New channel for venture equity.

Hi,

I am working on a large project of mine (hush hush) for the moment, but came up with this one which may have some legs for anyone interested in taking it on. I have only given this a brief amount of thought, so please excuse the brevity and any glaring failure points (may need a lot of further thought). The potential of the site is based on the unique? proposition at the end 'THE MAIN DIFFERENTIATOR'.

Social network site for Business Concepts, Ongoing Concerns and Investors.

Anyone who joins the site would need to digitally sign a NDA (More rigorous agreement contracts can be negotiated depending on project at a later stage)

Profile to be completed by member to an acceptable standard.

Posting of propositions.

Tools for video presentations, PPT, video pitching.

3rd party auxiliary services offered might include; Mentoring, Legal, Business Planning, etc.

Revenue stream derived from a small percentage of ventured investment/shares (capped) taken from the client side? and/or auxiliary services and advertising.

The power of a social network site of this kind comes from the comments/review/5 star rating system, with ratings of ratings and weighing of valued input. The more input you get, the more data on valued input from members you have and you can start using bayesian type probability methods to accurately gauge member acumen (you may even want to analyse the textual opinion data using semantic analysis (apparently works nicely with large data sets).


THE MAIN DIFFERENTIATOR : The minimum investment would be £10 with no maximum (commitment of smaller investments would be required at earlier stages than large)
I foresee a lot of work in financial compliance, but there are a large number of experts in that field. Global compliance for this kind of project? There's a lot of people in the world.

The concept of increasing the flow of venture information and opportunity may put off many VC's and Business Angels as no incumbent wishes to increase information flow outside of their domain unless market pressures demand, but I am sure some forward thinking investors might find the proposition intriguing.

Maybe a project for the 'Business Ideas and Opportunities' team?

Mark

(Just thought I'd throw that one in there as I am busy structuring my main project)

Thanks for the reply,

The main USP is the minimum level of entry for investment. When alternative capital enters a market, the flow of capital via incumbent investors increases, something everyone needs during these times. I imagine something similar to the 'zopa.com' banking model but for private equity (As anyone considered the 'zopa.com' model for insurance?).

Also, the initial digital NDA (proxy digital contracts are maturely precedented) plus maintaining a heuristic/guideline due process in the presentation of offerings would, I believe, be a benefit to success.

The real benefits from the community come once a measurable indication of quality of input is achieved.

I must admit I've only briefly searched for this kind of service on the web, but I have not come across anything offering these facilities. If you could recommend some sites, I would be interested in taking a look.

My main goal at the moment is putting together a team of intelligent and enthusiastic (but pragmatic) people, for involvement in a much larger project (web based project/market platform for SMEs). If anyone would like to be involved, then please send me a message with a brief description of commercial experience and interests. I have an NDA prepared for interested parties so that we can discuss the details of the project.

Mark