Who is the Architect of Your Deal?
Saturday, August 13
One of the original attendees of our Deal Making Symposium and Syndication Seminar called me recently with an opportunity that he wanted to discuss. Someone wanted to help raise capital for an alumnus and he wanted help with those issues. However, the fund raising and related securities issues ar...
How Intelligent is Your Business?
Wednesday, August 18
I have recently been exposed to a whole new side of business operations and management. This underutilized tool combines accounting, finance, technology and operations. It makes smart companies smarter, and executives across the country and around the world are standing up and taking notice. You ...
How Do You Pick Properties in an Anomaly Market?
Tuesday, August 10
The conditions that real estate is facing right now can only be described as irregular: the free market is not working freely. Banks are holding properties and the Fed has not mandated the sale of these properties. Property owners have lost their equity. Short sales abound and foreclosure is at a...
Should the Concept of Estate Tax Apply to Big Corporations?
Thursday, August 05
The founding fathers of this country, and many of the leaders that followed, watched the wealth accumulated by the early industrialists such as Getty, Rockefeller and Carnegie. Our country’s leaders did not want any person or family to acquire so much wealth that they became more powerful than th...
Can an Imperfect Market Produce Perfect Results?
Monday, August 02
In economics, it's well known that a perfect market is one in which everybody has access to information instantly, accurately, and uniformly. The closest market in the United States to this is our stock market, where the information flows freely; investors know exactly how securities are pric...
Are You Ready to Take Real Estate to the Next Level?
Sunday, June 20
These days, I'm asked more frequently to address real estate related topics than any of the other areas where I help people to raise capital and structure their businesses. The area where I specialize in real estate is known as real estate syndication. Syndication means putting many inv...