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Business Owners

 

Confronted by launch, recovery, or growth issues (Coronaviruses notwithstanding), business owners often face overwhelming challenges.  How to 'get there from here' can be daunting, as is re-establishment, especially after a downturn that caused both customers and suppliers to disappear.  As sales volume and margins diminish, traditional management methods are frequently inadequate.  When trapped in this manner, what is the answer?

 

Then there's the 'friendly banker' issue.  At one time, an established business could count on its local banker for financial support.  Today, not so much.  Most will find that they must contend with what is known as the 'missing middle'*.  This refers to the enterprise as too large to qualify for "micro-loans" – a home-owner equity line', for example – or too small to be served by conventional lenders. 

 

Traditional bank models no longer fit.  It is impossible to provide five years of sound, historical financials when the markets that generated them have vanished.  Moreover, a new launch will lack verifiable history and give the collateral and 'gearing' (ratios) that most lending institutions demand.  The once' friendly neighbourhood banker' no longer exists.

 

Conversely, forecasted returns must be much higher than what the average SME can generate to attract investor support.  Such limited growth prospects typically discourage even the most patient financial participant.  Focused on 'viability-driven' growth initiatives, Entrepreneurialize Opportunity can often create, structure and help execute what are frequently simple but practical solutions.

 

*Missing Middle: Term accredited to Celine Kauffmann, Deputy Head of the Regulatory Policy Division in the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate  

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Property Holders

 

​Holding tangible property assets that are not fully productive can be troublesome.  Similarly, opportunity prospects become uncertain when the unrealized potential is elusive in a world confronting unrest and volatility.  This impact may affect regional markets or be property-specific, challenging owners and tenants.  Whereas many markets demonstrate fairly significant value appreciation, a current threat is a lack of affordability.  Will a proposed development plan deliver a project that overcomes this issue, or will it price itself out of the market with a call for more significant deposits?  Alternatively, as today's higher values require ever-larger mortgage loans, the likelihood of higher interest rates may also have an adverse effect. 

 

Active markets and rising values notwithstanding, not all property owners are in a position to respond if for no other reason than their expertise lies elsewhere – i.e., 'not all who drive a car are mechanics!' But as limits on knowledge, skills, and experience may intercede with the quest for positive change, restricted access to funding is almost sure to do so.

 

In parallel, not all purchase offers are welcome.  Owners are regularly disappointed when an anticipated offer (e.g., developer) does not adequately reflect the value that they so clearly see.

 

Entrepreneurialize Opportunity provides answers to a variety of these situations!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Investors

 

With business or property as 'the medium' and growth or development solution as 'the product',  Entrepreneurialize Opportunity Corp. has found that it must often fuel these initiatives.

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There was a time when traditional bankers stood at the ready.  However, as oversight and policy shifts took effect, reflecting new, central bank-imposed rule changes, this is no longer the case.  Commercial loan options are far more restrictive. 

 

The 'friendly business banker' is no longer.  This is notably true for all Small to Mid-sized enterprises ("SMEs") and private property holders that, amid economic hardship, find themselves unable to 'harness' the opportunity that seemed implicit.  The same is true for real-property projects, for which financing resources are all the harder to come by. 

 

Entrepreneurialize Opportunity seeks to mitigate risk, ensuring that every project is strategically sound and, thus, financially compelling.  While household net worth (before the Coronavirus) generally re-surged over the last few years, lessons abound (e.g., market volatility and vulnerability).  Therefore, today's investors are more cautious, as should be expected.

 

 

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Advisors

 

"No man is an island!"*  Accepting this as a valid premise, Entrepreneurialize Opportunity relies on those who would generally be its 'rivals' to become its allies instead.  Not only does it seek counsel with each opportunity, engaging a mix of creative, technical and professional services to provide valued input, but it also forms a coordinating hub for every project, assuming its adopted developer role.  Therefore, it is a resource for all.

 

In this capacity, Entrepreneurialize Opportunity represents a source for entrepreneurial solutions (growth) and financial remedy.  It is particularly advantageous when potential is inherent but the 'wherewithal' to realize that potential is not.  

 

Entrepreneurialize seeks to collaborate.  It recognizes that most projects require a full range of expertise.  Adding to its unique brand of entrepreneurship, its mandate is to assemble and bring to bear all that is necessary.  Presenting this approach quite effectively is the Harvard professor's definition:

 

"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled."

 

As demonstrated by the examples presented throughout this website, this definition is readily accepted.  The core principle is fundamental to arriving at a problem's solution: a product, service, market or investment structure.  Furthermore, it sets the stage for Entrepreneurialize Opportunity Corp. – which is results-driven, albeit wholly reliant on its aggregate 'Advisor' skill set.

 

 

 

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