USING THIS SITE

Ten years ago privateequity.com was launched as a free service to entrepreneurs and others seeking transaction-based contact with Private Equity firms.

Today we are building upon that experience and are launching www.decimalpoint.com as the next step toward the same goal. In addition we are delivering our membership quality investment prospects while reducing the number of mis-matched or SPAM-based communications.

Why use this site over other directories or online sources?

One reason: data quality

We will tell you how recent our data is for a specific decimalpoint.com member BEFORE you pay for the information. In fact, we will tell you if their information is current within 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, or greater than a year old. Even better, we indicate whether our individual members are currently considering new investments. Advantage: You can then decide whether you want to purchase the information. After all, what good is information if it is outdated or plain wrong. This also encourages our members to keep their investment criteria and profile current. Our data is constantly changing as our members update their profiles through our simple online interface. Therefore decimalpoint.com is constantly changing to remain current, our data will not be the same from one quarter to the next.

SITE BASICS

THIS SITE DOES:

1. Provide new query tools for entrepreneurs and others seeking transaction-based contact.
   • Geographical search
   • Advanced, investment-specific searches
   
   
   
2. Enable entrepreneurs and others seeking transaction-based contact to submit a document for consideration by member firms. WE DO NOT DISCLOSE MEMBER FIRM EMAIL ADDRESSES.
   • Upon purchase of Firm Contact Information, you may opt to upload a single file (business plan, white paper, executive summary) to our secure Members Only Facility
     • Please be sure to consolidate all materials you wish to send into one file. Zip files ARE accepted.
       
       
     • Please be sure to include all necessary contact information when uploading your file.
   • All submissions will initiate an email to the designated firm member notifying him or her of the new file.
   
   
   
3. Cost money to use (see fee structure below)
   • Our pricing is structured to encourage serious, legitimate users looking for capital (not marketers) to use our search.
     
     
   • Our service is more expensive that simple mailing lists available for purchase. If you are interested in mass mailing or bulk communications please find another source for your information.

THIS SITE DOES NOT:

1. Deliver any query results in an Microsoft© Excel, comma delimited, or other spreadsheet or list format
   
   
2. Cater to, or serve, mailing list generation, bulk marketers or any other person or service looking to take our membership list for resale or mass communication.
   
   
3. Disclose ANY Member Firm email address
   
   
4. Make it easy to copy our data.
   
   
5. Guarantee data quality, or any response to business plans or other inquiries/submissions by our membership
   • our data is only as good as our members make it. We solicit our membership quarterly to ensure their data is current.
     
     
   • it ultimately falls to our members to 1) enter and 2) maintain accurate profiles. At decimalpoint.com we do not enter any data on behalf of our membership so we can't be held responsible for any erroneous or missing data.

COSTS:

1. Entreprenuers
• Geographic Query (Domestic AND International)
  • Each firm selected for return will result in a fee of $2.00
• Advanced Query
  • Each firm selected for return will result in a fee of $15.00



2. Private Equity Firms
   • Fees are located here.