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Merar Invites Its Members to the 2nd Offshore Wind Supply Chain Conference

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Merar Invites Its Members to the 2nd Offshore Wind Supply Chain Conference

Discussing various ways to create a greater value to our members we at Merar decided to introduce the new practice of keeping you regularly updated on business-related events and initiatives that may help you meet investors and partners or find out more about the trends and best practices in your industry.

Despite being an online ...

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With a Major Change Merar Undertakes Further Steps for the Improvement of the Project Quality and the Investment Talk

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With a Major Change Merar Undertakes Further Steps for the Improvement of the Project Quality and the Investment Talk

Slightly more than a year after its formal launch Merar hits the best upgrade any investment network site would like to have. By making the contact establishment the core paid service on the network we are significantly improving its quality, reliability and trustfulness.

As from today (18 November 2011) Merar is changing its business model ...

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Merar.com May Raise Equity to Finance Expansion (Merger Market Article)

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Merar.com May Raise Equity to Finance Expansion (Merger Market Article)

This is a copy of an article released in November 2011.

Merar.com, an online platform connecting entrepreneurs and investors, may need additional equity to finance the planned geographic expansion and to pay for the launch of new services, according to Managing Director Petko Karamotchev.

A start-up launched in October 2010 with the seed funding ...

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‘1000 Active Projects’ Milestone Hit, Merar Member Profile Redesigned to Answer User Feedback

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‘1000 Active Projects’ Milestone Hit, Merar Member Profile Redesigned to Answer User Feedback

We are extremely happy and excited to inform you that 1,000 businesses already shared their investment projects on Merar. The team worked very hard to make this happen. We would also like to thank all of our members and supporters.

Guys, we would like to keep seeing you on https://www.merar.com

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7 Steps of How to Protect Yourself from Fraudulent Investors and Internet Scam

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7 Steps of How to Protect Yourself from Fraudulent Investors and Internet Scam

Protect yourself from fraud! Don't let the scammers take you for a ride! Image courtesy of Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier.

At Merar we received numerous emails and calls, containing questions like “Is Investor X legitimate?” or “Investor Y wants me to pay money beforehand. What should I do? Should I pay?” We wanted to address ...

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Deloitte VC Industry Survey Supports Merar’s Choice of Geographical Focus (Part 2)

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Research findings confirm that Merar is strategically positioned to offer attractive opportunities to investors. In stark contrast to the gloomy sentiment of western VC firms, investors in the rapidly growing emerging economies of Asia and Latin America are markedly optimistic about their markets, according to the 2010 Global Venture Capital Survey of Deloitte and NVCA ...

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Deloitte VC Industry Survey Supports Merar’s Smart Choice of Geographical Focus (Part 1)

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Doing business in emerging markets is no longer just an option. It is a must, given the lackluster expectations of western VC firms about growth in their home markets. Merar, with its emerging-market focus, is serving this wave of investor interest that will keep washing around the world in the coming decades.

The 2010 Global ...

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Relaunch: Merar Redesigned for 2011

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Merar begins Spring 2011 with a new design. Find out what has changed and why we have decided to upgrade our investment platfrom.

The new Merar is here! 

We launched Merar in October 2010 (the soft launch was made in June same year) with what we thought, the ambitious idea to become the Investment Network ...

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Investments in Emerging Markets are Increasingly Driven by Inflationary Fears in the US

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After the pull comes the push - at least as far as emerging market investments are concerned. The "pull force" is the attractiveness of emerging market opportunities for investors, while the increasingly important "push force" is the Federal Reserve's monetary policy which is pushing US money out of the country. The Fed's second round ...

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What do Merar, Linked-In and the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics have in common?

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The answer is all three present solutions for reducing friction in the search for information.

The Nobel Prize was awarded earlier in October for research on why unoccupied jobs exist even when there are unemployed people. To a large extent this boils down to the high cost of gathering information on available jobs. (The Economist ...

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