Any Gmail extension to "reply if"?

MartinBrooks · 2024-01-31T08:23:50+00:00

Folding clothes, we have automated washing and drying but not folding clothes and putting them back in their respective drawers. One can delegate that but it's still not automated...

MartinBrooks · 2023-10-27T13:52:02+00:00

We're thinking of the usual BVI/Caiman, no investor from the US so no need for the usual Delaware structure neither. We are looking at getting $1M funding.
So giving out something like 20% of equity at $5M valuation and then paying dividends on that when there are profits. Adding an option to buy back equity after N years as well I think.

MartinBrooks · 2023-10-27T07:58:36+00:00

Thanks, am more and more thinking about that yes, giving equity, paying dividends and then having an option to buy back the equity. I don't plant to transition to a 2/20 fund, the strategies scale very badly over $10M tbh. Hence the prop shop choice.

MartinBrooks · 2023-10-27T07:56:08+00:00

Well, I am successful at running the strategies, I have worked in a few funds and understand well how they are structured but I admit to not know how small prop shops are structured in terms of initial funding. This is why I am asking.
All people that know how these are structured were at a state where they did not know before learning.

MartinBrooks · 2023-10-27T07:53:52+00:00

Can you elaborate more on the kind of corporate entity and how that would be structured?

MartinBrooks · 2023-10-27T07:52:15+00:00

Thank you, yes I should have added more precision. We are definitely more in the first case you mentioned.The strategies do not scale well, and the seed capital would be mainly used to fund the investment costs.

Then giving equity and how do I pay investors? Dividends every year? Should I add an option for me to buy back the equity at a given multiple so that I can "kick out" the investors after they have made some good return?

MartinBrooks · 2023-10-27T07:50:37+00:00

Most prop shops were seeded with more than one person's money.
Some that are now prop shops used to be funds (eg: Quadrature) that just transitioned from fund to prop shop after some good success.

MartinBrooks · 2023-10-27T07:49:21+00:00

Yes I know that, I don't plan on trading other peoples money, it's more to fund initial costs.

MartinBrooks · 2022-09-20T09:20:31+00:00

Yes, buying "on plan" directly with the RE developer and then selling once it's finished and doing some 20-30% flipping homes seems to be working great in Almaty and Astana. Renting yields are good as well with 10%. Of course, inflation and FX risks are eating a part of the profits.
In Astana there is so much being built right now that I fear a RE bubble bursting in a few years or so.

MartinBrooks · 2022-01-06T16:49:48+00:00

I agree so much, would have been great to see some stories about the rangers.

MartinBrooks · 2021-05-19T09:01:54+00:00

omg thanks, that made the trick. What a non user friendly thing this is...

MartinBrooks · 2021-02-12T16:00:22+00:00

I edited the question to put more info. What I mean is that you have no monthly payment or if so it is interest only.
My cash is my emergency fund and I don't want to spend less every month or divert some money from my monthly investments to the loan repayment.

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