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Is ACN MLM Venture A Scam
In the event you are here looking for information about ACN MLM business and you’re wondering if ACN is a gimmick, then you have come to the right place. So the big question is if ACN MLM is a gimmick? Are the ACN reps that you see all over the place representing something fraudulent that they themselves really do not know much about? By the time you are done looking over this, you should have clear knowledge about ACN and why some folk are calling it a scam.
IS ACN A gimmick? NO
ACN is a Multi-level marketing business that is giving regular individuals like you and I the opportunity to be financially free. The ACN scam allegations are honestly ridiculous. This really is nonetheless not surprising because the MLM industry has taken a poor reputation over the 12 months due to the natural skepticism nature of us human being and also due to the way the network marketers have gone around running their venture. This has had negative effect on the MLM industry over the years. So to emphasize my point again, most MLM businesses including ACN are not scams.
The 1st prove that ACN just isn’t a gimmick is the fact that they are marketing at least one service. You’ll find many companies out there selling the idea of mailing money to someone. Whenever you see this, please perform from it. There is a reason the industry is called Multilevel marketing or Multi Level Marketing. The company has to be marketing at least one product or service. There has to be an exchange of product and service from one party to another. This pretty much throw the ACN scam allegations in to the trash might.
Another prove that ACN just isn’t a scam is the type of services that they are marketing.
Should you are familiar with the corporation, ACN is marketing telecommunication services. They started from long distance services. Now, they market phone services by partnering with the key telecommunication carriers out there. ACN is currently partnering with Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Dish Network, Direct TV etc. In places like Canada and other part of the United States, the Network marketing corporation now market energy by partnering with the major energy carrier in that region due to the energy deregulations. I have a question forr those making the ACN scam allegations. Are Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and the other telecommunication Companies scams? If ACN is a gimmick, would these businesses put their reputation on the line by partnering with ACN?
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How To Start A Joint Venture
Starting a joint venture to make your business more successful isn’t hard. Finding the most suitable partner when you are starting a joint venture can be the most difficult part. Using another company’s resources, mailing lists and capital can offer advantages to you, but you must sell a joint venture partner on the advantages they will gain, as well.
Finding a company that has a complimentary product or service can propel both companies to success. You don’t always have to have a product because you can own exclusive rights to sell one. You don’t always need to have an email or mailing list because you can buy those. You don’t always need to have start-up capital because there are investors willing to put up the money for good ideas and products.
When you are starting a joint venture, you need to give some thought to the most complimentary partner. It should be a joint venture partner that brings something to the table that you need and you should be able to offer them something in return. Starting a joint venture is the easiest when you are able to sell yourself and what you have to offer to a potential joint venture partner. From there, you need a blueprint of how you plan to structure the joint venture and split the profits or share the expenses.
Once you have an idea of potential joint venture partners, you need to approach them with a business plan that spells out how you envision the transaction. Starting a joint venture means that both partners will have input that involves the advantages for making more profit to each of them. Your negotiating and communicating skills should be good in order to make a convincing sales pitch for what you are bringing to the joint venture. Just keep in mind that starting a joint venture is considered one of the leading business marketing tools for the future.
Combining resources with larger and more successful companies can be especially helpful when starting a joint venture. If you can show them how they can share their email lists and advertising resources or technology to make you both more money, it won’t be that hard to convince most people. Your salesmanship, knowledge, action and desire go a long way in starting a joint venture with another successful business, but it is much easier than going it on your own.
Keep in mind that starting a joint venture is based on the principle of small hinges can move large doors. The more leverage you have, the more profits both businesses will make in a joint venture. Even if your partner is another start-up company, you can combine resources to make more money and lower expenses. Other than finding the right partner, it is just a matter of agreeing on the joint venture structure and putting it on paper.
Be sure you have chosen the correct joint venture partner because a bad choice can hurt your company. Once you have sold the idea, negotiated the terms and documented the agreement that is all there is to starting a joint venture partnership besides making the massive profits.
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LED lighting specialist, Lucibel S.A., raised 15 million and registers record year.
Rueil Malmaison, France (PRWEB) December 20, 2013
Lucibel closed its €15 million financing operation, started in March 2013, with an additional contribution of €9 million in bonds, convertible into shares, subscribed by Bpifrance, Aster Capital and CM CIC Capital Innovation.
