Bangkok Business Umbrella Group (BBUG) Launches in ASEAN.

WIRRAL, U.K. - June 15, 2013 - PRLog -- Dr John Clarke founder of BBUG tells us why Bangkok and why the Asian economic community needs Venture Capitalists and Business incubation:

"Thailand is ideally placed to become the business hub of South East Asia, and with tourism expected to grow to over 23 million in 2014 up from 15 million in 2012 and considering the current government's attitude towards business Investment and infrastructure in Thailand and its planned strategy towards giving assistance to business. I feel Bangkok will take over from Singapore sooner rather than later. That is if and only if; the resources available are distributed across all businesses including foreign ones with a Thai base"

BBUG: http://bbug.org  is a Venture capital company bringing Angel Investors and micro and SME businesses together in a dynamic cooperative to foster profitable growth in the ASEAN arena.

Universally there has always been a need for non-loan finance, many an exciting business idea needs cash to take it to market, yet few business owners have the cash flow to invest. Historically it was a challenge to find an Angel Investor, now however, due to today's technology, there are many millions of investors who can take part in the growth potential of a great business idea and make a profit. Finding capital Investment is not so much the challenge now; the challenge comes in the form of making the business clear and concise enough for Investors to understand. Far too many businesses who are looking for investment fall down at the basic business plan stage, and then the due diligence stage, it's not enough just to have a good idea and some good staff.

Capital Venture companies sit between Angel Investors and the business requiring investment, and create a business incubation process for greater collaboration; they train the business to become more attractive to the Investor and take an equity share in the business rather than a loan, and after initial seed investment, the Investors can see how their businesses are being taken care of through the incubation process right through to an exit strategy. It's a win -win for all concerned."

Dr John Clarke, has been Involved in business Investment for over 30 years, starting in Scotland where he was involved in New markets including the financing of charter airlines in the newly de-regulated environment in the UK , to cotton mills in the 80's and dot coms in the 90's right through to today's multi-faceted start-ups. "The strategy is much the same as it was back then," He told us “However the tools are different today, it's easier to find investors, but as I said harder for the start-ups that needs investment to position themselves to be attractive and easy for investors to see the potential quickly. We felt that too many business fail even after investment, especially after gaining bank loan funding which is not investment, just a needless appendage to the bottom line making it almost inevitable that a fledgling business will die."

Being a part of the companies through an equity stake, makes us responsible right through the life of that company for good governance, so we needed to inspire the right business arena to maximise the growth potential so we looked to Business incubation.

We: as the VC Company in Thailand and ASEAN are in a great position to help both Investor and the client company and create transparent incubator environments where the Investor can see businesses are growing, and they can share in their success. The start-up or SME can also feel part of an overall co-operative with access to full office services, legal and accounting facilities, research and development, and the mentorship of experienced professional consultants on a daily basis in our business incubator, where we all have one goal in mind and that's the success of each business