or are there any untagged players who may be interested in starting up a new team?

let me know either here or via PM ... my country is also very easy to find if you want to send me a message ingame ;)

Happy Hunting
Tigress

hmmm... make it for only one good at a time, and only run the query on demand

filter to countries that have ask orders for the particular resource and sum cash on hand from country table?

the join can be on country id (assuming ask price and resource is stored with a country id and table containing cash on hand also has a country id) --- where resource = @resource

just thinking out loud I guess

lol, as nutty as this reset was you should be happy to be in the top 25 ;)

1. was going to go techer and had all labs built to 6600 acres.
--- Tech prices were really low
--- Got hit like ten times early reset due to an inability to get proper defense i.e. insufficient cash.

2. ended up having to convert to a Theo Oiler of all things
--- Manipulate the market just enough to sell oil at insane prices (i.e. very long nights of market camping)

3. had to actually bottom feed to recover lost acreage because it was to high of a loss. NOTE: I normally play All-x and leave everyone alone.

4. somehow thru a miracle of miracles the low end of the top 25 was still in range.

is there a way of adjusting the ask quantity based on a summarized cash on hand of n countries requesting?

Example: (i don't know the schema therefore... psuedo)

select askprice, sum(cashonhand), (sum(cashonhand) / askprice ) as qtyAsked

from countrymarket

where activecountry = 1

Group by askprice, sum(cashonhand), (sum(cashonhand) / askprice )

Can we get a link showing how big an order is on an ask price?

For those selling they may be willing to fill an order, but would prefer not to send all their goods at the lower price.

or provide a report showing the various asking prices and quantities willing to buy next to each one.

lol he could have built 200 labs and gotten more tech per turn ...

@blid they finally starting to look semi - reasonable. ;D

do you know if those numbers are based off of what is available or what sold?

a market bot... a feed of the prices on the market and what is being bought at what price. Boxcar hosting has this for the alliance servers. It would be a nice to have unless it already exists for the non-alliance servers.

unless by some chance i could get my hands on the historical data to do some analysis with :p --- poke qzJul & pang

it just seemed like prices were a bit low or way too low for the start of a reset. even with a tech start the cashers and farmers would be reselling at higher prices.

why would anyone do a tech phase with prices this low, it's a dream come true for Indies/Cashers and Farmers. Gives them an early headstart, should be seeing more countries with high networths this reset. Republics in the top 10?

is there an express market bot available either thru boxcar or the earthempires IRC?

yeah

FernGully (#34) -- a little of everything, will be teching this reset.

logged into %1819 tech for biz/rez :o ... really c'mon you are joking right? indie and agri hovering at 2600 -- what is going on, has the game changed that much?

tech should be selling for 5K this early in the reset.

tech under 3k at the start of the reset and tanks for $439 ... ??

if it stays this way demo cashers are going to have a blast.

lol, I've thought about it but time constraints would have me completing one in about 5-10 years from now :p

looking to install a content management system (CMS).

does anyone have any experience with either one or both? looking for feedback, ease of use, useful add ons, and pros and cons.

"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"... (Wimpy)

a restart bank would be interesting in wars.

or make it so n% of goods on the market are recoverable for 3 turns in the event of detah.

thank you Marshall yes that is what I meant in my garbled encrypted message :D

and why no vacation mode mid-killrun :( My dreams of vacationing in the smoldering ruins of a country have been shattered.

uBer I can definitely see trading turns for immunity, could be very useful. Especially if the player could still perform some actions.

omg how can anyone live there... do they know how many blades their lawn consists of :p

Next time work your way over to the PCH, a much more scenic route.

that was highway robbery btw, once you get out of the boondocks the prices will start going back to normal. That is everything except for the price of gas and real estate. California pays o so much more for gas.

$7 for a whopper meal sounds about right, preference is with In and Out though ;)

lol it's Bakersfield... a bus stop in the middle of nowhere.

how the heck did you end up in Bakersfield :p

Attacks

NM - Nuclear Missiles

CM - Chemical Missle

EM - Cruise Missile

SS - Standard strike

PS - Planned strike

GS - Guerrilla strike

BR - Bombing run

AB - Artillery barrage

HPK - Hits per kill

KR - Kill run

LG - Landgrab

RoR - Retal on a retal

OOP - Out of Protection

CF - Cease fire.



