A noteworthy re-post:
I have been seeing a few posts (on my other groups/social networks) looking for investors to join online capital communities for “alternative” investment opportunities. Most of these are really nothing more than themed social networks. The emergence of the online capital community is nothing new. What is new is using technology to sort, classify and match entrepreneurs and investors. The technology enabled matching strategy is the differentiator in the industry and make no mistake, it is a “game changer”. The same “social network” model coupled with matching algorithms is the disruptive technology of today’s capital marketplace. I mean this in the classic economic sense, the pure definition of “disruptive” technology. All the social networking commercial enterprises that have emerged without a mechanism to sort and match investors and entrepreneurs are nothing more than social networks charging membership fees.
Another marker is the experience of the team behind the community. Are they IB’s with a track record, or just internet savvy entrepreneurs with a book on writing business plans? As a former national Broker-Dealer owner, hedge fund co-founder and a successful investor and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years experience, I joined as VP of NuQuest, Inc. a business development, investment and incubator firm. I go back almost 25 years with the CEO, R. K. (Ken) Honeyman, (whom some of you already know) coordinating a group of almost 200 accredited, institutional and professional investors. The current project is a deal flow aggregation tool called The Capital MatchPoint.com wherein investors and capital seekers can aggregate and organize their deals by industry, stage, region, type and amount of capital needed.
Granted this evolution will not be mainstream overnight, but with a churning sea of deals looking for funding, and no methodology for their organized presentation and delivery, most of these sites are just an extension any capital office, where on any given day at any time there could be a line of several entrepreneurs waiting to get that one chance to pitch their deal to me.

As an investor, I prefer the orderly and peaceful flow of deals that are within my interests and filter out the noise generated by others frantically pitching deals that are just plain outside my interests. This is precisely the reason we visualized, built and launched the Capital MatchPoint.com