But he said you know Nempo...

The amount of money you get.

What we now know is that the founders need to run what's called the customer development team.

This is a full time engagement with these teams.

So think of yourself as almost their venture investor.

Investment

Malibu Equity and Investments.

Well their intention was to take these home equity loans and put that money to work, invest it in some way.

Technical consultant

He valued what we already had at 5 million dollars.

They're valuing these assets at 1 million.

Investing in professional development is not a cost.

As investors flee

Investing.

Well number 1 is you could post it to the forums, and we'll select the best presentations and put them on Steve's blog.

life's hard realities, in a certain sense.

You're not my royal consort.

Malibu Equity and Investments. Roger Van Zant.

And I'll show you why that matters in a second.

Big investors.

Investment in what?

Now, who are they accountable to?

So I'm essentially doing some major home improvements.

These are the trends that are taking place.

Where's the brain trust that's in error here?

Let me put that.

Just Manic Enough.

Consider it a capital investment.

I want investment.

I was wondering, a) what's it like being an investment banker, and b) would you write me a recommendation?

We field the first half team in a league that insists on keeping score until the end of the game.

Did you know that 40 percent of the wealth created in Africa is not invested here in Africa?

And this is the important thing.

I just took the total NAV and I divided it by the shares.

So you can imagine, this is the actual amount of cash that

This is the total actual value.

Now how does that work out?

After a leader completes his training and is about to take over the store, we blindfold him, we surround him with the stakeholders, the customer, his family, his team, his boss.

We said before any of this stuff on the top existed, the pre money valuation of just our idea was 5 million.

And so with patient capital from Acumen and other organizations,

They look good.

By the way before we go forward, this is one point I want to mention.

EBlT in this case would be the operating profit plus this investment income.

(Laughter) Here's some advice from one of the largest investors in the United States.

He invested his money in stocks.