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New Economy in Hungary: Over the past year, there has been an upsurge in venture capital investments in the information technology sector in Hungary and in Europe .There has been a recent explosion of venture capital investments in the IT sector in Hungary and Europe. This article discusses the main challenges facing high-tech companies...; Tags: Investment, Deloitte & Touche, Hungary, venture capital, Europe, information technology; White papers
Policy Towards Private Equity and Venture Capital: In both the US and the UK, the development of the venture capital industry has been accelerated by top-down initiatives from national governments. Within the European Union, the Commission has also made strenuous efforts to enable local private equity markets to grow. In Poland, however, the government's efforts on behalf...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Poland, private equity, venture capital, government, commission, strategy; White papers
Innovative Fort Lauderdale, FL Technology Start-Up Receives Millions In Venture Capital: When technology pioneers, George Teixeira and Ziya Aral invented a technology that would meet market demand, they knew they needed to move quickly. Businesses need a lot of computer storage capacity. While technology manufacturers were concentrating on producing expensive hardware to do the job, Ziya and George, executives at a...; Tags: Manufacturing, venture capital, hardware, storage, job, PC, computer, software; Case studies
Enticing New Employees With Corporate Stability: Employment is on the rise and with it, the return to attractive compensation packages and salary levels. After several down years in the employment market that was the result of the normalization of an inflated stock market and the beginning of the War on Terror, employers are constructing compensation packages...; Tags: Benefits, Investment, compensation, dot-com, stock market, venture capital, job, stock, environment, performance; White papers
Why BC: The BC Technology Advantage: This presentation introduces you to some of British Columbia's competitive advantages: low costs, a welcoming business climate, a gateway location, a skilled talent pool and an enviable quality of life. The slides include overviews of British Columbia's competitive tax rates (personal & business), R&D tax credits, immigration programs, venture...; Tags: Leading Edge British Columbia, British Columbia, competitive advantage, talent, venture capital, R&D, tax; Presentations

The Venture Capital Industry - An Overview: Venture capital is money provided by professionals who invest alongside management in young, rapidly growing companies that have the potential to develop into significant economic contributors. Venture capital is an important source of equity for start-up companies. Professionally managed venture capital firms generally are private partnerships or closely-held corporations funded...; Tags: Investment, National Venture Capital Association, venture capital, pension fund, equity, partnership; White papers
Ten Ways Start-Ups Use Venture Leases and Loans to Generate Millions: The rise of venture leasing and lending has created an opportunity for sophisticated entrepreneurs to gain a competitive advantage. Savvy entrepreneurs are using venture leases and loans to generate millions of dollars for shareholders by leveraging existing venture capital. They have discovered ways to use this flexible financing as a...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial accounting, entrepreneur, financing, competitive advantage, venture capital, equity, shareholder, tool; White papers
Insight Venture Partners: Venture Capital Firm Boosts Productivity of Remote Work Force With Hosted Solution: A leading venture capital firm, New York City-based Insight Venture Partners manages approximately U.S. Insight Venture Partners needed to upgrade a 10-year-old messaging system whose decreasing reliability and availability were having a negative impact on employee productivity. Rather than deploying a new messaging infrastructure in-house, the firm chose partner Intermedia.NET...; Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Corp., messaging, venture-capital company, venture capital; Case studies
Building a Relationship - The Key to Raising Venture Capital: Some advisers believe that the marketing model best explains raising venture capital. This model simply applies the marketing principles of the 4 Ps (Product, Promotion, Place, and Price) to the sale of equity. The marketing model, however, is really most useful in explaining the venture capital process and its dynamic...; Tags: Investment, Marketing research, venture capital, marketing, advisor, equity; White papers
SCORE Helps Technology Entrepreneur Make The Grade: Akian had no experience in the education market. And despite what was then a booming market for technology services, any missteps could cost him more than just his dream of entrepreneurship. SCORE's counselor, Joe DeSalvo wanted him to focus on hisarketing agenda, which was different from other approaches to business...; Tags: entrepreneurship, thin client, venture capital, PC, computer; Case studies
How To Get A Second Date With A Venture Capitalist: The demise of venture capital funding has been greatly exaggerated. Far from being dead or even sickly, the market for venture capital is merely back to normal after seeing unprecedented levels of investment during the technology bubble. A business owner looking for money to expand as the economy picks up...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., venture capital, investment, financing; White papers
Huntington National Bank Gains Competitive Advantage Through a Best-in-Class Originations Platform: Huntington National Bank, the primary subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, a $30 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, was seeking to replace its homegrown originations system with a best-in-class solution that would allow greater flexibility, functionality, and scalability. After evaluating systems from several providers, Huntington turned to...; Tags: Financial services, CGI Group Inc., competitive advantage, scalability, bank, strategy; Case studies
Venture Capital and the Czech Republic: The venture capital market in the Czech Republic has expanded in recent years but there are still obstacles thwarting its development. This article discusses venture capital financing issues for entrepreneurs, but it also raises some salient points about attitudes, deal-flow and the stock market, that institutions investing in the Czech...; Tags: Investment, Czech Republic, venture capital, stock market, stock; White papers
A New Strategy for Venture Investors: Hedge: This article briefs about a new theory which could provide investors with an extra edge from investments that prove to be profitable and perhaps take the edge off some of the losing ones. Case law and literature indicate that the strategy is legally sound if the investors who adopt it...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, University of Pennsylvania, investor, strategy, venture capital, theory, stock; White papers
How Venture Leasing Added Millions to a Startup's Equity Value: The term venture leasing describes equipment financing provided by equipment leasing firms to pre-profit, early stage companies funded by venture capital investors. To compensate venture capitalists for the risk they take, they generally receive sizeable equity stakes in the companies they finance. They typically seek investment returns of at least...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, equity stake, equity, venture capital, leasing, IPO, finance; White papers
Venture Capitalists Invest Less in First Quarter: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Investments in start-ups fell 5 percent to $7.1 billion during the first three months of 2008 compared to the year-ago quarter, signaling that venture capitalists may be less willing to open their wallets during a U.S. economic...; Tags: venture capital, clean technology, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, economic downturn, IPO, investment, business model, alternative energy, medical device, San Francisco, green technology, Thomson Reuters Corp., pollution, stock market, biotechnology, U.S., Internet, st; News items 2008-04-19
Fouad ElNaggar: Investing in Transformational Companies: Fouad ElNaggar is a Principal with Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in high-tech start-ups, which have included Netflix, Tivo and Juniper Networks. ElNaggar talks about what kinds of companies he seeks to help and the misconceptions of venture capitalists.; Tags: Investment, venture capital; Videos 2008-04-18
The Founder's Dilemma: The Idea in Brief Most entrepreneurs want to make pots of money and run the show. But Wasserman reveals that it's tough to do both. If you don't figure out which matters most to you, you could...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Noam Wasserman, equity, founder, investor, entrepreneur, board, financial, motivation, CEO, financing, job, decision-making, career; Articles 2008-04-01
Is a Good Face Good for Business?: Facial coding, the idea that your expression gives away what you are really thinking, was put forth some 40 years ago by psychologist Paul Ekman . But does it work in business? Can you tell what CEOs really think, just by looking, or are they so carefully trained that...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Paul Ekman; Blog posts 2008-02-26
You Pick, I Review: Harvard Business School Press sent me its Spring 2008 catalog. Tell me what you'd like to see reviewed. Books on the way include: Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures -- and Yours, by Tarun Khanna ...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2008-01-09