Advice on how to raise capital for a start up

Shark Tank

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We have 40,000 shares of stock to sell at 42.50 per share with an expected annual return of 11.2 percent per share, and with the upward trend of prices on the industry that could increase.

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Sell me on your start-up... I have deep pockets and money to invest

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How do you attract investors from abroad?

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substantiate the frick out of this:

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an expected annual return of 11.2 percent per share

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Way too many questions to answer this legitimately. Best option for many first time or concept stage entrepreneurs is to pursue money from the three F's. Friends, family, and fools. Essentially the "dumb money" that will ride through the ups and downs with you knowing full well they may not make their investment back.

Well our business is hatching, growing and selling catfish fingerlings to commercial farms for food fish production. I have been doing this my entire life and have the connections and customers to get my own farm and make more money. We would hatch 20 million fish per year and sell 15 million at the end of the growing season. Typically they sell for 90-113k dollars for 1 million fish depending on size.

Overhead costs can run from 700k to 1 million dollars per year depending on feed prices and weather patterns. I already have sales locked down so being able to sell the fish isn't an issue. There is a massive shortage of fish in the industry driving up the prices while feed prices have dropped and are expected to continue to drop on average due to increased soybean production in Brazil.

The farm bill passed this year included a USDA inspection for fish imports that us expected to great reduce imported catfish products and increase demand for domestically raised fish. They also passed a crop insurance program expected to be implemented in a year or two, so that will reduce our chances of failure due to unexpected crop loss.

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The farm bill passed this year included a USDA inspection for fish imports

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There aren't any kind of USDA loan programs for this type of situation?

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If you're serious then post your email or email me

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I believe this is the first IPO I've seen on this board.

Bitco....


I won't say it.

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Would it be worthwhile for them to be involved in multiple levels of the business?

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I tried that but the issue is that the farms who purchase stocker sized fingerlings are mostly located in Alabama and Eastern MS...the water table there is farther down and it's not feasible to get deep artesian well water to run a hatchery and raise your own fingerlings. Here in the delta it's easier to hatch catfish and raise fingerlings due to a much easier water supply. So most food fish farmers here hatch and raise their own fingerlings, and the guys over in East MS and Alabama just buy fingerlings from independent fingerling farmers in the delta.

The issue is that those farmers don't want money tied up into another farm that is an entire state away because they can't watch it. And there only a few large farms over there with that kind of money..the majority of the farms are small family farms. The large corporate farms are in the delta due to the flat landscape being more feasible to construct numerous ponds in one area.

Here is a map to kind of show how the industry is set up. It's from 2001 and a lot has changed since then but it's still basically the same areas, just the acreage goes up and down depending on the economy and such. It's been on a decline since 2008 when the economy went to shite but now it appears we have stabilized and from talking to farmers I know we should have a net growth in acreage this year due to good demand and high prices. I know one farmer who is putting 4000 acres back into production that he took out 2 years ago.