IDE members have "Group Buying Power" because a group of investors gets better terms than one investor.

DISCLOSURES

Up until now individual investors had to rely on the Company they were investing in, to provide disclosure on: use of proceeds, profit projections, competition, profit modeling platform, potential market penetration, and so on.

It is human nature that these projections are overly optimistic because they come from Company principals, who believe in the Company's prospects or they wouldn't have started the Company principals, who believe in the Company's prospects or they wouldn't have started the Company. They may be completely honest, but their enthusiasm has caused every business plan we have ever reviewed to overstate potential profits, and understate potential expenses, presenting a false image to investors.

A Company's potential profits and potential expenses, and how much investment money it will take for the company to become 'net profitable' cannot be done by the principles of that company, who may be operating on a 'build it and they will come' false assumption inherent in their business plan.

The business world is full of examples of Company's that are successful with an inferior product. There are very few examples of Company's that are successful based on word of mouth on even a superior product.

The success of the Company is the primary goal of the IDE investing membership because if the Company's fail, the investors lose their money. The determination of the odds of that success depends on a clear-eyed evaluation, not just for the investors, but for the benefit of the principles of the Companies as well.

This can only be done through independent valuations leading to an Audited Business Plan.

MARKETING STUDIES

Marketing studies done by a specialist firm under a non-circumvention and no disclosure agreement can determine the size of the market, the advertising need to penetrate that market and much more.

In short a marketing study can objectively determine what the potential gross sales of a Company may be.

INFRASTRUCTURE STUDIES

Infrastructure studies done by specialist firms forecasts the Company's personnel needs and expenses, it's equipment needs and expenses, and it's manufacturing costs.

In short an infrastructure study can objectively determine what the potential gross expenses of a Company may be.

The marketing studies combine with the infrastructure studies to objectively determine how much investment money is necessary for a Company to succeed. This amount of money is called an 'Investment Valuation'.

AUDITED BUSINES PLAN

This is an independent report that combines the marketing and infrastructure studies, estimated time lines, guarantees on terms that reward investors proportionately to risk, provisions that provided for investor oversight on the use of their funds, and a provision that provides for a change of management teams IF, and only IF, the current management team of the Company utterly fails to achieve the development of that Company, after the marketing and infrastructure studies project the success of the Company.

GROUP BUYING POWER

No one investor can exercise the terms and conditions noted on this page. Obtaining these terms can only be done through the group buying power inherent in a large number of investors working toward a common goal...making money through actively managed risk investing.