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About Kevin Bousquet
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I am risk consultant in the field of venture capital. I can answer questions on business start up, dealing with Venture Capital Consultants and the risks involved, due diligence and the due diligence check list, corporate research, reorganizing bad debt, dealing with creditors, raising private capital, factoring and collection issues.

If you are concerned about the risks of dealing with a Venture Capital firm or a Venture Capital Broker feel free to contact me.

I have a large cleint list of Venture Capital firms who retain me to consult on assessing the risks in investing in individuals or private companies seeking capital.

Experience

Education/Credentials
Law Enf Grad (honours)1986, Law/Legal Admin 1991, Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), English, French, Japanese. Owner Corpa Investigation www.corpa.com since 1991. Advisory Member - Canadian Venture Capital Association.

During the Internet "dot com boom" my venture capital company, "Capital Unlimited" consulted with VC firms and those seeking capital across the globe. I assisted companies (primarly new start ups) in ways to raise capital safely when the banks had turned them down.

I assisted with business plans, incorporations, press releases, financing proposals, private placement memos, invoice factoring, collection issues, trademark issues, asset Protection/restructuring & reorganization of bad debt.

During the dot.com internet boom, my Venture Capital company Capital-Unlimited and website was purchased by Andrew J. Filipowski of DivineInterventures the previous owner of Platinum Ventures.

Platinum Ventures was well documented as being famous for the purchase by Computer Associates for 3.6 Billion the largest software transaction in history at the time of the begining of the Internet dot.com boom.

My investigation company was under a consulting contract for due diligence and with the Divine Interventures team.

My 17 year old company, The Corpa Group continues to work in the field of Venture Capital. We get in the middle of business deals to ensure the deal is safe with no surprises. We use the term "investigate before you invest" which can be seen on our site and blog.

The Corpa Group continues to lessen the risk of any business transactions in the field of Venture Captial.

I do not broker capital, invest in companies, nor do I offer investment advice so please don't ask questions in this area.

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Topic: Venture Capital & Stock

Expert: Kevin Bousquet
Date: 5/10/2008
Subject: captail stock vs common stock

Question
i didn't understand if capital stock and common stock is the same or if capital stock only authorizes the issuance of common stock

Answer
Sorry your question got caught in my spam filter "once again" :)

Capital Stock is ownership Common Stock Is not.

I guess the best example I can give is as follows. I own XYZ. I own 100 % of the shares of Capital Stock. If I decided to have a partner I could sell or give 50% of my company away in the form of Capital Stock. So if someone asked my if I owned the company I would say I am a 50% owner.

If however I wanted to raise money privately in my company I could sell Common Stock shares. The price could be at any price I feel like or could be based on my balance sheet or income statement.

So if someone buys $10,000 shares of common stock from me they would get a return by way of a taxable dividen. They are possibly entitled to a vote but they don't have ownwership persay so the really can't tell me how to run the company from me and my partner.

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