SPY

SR - Stir Rebellions

CD - Cause dissentions

DM - Demoralize



Country Management

BPT - Build Per turn

TPT - Tech Per Turn

FPT - Food Per Turn

PCI - Per Capita Income

SPT - Spies Per Turn

SPA - Spies Per Acre

CS - Construction Sites

TNW - Total net worth.

ANW - Average Networth


Buildings

CS - Construction Sites

Res - Residences

Ent - Enterprise Zones

Indies - Industrial Complexes

Rigs - Oil rigs

MB - Military Bases

Labs - Research Labs

MMR - Minimum Military Requirement




Tech

Mil - Military

Med - Medical

Biz - Business

Res - Residential

Agri - Agricultural

War - Warfare

Mil Strat - Military Strategy

Wep - Weapons

Indie - Industrial

spy - Spy

SDI - SDI (space defense initiative)

now that would be pretty cool mid kill-run the assumption being you could log on before the country died ;)

Set tax rate at desired level:28%-36%
Set Spy production @ 100 %

Sell food and spies as needed to build
Buy turrets as needed

Build 10 farms --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 2
Build 80 CS --- 80 Turns --- Turn # 82

Explore ~40 acres --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 83
Build 50 farms --- 2 turns --- Turn # 85
Build 8 CS --- 8 Turns --- Turn # 93

Explore ~80 acres --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 95
Build 27 indies --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 96
Build 27 farms --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 97

--- Depending on server stop and store turns (to stay in protected mode.)

Build 12 CS --- 12 Turns --- Turn # 109

Explore ~80 acres --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 111
Build 30 farms --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 112
Build 30 indies --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 113
Build 20 CS --- 20 Turns --- Turn # 133

Explore ~80 acres --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 135
Build 35 farms --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 136
Build 35 indies --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 137
Build 40 CS --- 40 Turns --- Turn # 177

Explore ~120 acres --- 3 Turns --- Turn # 180
Build 45 farms --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 181
Build 45 indies --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 182

Explore ~80 acres --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 184
Build 20 CS --- 20 Turns --- Turn # 204

Explore ~80 acres --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 206
Build 50 farms --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 207

Explore ~80 acres --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 209
Build 50 indies --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 210
Build 40 CS --- 40 Turns --- Turn # 250

Explore ~80 acres --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 252

Build 38 farms --- .5 Turn --- Turn # 253
Build 22 indies --- .5 Turn --- Turn # 253
Total 60 buildings (build together on same turn)

Build 40 CS --- 40 Turns --- Turn # 293

Explore ~80 acres --- 2 Turns --- Turn # 295
Build 70 farms --- 1 Turn --- Turn # 296
Build 20 CS --- 20 Turns --- Turn # 316

Explore ~1000 acres --- 25 Turns --- Turn # 341
Build 1050 farms --- 14 Turns --- Turn # 355

Explore ~1440 acres --- 36 Turns --- Turn # 391
Build 1425 Labs--- 19 Turns --- Turn # 410

Explore ~3250 acres --- 125 Turns --- Turn # 535
-- this is alliance server / other servers may need more turns to get to desired acreage (i.e. primary where you can only store 80 turns) --- approximate explore rate at this point is 26 acres per turn,

Build 3300 Labs--- 43 Turns --- Turn # 578

Teardown and rebuild 1350 farms as labs 18 Turns --- Turn # 596
Explore and teardown 9 indies to get 75 buildable acre for labs
--- 1 - 2 turns --- Turn # 597 - 600

When done you will have approximately 6630 Acres
6150 labs producing 2010 Tech points per turn(TPT)
200 indies producing just under 130 spies per turn (SPT)
280 Construction Sites with a Build per turn (BPT) of 75

--- this allows for a little over 100k points of tech per day.
--- sell as much tech as you can if possible 2-3 times per day.


--- This is where you can make good money during the early part of the reset. do this for about 10 - 12 days

then tear-down labs and rebuild to strat of choice. i.e. farmer, casher.

Looking for Def and Intel allies
-- FernGully (#138)