Starting your own business is never easy. The hardest thing is to come up with a completely new idea and find a market for it. There are other instances of course, where an entrepreneur can take up an already existing idea and make it different or take it one step further. Either way, a business ...

“The benefits of investing in Africa are beginning to outweigh the risks. At a time when growth is stalling in America, Europe and Japan, and some of the major emerging markets are slowing down, Africa presents compelling, yet selective, sector investment opportunities.” 

In the past, Africa has been seen as a continent with no financial ...

China’s enormous consumer base, expanding economy and FDI-friendly policies are luring foreign businesses into plethora of promising opportunities. The success of an investment or alliance, however, often depends on the observation of some unwritten rules. Find out which are the soft aspects companies are to bear in mind before setting foot on China according ...

Naturally, entrepreneurs who have put their hearts, minds and souls into developing a business idea are reluctant to share their venture with others. However, equity investment might be the only way to materialize your business plans. Since owing 100% of nothing is a way less than having a smaller bit of a successfully running company ...

Interested in investing in Africa? While South Africa has been continuously attracting media and investment attention, the business community seems to be neglecting other promising investment destinations within the continent.

With the current article we’d like to highlight an African emerging market that is becoming one of the fastest growing world economies, Ethiopia.

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Providing relevant information that will help our customers to better protect themselves from investment-related risks is one of Merar’s priority tasks. In our blog archive you can find plenty of articles on the scam threads entrepreneurs are facing when looking for funding. Since investors who seek opportunities are also objects of scam attacks and ...

We often deliberate on the internal business climate and the ample opportunities the Chinese market offers to foreign investors. But it’s worth turning the perspective the other way round and analysing the behaviour of the world’s second biggest economy as an investor itself.

In 2010, after three decades of extraordinary growth, China surpassed ...

Some of you might remember, back in November 2011, we had an investment project posted on Merar, dealing with Facebook shares acquisition. An ex-member of their company, paid predominantly in shares rather than paychecks, has decided to open his own firm, through which he sold Facebook shares. The amount he was asking for was $57 ...

As a host of this year’s Olympic Games London was the world’s hottest spot over the last month. Being in charge of such an important and massive event that brings together athletes, visitors, politicians and media from all parts of the world is definitely a prestigious role a city should be proud of ...

At the end of the day entrepreneurs and investors want one and the same thing – establishing a stable and beneficial partnership. However, it appears that they tend to focus on their own side of the coin and oversee the demands of the other party.

Two years ago we developed a structured project submission form as ...