Financing Guide for Recycling Businesses: Investment Forums, Meetings and Networks

A Financing Guide for Recycling Businesses: Investment Forums, Meetings and Networks is a guidebook designed to help recycling businesses identify sources of capital and to foster awareness of these opportunities among financiers. It documents the business strengths necessary to attract significant investment. This publication lists ways for entrepreneurs and economic developers to identify a wide range of potential financial partners for recycling companies. It focuses primarily on private equity as a source of financing, e.g., it describes how to set up recycling investment forums, and lists dozens of existing investment groups.

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

The Value of Recycling Businesses
Access to Capital: A Small Business Concern
The Need to Finance Recycling Innovation
How This Guide Can Help

Chapter 2: Recycling Business Planning

Executive Summary
Company Mission
Company Overview
Management Team
Marketing Strategy
Operations Design
Financial Overview
Contingency Options
Confidentiality
Conclusion
Business Planning Resources

Chapter 3: Business Financing Strategies

Debt and Equity Financing-Multiple Options
Debt Financing Tips
Individual Investors-Family, Friends, and “Angels”
Financing Strategies
Legal Structures for Equity Investments
Equity Financing and Securities Laws
Regulation A Offerings
Private Offering under Section 4(2), Securities Act and Regulation D, Rule 506
Regulation D, Rule 505 Offerings
Regulation D, Rule 504 Offerings/Small Corporate Offering Registrations (SCORs) or U-7 Offerings
The Pacific Stock Exchange’s SCOR Marketplace
SCOR Offering Limitations
Conclusion
Financing Resources

Chapter 4: Recycling Investment Forums

Background
The Potential Benefits of Recycling Investment Forums
Recruiting Presenting Businesses
Selecting “Presenting” and “Displaying” Businesses
Polishing Company Presentations
Recruiting Investor Attendees
Forum Agenda and Logistics
Forum Registration and Attendance
Forum Sponsorships
Sample Recycling Investment Forum Budget
Legal Precautions
Forum Evaluation
Limitations of Recycling Investment Forums
Conclusion

Chapter 5: Investment Forum, Meeting, Network and Association Directory

Investment Forums
Investment/Entrepreneurial Meetings
Investment Networks
National Finance and Business Development Organizations and Federal Finance Programs
Value to Recycling Businesses
Using the Directory