You profession and level of legal and financial sophistication.

I found that any company with an overhead, actual physical commercial space and had permanent employees on their payroll were much higher.When I first started, I wanted to go with a company because I believed there would be more professionalism, accountability, better quality of work, etc.

Sophisticated investors don't invest in "great deals", they are offered those all the time.

Truth is, there's no way to guarantee that what you are pulling is going to actually be that 50+% or better, depending on the timing and sophistication of previous financing.

People who search for the most sophisticated sounding (and pretentious) way they can think of to describe something trip me out.

Jeremy Roll’s Cash Flow and his Business and RE Investors meetings attracted the most sophisticated and interesting investors around.

This is an oversimplification for illustration purposes & estate planning may require a more sophisticated structure according to your situation.

Discussion of them serves two purposes, 1. it sounds impressive and sophisticated, 2. it mollifies nervous nelly types into taking action, at least enough action to buy their course.

Some of the people will be as mom and pop as you can get and some are very sophisticated.

It seemed so sophisticated yet obvious once explained.