Today, we want to hear from you!  Specifically, we would like to know more about your current private investments and your plans for investing in the future.

A few weeks back here at the Deal Report, we talked about the importance of a diversified private portfolio. We know that most of our readers currently have only one or two private investments. For some people, that is sufficient – they have a specific interest in the one company they invested in but that is it. For those who intend to become active private investors, it is just as important to diversify your private investments as it is to have a variety of public investments.

Why private? Because private is the future of investing. The stock market is shrinking as old companies get bought out by larger firms or go private and new companies delay their IPOs or never go public at all.

Since the peak in 1996, the number of domestic companies on America’s stock markets has declined by almost half. That’s why exchanges have engaged in risky experiments like accepting Chinese listings with inadequate disclosure practices – they need listings to survive, and those listings are not coming from US companies.

What that means is that investors must look to the private markets.

For most of those years, private opportunities were available only to the wealthy and the connected. Private Equity firms like Carlyle Group and KKR & Company have made billions of dollars for their already-wealthy investors by investing in private companies. Venture Capital firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz have made billions more from startups. The Facebooks, LinkedIns, and Nests of the world were unavailable to ordinary investors looking to diversify away from the shrinking stock market.

That has changed now. Seven years after the JOBS Act and its regulations freed private companies to seek capital from everyday investors, we now see a maturing private investing infrastructure an a wide variety of deals from which to choose. In fact, there were more Regulation A deals filed last year than IPOs!

As someone who has already invested in at least one private deal, you are in the vanguard of a growing industry. At Deal Report, we’d like to know more about your plans for future private investments. We ask that you email us the answers to the following questions.

• How many private deals have you invested in so far?  Are you willing to share the names?
• How was the investing experience? Do you still feel good about the company you invested in?
• What percent of your total investments are private?
• What is your goal percentage for private investments? How many private investments do you hope to make over the next 36 months?
• Do you have a preference among Regulation CF, Regulation A+, and Regulation D deals? Do you have any industries you are currently focusing on?
• What are the most important aspects of a company you want to invest in?
• What resources do you have available to research potential private investments?
• Are you willing to answer follow-up questions from the Deal Report Team?

Please send your answers to info@dealreport.com. We will keep your answers strictly confidential and your participation will help us shape Deal Report to be most useful to you.

Thank you.

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For most of those years, private opportunities were available only to the wealthy and the connected. Private Equity firms like Carlyle Group and KKR & Company have made billions of dollars for their already-wealthy investors by investing in private companies. Venture Capital firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz have made billions more from startups. The Facebooks, LinkedIns, and Nests of the world were unavailable to ordinary investors looking to diversify away from the shrinking stock market.

That has changed now. Seven years after the JOBS Act and its regulations freed private companies to seek capital from everyday investors, we now see a maturing private investing infrastructure an a wide variety of deals from which to choose. In fact, there were more Regulation A deals filed last year than IPOs!

As someone who has already invested in at least one private deal, you are in the vanguard of a growing industry. At Deal Report, we’d like to know more about your plans for future private investments. We ask that you email us the answers to the following questions.

• How many private deals have you invested in so far?  Are you willing to share the names?
• How was the investing experience? Do you still feel good about the company you invested in?
• What percent of your total investments are private?
• What is your goal percentage for private investments? How many private investments do you hope to make over the next 36 months?
• Do you have a preference among Regulation CF, Regulation A+, and Regulation D deals? Do you have any industries you are currently focusing on?
• What are the most important aspects of a company you want to invest in?
• What resources do you have available to research potential private investments?
• Are you willing to answer follow-up questions from the Deal Report Team?

Please send your answers to info@dealreport.com. We will keep your answers strictly confidential and your participation will help us shape Deal Report to be more useful to you.

Thank you.