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Make Money Online Investing in Businesses

written by Michael Kwan on May 11, 2012

The Big Idea Mastermind

If you’ve ever watched a show like Dragons Den or Shark Tank, then you would have seen a brief glimpse into the world of venture capitalism. Many entrepreneurs view the show from the perspective of the business owners, but have you ever wanted to sit in the seats of the Dragons and Sharks instead? What if you could make a steady flow of income that way.

Offering an alternative to investments like the stock market is Uinvest. As we make our way through today’s review, we’ll have a look at how Uinvest is structured, how you can invest in a wide range of businesses, and whether or not you can turn a signficant profit by helping these companies along.

What Is Uinvest?

The main idea behind Uinvest is that you are provided with a platform where you can invest in a range of businesses and, in exchange for your capital investment, you get a share of the profits that the company is then able to generate.

This is a simple way to invest money online, because it only takes a few minutes to create your account and then you can fund it, allocating the money to investment projects that pique your interest. To confirm your ownership of the shares, you will receive shares certificates through regular postal mail. The certificate is protected by a hologram sticker and sealed by the Uinvest director.

How Does It Work?

The best way to understand Uinvest is to watch the video presentation that they have posted on the site.

In short, you browse through the businesses on the site that are offering shares, have a look at the current price of a share, and gauge the monthly return on each share to see if you’d like to invest in that business. After you choose to buy your shares, you start earning a portion of the profits.

When you have earned back the amount of your original principal, that’s when you start turning a profit on your investment. It is only at this point that Uinvest takes a 10% commission on the profits that you earn; they don’t take a cut until you’ve earned back your original investment.

What Businesses Are for Sale?

You can learn more about the businesses after you’ve created an account, but in the meantime, you can see that there are various projects that are seeking funding from investors like you.

By and large, the projects are for infrastructure or brick-and-mortar type businesses, including a chocolate factory, a hotel and entertainment complex, a motor plant, a pasta factory, a restaurant, a casino, a fish cannery, and even gas stations. The price per share ranges considerably, getting as low as about $27 per share and as high as $4,200 per share. The monthly earnings per share is correspondingly higher, of course.

You’ll also notice that each offering has a limited number of shares available. If you can’t decide where you want to invest your money, there is also the Global Uinvest Network, which is currently priced at $1,750 per share.

Why Ukraine?

You may have noticed that Uinvest has a Ukraine-based TLD. While it may have been more desirable to get the simpler and more universal .com domain, Uinvest was created to help people invest in Ukraine and Europe. They feel it is an “opportunity to benefit from a dynamic region with vast natural resources, a friendly business environment and rich intellectual capital.”

Do You Want to Make Money?

As with all other kinds of investments, investing your money in Uinvest projects is going to carry a certain level of risk. It’s quite possible that you’re going to lose money in these transactions, but you could just as easily earn a steady flow of profit through these ventures too. Uinvest says that it carefully reviews each prospective business, screening them for legitimacy and profitability. That pre-screening helps, but the investment decision ultimately lies with you.

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{ 13 comments }

Shaun May 11, 2012 at 6:02 pm

What are the requirements for investors? Are there any kind of regulations as far as who can invest? Is everything independently audited?

David May 11, 2012 at 9:49 pm

Has the author of this article invested in Univest? What are the companies he has invested in? What are his losses? How has has he possibly been investing in this opportunity? Mr Chow, have you taken advantage of thsi opportunity? If so, what is your record of profit and/or loss?

Lovenus Goh May 11, 2012 at 11:23 pm

Seems interesting. I wonder if there is any minimum investment?

David May 12, 2012 at 5:24 am

Investment ‘safety’ is of primary concern. How would a company in the Ukraine be regulated by the US regulatory agencies?

How much per investment dollar does Uinvest keep for itself?

Thanks in advance for your reply Michael.

faisal May 12, 2012 at 5:42 am

unique business indeed, but how well will it work.

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kash May 13, 2012 at 12:44 pm

Seems very interesting. I have few questions though (have not checked the video yet):

1. How secure will be the investments? What are chances of loss? What if the business defaults?

2. What is the ROI and payment mode?

3. Any verifiable testimonials of people who have already invested?

toto May 14, 2012 at 3:12 pm

look at the examples ROI of more than 100% a year : yeah ok… very legit..

David May 14, 2012 at 7:53 pm

Re Toto:
Looks like some companies return over 10% per month. This looks too good to be true.

David

Mathias June 4, 2012 at 6:02 am

Because it is a ponzi

tan lee May 19, 2012 at 1:04 pm

how much i need to invest or is there is any minimum investment?

European Investment Company May 22, 2012 at 3:52 am

Hi,

I can confirm that company is paying, shares and dividends are great. I like 24 hour support and mostly my income is every month higher !

Today I just made withdraw of 1300,00 USD !

Minimum investment is the cheapest share from ELEVATOR company, 23 USD. Dividends are from 10-24% per month, what is really great ! ;)

Thank you Uinvest !

Tim Soulo May 26, 2012 at 9:40 am

Hey, I’m from Ukraine and I can confirm that we’re a country “with vast natural resources, a friendly business environment and rich intellectual capital” :)

Though the Uinvest site won’t let me in:

“Your IP range is blocked due to DDOS activity.”

That’s just hilarious :)

Though I’m quite interesting in investing a bit of my money to try this thing out.

Tim