Out of this financing operation that was finalised on 18th December 2013, Bpifrance, Aster Capital and CM CIC Capital Innovation will have invested €7 million, €3.5 million and €3 million respectively into the Lucibel, the balance of the funds being provided by other investors.
Reference shareholders in the company, Aster Capital and CM-CIC Capital Innovation confirm their will to stand by the company in the long run. Bpifrance came onto the scene with its long-term investment plan, focusing on accompanying growing French businesses and particularly those with high capital needs.
Lucibel offers innovative lighting solutions, based on LED technology, for professionals, municipalities and individual purposes. Founded in 2008 by Frédéric Granotier, the business has grown substantially, through organic development and external growth, such as Cordel company, leader in shop lighting, that Lucibel took over in March 2013. This market consolidation strategy in lighting will continue following new acquisitions coming soon.
This fundraising, which began in March 2013, will finance the development strategy within France and on international scene, within a rapidly expanding LED market.
“We are happy and proud to welcome Bpifrance amongst our financial partners, sign of recognition of Lucibel’s technological expertise and its potential to develop, in France and globally.” stated Frédéric Granotier, founder and president of Lucibel.
Nicolas Dufourcq, Chief Executive Officer of Bpifrance said “Bpifrance invests in French innovation on an international conquest. That’s the spirit in which it has manifested its support to Lucibel.”
Lucibel and Bpifrance have been advised for this operation by law firms Brandford Griffith & Associates and Veil Jourde.
About Bpifrance:
Private equity investments of Bpifrance are operated by Bpifrance Investments, a management company. Bpifrance, subsidiary of France’s Caisse des Dépôts, invest minority stakes directly via generalist or sectorial funds, and indirectly through partner funds, in French businesses, PME, ETI and large corporations.
Bpifrance manages its own funds as well as third-party funds, notably the French state’s through the Programme of Future Investments (PIA). With a network of 42 regional establishments and 250 partner funds, 90 of which being regional, Bpifrance covers the whole of the French territory, sectors of activity, stages of development, from seeding to transmission.
Bpifrance act in market conditions seeking for efficiency levels, liquidity and profitability, allowing to provide traction to private investors. Bpifrance has adopted a long-term responsible investment approach.
More information on : http://www.bpifrance.fr – Follow us on Twitter : @bpifrance
About CM-CIC Capital Innovation:
CM-CIC Capital Innovation specialises in technology venture capital. From seeding, it supports businesses with a high growth potential within dynamic sectors such as IT, health, industrial innovations and even the environment.
CM-CIC Capital Innovation is affiliated with CM-CIC Capital Finance, investment arm and investment bank of the Crédit Mutuel Group – CIC. With €2.6 billion of capital managed, of which €1.9 billion is their own, it is represented across France through 6 major establishments (in Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Strasbourg and Bordeaux), CMC-CIC Capital Finance is one of the rare examples of a merchant bank investing its own money in the long-term.
About Aster Capital:
Aster Capital is the leading actor in venture capital sponsored by Alstom, Schneider Electric, Solvay and the European Investment Fund (through the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme). Specialised in the energy and environment sectors, Aster Capital benefits from a unique model which aims to accompany entrepreneurs by making them benefit from considerable assets from its sponsors, accelerating the development of their businesses’ development. By favouring partnerships with technological or commercial businesses such as Alstom, Solvay and/or Schneider Electric, we help entrepreneurs to expand their businesses. Aster Capital focuses on renewable energies, energy efficiency, eco-mobility, and the safety and long-term management of resources and contaminating emissions. Its teams are based in Paris, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Shanghai and Tokyo.
http://www.aster.com
About Lucibel:
LUCIBEL is a French company offering innovative lighting solutions, combining value and quality lighting for professionals. LUCIBEL develops its LED lighting solution in France and sells them in more than 35 countries. http://www.lucibel.com
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Backend as a Service (BaaS) Market worth $7.7 Billion by 2017 – New Report by MarketsandMarkets
(PRWEB) December 21, 2013
The report “Cloud Backend-as-a-service (BaaS)/ Mobile BaaS (MBaaS) Market – Global Advancements, Business Models, Technology Roadmap, Forecasts & Analysis (2012 – 2017)”, defines and segments in the global Backend as a Service market with analysis and forecasting of the global revenues. It also identifies drivers and restraints for this market with insights on trends, opportunities, and challenges. The global BaaS market is estimated to grow from $ 216.5 million in 2012 to $ 7.7 billion in 2017. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 104% from 2012 to 2017. In the current scenario Entertainment applications segment continues to be largest adaptor for BaaS. In terms of geographies, North America continues to be the biggest market for BaaS.
