(Business Strategist, Media Contributor, and Expert in Raising Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, and the New York Times Best Selling Author of The Entrepreneur Equation Book)

The Strategies that Helped The Entrepreneur Equation book to Hit the New York Times Best Selling List?

What’s the difference between a Jobbie, a Job and a Business? What’s The difference between Financial and Strategic Buyers? What is FIRED-UP? What’s the M&A process? Tips about Investments, Acquisitions, Exit Strategies, Media Strategies, How to put the right Valuation for a Company

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With English and Arabic Subtitle

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Bio

Carol Roth is a national media personality, ‘recovering’ investment banker, investor, speaker and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Entrepreneur Equation. She is currently an on-air contributor for the national cable television station CNBC, the preeminent name in business news. Carol’s multimedia commentary covers business and the economy, current events, politics and pop culture topics.

Previously, Carol was the host of The Noon Show, a current events talk show on WGN Radio and prior to joining CNBC, Carol was seen weekly on a variety of national television outlets including Fox Business, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.

Carol has worked with hundreds of companies, ranging from a single entrepreneur with an idea to Fortune 500 businesses, on all aspects of business and financial strategy. Collectively, she has helped her clients raise more than $1 billion in capital, complete $750+ million in mergers and acquisitions, secure high-profile licensing and partnership deals and create 7-figure brand loyalty programs.

Carol Roth is a Expert in Raising Capital and Acquisitions, Business Strategist, and New York Times Best Selling Author of the book The Entrepreneur Equation

Websites & Social Media Links 

https://www.carolroth.com/

https://twitter.com/caroljsroth

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-roth/b/376/653

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Roth-The-Entrepreneur-Equation/133522800041844

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When some people buy a car or a house, they think this thing is an asset. However, it’s usually a liability. If you buy a car and the car has a certain value, the value will go down the day you take it out from the dealership. There also are expenses related to the car that you are going to pay for over time, such as service, going through the car wash, insurance, and parking fees. A car basically is a liability because it’s taking money from your pocket.

The same thing with a house. So many people think when they buy a house that they’re going to make money or at least the house will keep its value, but the reality is that you are paying a mortgage, interest on the mortgage, maintenance for the house, insurance, and taxes in some countries. Sometimes the house’s value will decline because of the economy. A house is liability, unless you know what are doing as an investor. If you wish to invest in a house, you need to work out a formula to see if it will make money for you in order to consider it as an asset. Otherwise, if the money is negative, it’s a liability.
But if the money is in a positive trend, then yes, it is an asset. An asset always puts money in your pocket, such as when your income as rent from the house is higher than the expenses that you pay for the house. Then your cash flow is positive, and the house is an asset. Another example is in terms of capital gain: If you bought the house at a low rate and sold it later at a higher rate, you made money, so the house is an asset. So in the case of buying a house, it is essential that you study the capital gain and cash flow aspects. My advice is to focus more on the cash flow gain, because it’s continuous and instantaneous.
The same thing applies for your business. When you rent an office or building for your company, it always goes under the liability column, not the asset column, mainly because you are paying money for it, so it’s considered as an expense. However, if your company owns the building or office, then it’s an asset. Some companies put a property in both the asset and liability columns. In this case, they own the office building, so they consider it an asset. They also charge themselves rent to see how much they would be spending in the case that they didn’t own the office. They still add the charge of the rent as income, which helps them calculate their total operations cost.

So to differentiate between an asset and liability, consider whether your pocket or bank account cash is positive or negative.

We all have liabilities, but the point is we need to keep our assets or income rate higher than our liability and expenses. This allows us to use the extra cash to invest in more assets that will generate more income for us. A successful life as investor starts when you’re investing maybe 1–10 percent of your income and use the rest as expenses. Let’s assume that your income is small at the start: $1,000 per month. So you’re investing $100 and spending $900, but with time if you are doing well in your investments and your income jumps to $10,000, then you should not spend $9,000 and invest $1,000. Let’s say that obviously your lifestyle has become better and that costs more money. So at the point of $10,000, if you’re spending $3,000 and investing $7,000, then you’re spending 30 percent of your income and investing 70 percent. Then when you get to the point of $100,000, you should spend $10,000, which is 10 percent of the income, and invest $90,000 (90 percent).

I guess you got the point now; it’s simple, but for most people it’s not easy to implement. The name of the game is investing, but do you have the right skills to win more than you lose? The numbers will give you the answer to that, so make the numbers your friend.

What are the assets that you are currently trying to build, do you have any new ideas about assets development, Please share your thoughts below?

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(General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital, Founder of i360accelerator for Startups, President & CEO of Innovation 360 Institute and Managing Director of Turn8 a seed accelerator program initiated by DP World)

How the Process of Startups Acceleration Works? And the Investment in Technology Startups will Lead us to a new Bubble?

How General Partners and Advisors at a VC Firm get Paid? What’s the Difference between a VC and Private Equity? What are the Different Levels of Investments? 

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With English and Arabic Subtitle

Audio

Bio

Kamal Hassan is General Partner at Fenox Venture Capital, based out of Dubai office and leading the operations in the Middle East. He is a 20-year veteran of the business world with expertise in corporate strategy, innovation management, performance excellence, as well as startup development and growth.

