people short unshortable assets in finance all the time by getting the bank or a marketmaker to take the other side in an "over-the-counter" (OTC) agreement.
You just make up the rules and there's a signed document.
i.e. "bets backed up with legal documents".
And... I, for one, would probably take the other side of the bet against Tim Ferris in the short term.
The nice thing about shorting a stock in the open market is that it's easy to peg it to a fall in price.
For a privately held company it's much harder.
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Good luck though, looks like a good start and you just need to do some final polishing
No companies in such position should need to raise that amount money. It's not completely useless, but: you can't hire talented developers with it, you could spend cash with office and 'stuff'... My point is, if you are profitable, raise 20mi, 10mi. 100k won't make much difference.
Maybe you want to work specifically with Ferriss, but the truth is, profitable startups are in high demand (because there are none) and they are the ones choosing partners.
Even if one incorporates in say Delaware, according to (say UK rules) a company is resident where the heart of the company is. And if I, as a director, am physically out of US (or Delaware), how can you claim your company is resident there? Nominee directors?
> - US-based companies, or companies willing to create US-based investable entities (which is easy). Shopify started in Canada, for instance.
The business can be founded anywhere as long as it has a US based entity.
But I wonder, what about those successful startups he advises? Surely, if Uber, Evernote, WordPress, and Shopify are happy with his services, he can bring something to the table?
I'm genuinely curious why all the negativity. Just in case anyone's wondering, I'm not particularly a fan of his either, but I'm open to the possibility he can add value to companies.
But after you inserted your 4 Hour joke here, think about what you have done, that created value in this world?
Tim wrote three NYT Bestsellers and at least two (if not three depending on how you'll measure this) have touched and changed so many lives in a positive way. What have you done?
"What have you done?"
Ask that more often, you will be surprised to learn that mostly every single person actually creates and do things that are important to others in one way or another. Don't diminish people just because their work is not broadly recognized, everyone is important.
And true, but not necessarily depressed people.
