If you can find seed investors, angel investors who really believe you, there is not a better situation.
The first is that students and their families still lack sufficient data to estimate long-term returns for specific college degrees the way investors do with stocks and bonds.
" In response, the Kazakh government has worked at a frantic pace to push through reforms to reinvigorate the economy by wooing western investors.
It is considered to be one of the boldest moves by the Chinese government to liberalize its equity markets where, until now, foreign investors have been largely shut out.
(It said it couldn't name the investors due to a confidentiality agreement.
At first its efforts — which involve printing a lot of money and, even more important, trying to assure investors that it will keep printing money until inflation reaches 2 percent — seemed to be going well.
But Dan MacCombie, a co-founder of Runa, a Brooklyn-based beverage company, said the need to reassure investors of one's commitment can complicate the health picture.
As investors fixate on the global forces whipsawing the markets, one fundamental measure of stock-market value, the price/earnings ratio, is shrinking in size and importance.
So who will pay for the expenses when it comes time to impress the media, investors and clients?
How few 'investors' have that opportunity?
"By contrast," van der Hoeven said, "where there is a record of policy incoherence, confusing signals or stop-and-go policy cycles, investors end up paying more for their investment, consumers pays more for their energy, and some projects that are needed simply will not go ahead.
But it also reflects a rally in the dollar that has gained momentum in recent weeks as the US Federal Reserve nears the end of its quantitative easing programme and investors look to the prospect of US interest rates rising in 2015.
Alibaba executives have defended a controversial deal to split off its payments arm, as investors expressed their concerns about corporate governance at the Chinese internet behemoth's fundraising roadshow.
Try the World has raised $700,000 in seed funding from angel investors to expand its offerings and invest in marketing.
This will give foreign investors the same level playing field and greater space for development, just like their Chinese counterparts.
The Stanford-StartX fund does not invest in every company accepted into the StartX program, but any company that gets 30% of its capital from institutional investors is guaranteed a cash infusion from the StartX fund.
The Shipyards project, funded by hundreds of wealthy Chinese investors, aims to change that.
Millions of amateur investors kke you have to rely on a dizzying array of financial newspapers,magazines and commentators to get investment information.
" But Bew thinks that China will remain attractive for foreign investors.
"This may result in a squeeze of investment if some investors lose confidence in Yu'ebao," he added.