Concurrent to his role at Fenox, Kamal is founder, President and CEO of Dubai-based Innovation 360, a global innovation management firm. As an active supporter of startups and SMEs, Kamal has invested in 19 startups through regional seed funding programs. He is the driving force behind i360accelerator, a 120-day accelerator program for startups, as well as a Managing Director for TURN8, a seed accelerator program organized by DP World.

Websites & Social Media Links 

https://i360accelerator.com/

https://i360institute.com/

https://thecribb.co/

https://www.turn8.co/

https://fenoxvc.com/

https://www.facebook.com/i360accelerator

https://www.facebook.com/AtTheCribb

https://twitter.com/Innovation360

https://www.facebook.com/kamal.hassan.56

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamal12hassan

Interview Questions

• How did you do the transition from biology & genetics to startups & investments?
• Why you decided to come to Dubai and develop the startup community in Dubai?
• Why & How the Turn8 project started by DP world?
• What’s the difference between i360accelator & DP World’s seed accelerator Turn8? And the Cribb?
• How the process of the acceleration works?
• Do the startups need to open a company to be listed in the Cribb?
• Which criteria you use to select startups at the Cribb or Turn8?
• What’s the percentage of startups that you choose from the total applied companies?
• What happens after the graduation of the startups? Do you introduce them to VCs or Angel Investors?
• What’s the most successful startup in terms of net profit that came through the Cribb or Turn8 program?
• What are the major challenges that you are facing with the new startups in the region?
• What are the major challenges for the startups in Dubai?
• Is there’s a real environment of Angel Investors in Dubai? Is the startup market is mature enough?
• How different is the VC & Angel Investing world between the Middle East and the US?
• What’s the difference between a VC and Private Equity Firm?
• You are a general partner at Fenox Venture Capital, what’s the usual structure of a VC company? What does partner or general partner means?
• How those principals, general partners, advisors get paid?
• How do you select the general partner or advisor in your VC?
• What are the different series of investment Example what you call Series A up to the IPO?
• On which criteria would you choose the right IPO market for a Startup or company?
• How somebody can pitch Fenox for investment? It can be an early stage startup or after the Angel round?
• What’s the system that startups follow to put a value for their startup? Don’t you think these values are exaggerated most of the time?
• Do you think this focus in investing in technology will lead us to a bubble?
• How about the offline or physical products project which is representing more than 90% of the projects in the world? Do you or Fenox or the Cribb invest in?
• How the consultancy services of the innovation 360 works? Do you provide 1:1 coaching?
• What’s your personal portfolio of investments?
• How a startup can pitch you?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Take us through your typical working day?
• What are your other hobbies?
• 3 things that you believe are the most important factors for any success?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by? 
• What are the things that make you happy?
• How people can contact you?

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(CEO of Scense, Managing Partner of 247 Invest Venture Capital)

How to Successfully Get Investments and Mentoring to Launch Your Start Ups and The Differences Between Raising Capital In the US, Europe and the Middle East

The Differences Between Raising Capital from Angle Investors, Incubators and VCs

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With English and Arabic Subtitle

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Bio

Sacha Vekeman is the Managing Partner of 24/7 invest Venture Capital, board member and co-founder of different companies in various fields, he’s also a mentor for many startups and big companies. He is the CEO at Scense, which is a fast growing software company. Sacha has more than 15 years of experience in large multinational corporations, technology startups and high-growth companies.

Websites & Social Media Links

https://www.247invest.net/

https://www.scense.com/

https://qamira.com/

Interview Questions

• What’s the main focus of 247 in terms of regions and industries?

• What’s the portfolio of the companies that you have invested in?

• At what stage of investment 247 get involved, early stage,
profitable companies, other stages?

• Did you go public with any of the companies that you invested in?

• Can you tell more about your background before getting involved
in the VC world? And how did you get involved in it?

• Do you personally invest out of 247 or all your investments goes
through 247?

• As you are a partner in a VC firm, means you like to have control
in the companies that you invest in, do you still like to Angel Invest in different companies and have no control over it?

• How many partners & employees you have in 247?

• What’s the major role of each employee of a typical VC
company? As many people think that the VC job is so easy and
relaxing?

• What’s the success rate of the companies that you or your
companies have invested in?

• How somebody can pitch you? And what are the things that you
want to see in a pitch?

• What’s iMinds, can you please clarify your major role in it?

• What’s the difference between Private Equity & Venture Capital?

• In financing & fundraising, what’s the difference between selling
technology (customer model and selling shares/stock (investment
model)?

• How to valuate a new startup? How many ways are out there to
put a value for a new startup?

• What are the companies that you have invested in, in the Middle
East?

• Do you get involved in the company trade license or you open an
offshore company?

• What are the challenges that you face in the Middle East in terms
of finding or working with new investors or startups?

• Why most of the Angel Investors or VCs now days are focused
more on the fashion of the Technology & Online Startups, how
about the Offline Startups?

• Why all the investing concept is built around capital gain and
exiting the investment, how about cash flow? • Can you recommend some Angel Investors or VCs that works
with the offline or online industries?

• What are the other ways that you know or recommend to raise
capital for new startups?

• How much is the salary of the VC members, is true that most of
them are employees

• What are the services that you provide through Prosquare?

• Take us through your typical working day?

• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?

• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay
efficient?

• What are your top 3 favorite books?

• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?

• What are the things that make you happy?

• How people can find you or contact you?

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