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MarketsandMarkets has segmented the global BaaS market by types of solutions and end-users. The vertical segment comprises of Entertainment applications, Enterprise applications and other mobile applications; whilst the end-user markets include Enterprise, Small and Medium Business, Small Office Home Office. The vertical segments and end-user markets, along with each of their sub-segments are further bifurcated by geographies. Geographies covered include North America (NA), Europe, Asia-Pacific including Japan (APAC), Middle East & Africa (MEA), and Latin America (LA).
In the recent years, opportunities in the Mobile applications market has grown significantly and Mobile applications have become a thriving business segment in the IT market. The competition in the mobile applications segment has gone intense and the availability of variety of useful mobile applications in the application store has become a key constraint while buying a mobile hand set. With the explosion in the mobile applications, the intense competition in the market and the increasing popularity of the ‘Bring your own device’ culture has created a necessity for faster mobile application development methodologies. Many companies recognized this opportunities and started offering bundled services like server side infrastructure, middleware, ready to integrate features and IDE for mobile application development in the name of ‘Backend as a Service’. BaaS provides a solution to some common pain points that are faced by application developers.
BaaS reduces the complexities of the application development by dealing with the complex server side programming, reducing the redundancy in creating backend code blocks, providing ready to integrate features and template backend. Developers can focus more on the front end of the applications and the marketing activities needed for the application. With BaaS developers can reduce the time needed to develop their applications by 70%. Also BaaS providers are offering flexible benefit plans which keep the initial investment for developing mobile applications minimal.
The major forces driving the market are factors such as rising need for bundled services that will aid the application developers to reduce the complexities and time need for mobile application development and deployment. At the same time, opportunities in venture capital funding will benefit the growth in this market.
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CGTrader.com Presents the New Wonders of the World
Vilnius, Lithuania (PRWEB) December 23, 2013
This time the community-based marketplace focused on professional designers who work in architecture. It was the first architectural challenge on CGTrader – 3D Architecture Challenge. There were two categories, so 3D artists could choose what to create – a design of interior or exterior.
Designers had more than enough motivation. Winners of best exterior and interior categories will get professional software – V-Ray licence from Chaos Group. They will get a large stack of other useful prizes for designing architectural 3D models, including SpaceMouse from 3Dconnexion. The aggregate worth of prizes is $ 23,000. Therefore, they presented their skills with marvelous models.
“CGTrader wanted to challenge 3D modelers working in the field of architecture. We were certain that designers will come up with some brilliant ideas and they proved that we were right. We are really glad that our desire to bring more realistic themes to computer graphics was fulfilled,” says Marius Kalytis, CEO of CGTrader.
Mohammad Yazdi Rad made the best 3D architectural exterior model. It is called “Chaharbagh School”. The author will be awarded with V-Ray license and a set of other valuable prizes. signSTUDIOS became the 1st runner-up for a work called “Realistic Old Ruinous House”. 3D designer Ruslan won the 2nd runner-up title in best exterior category. He made a model called “Gallery”. Both runners-up will be awarded with a solid package of software and hardware for 3D modeling.
The best 3D architectural interior model is “Luxurious Bedroom” by sparrow. The 1st runner-up came up with an idea of minimalist design. Javier Wainstein made a 3D model called “Bedroom Minimalist”. Michal Sekela became the 2nd runner-up and will be awarded for his design “Kitchen Modern”. Winners of this category will get the same prizes as the winners of “The Best 3D Architectural Exterior” category. More information about the best architectural 3D models and prizes is available in the 3D model blog of CGTrader.
About CGTrader.com:
The community-based 3D model marketplace CGTrader was founded in 2011. It has the vision of democratizing the 3D modeling and 3D design market. CGTrader has attracted investors and in early 2013 CGTrader raised 185,000 EUR from venture capital fund Practica Capital. There are more than 45,000 3D models uploaded to the digital library and more than 31,000 registered users, uniting 3D modeling professionals from all around the world.