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Money Will Out: Venture Capital Stronger Then It Might Seem
Venture capital is one of the pulses of the industry, and so a headline that VC investments are dropping by double digits is enough to catch the eye of anyone involved in the high tech ecosphere. But when you look at more data, things don't look bleak. by Erik Sherman
Tags: Erik Sherman, Dow Jones VentureSource, Dow Jones & Company Inc., investment, venture capital, information technology, VentureBeat
Blog posts 2008-07-21
The State of High Tech Venture Capital: Q&A with Commonwealth Capital's Justin Perreault
Q&A about about industry fads and the need for greater patience with Justin Perreault, a general partner with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on early and growth stage companies. by Erik Sherman
Tags: Venture capital, Strategy, Erik Sherman, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Commonwealth Capital, Web 2.0
Blog posts 2008-07-18
No Exit For VCs
Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
Tags: IPO, Investment, Larry Dignan, Mark Cannice, venture capital
Blog posts 2008-07-09
Venture Capital Isn't as Sick as VCs Want You to Think
At least a few venture capitalists seem to be crying in their cognac about the collapse of the IPO market for venture-backed firms. According to a study by the National Venture Capital Association, leaked first to the New York Times, not a single venture-backed company went public in the...
Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, Dan Ackman, IPO, Paul Kedrosky, venture capital
Blog posts 2008-06-30
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
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
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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, private equity, Poland, venture capital, government, commission, strategy
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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
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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
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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, venture capital, competitive advantage, talent, R&D, tax
Presentations
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
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
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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
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
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
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, venture capital, stock market, dot-com, stock, environment, performance
White papers
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
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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, case law, strategy, venture capital, theory, stock
White papers
Morgan Stanley buys share in NGEN
Morgan Stanley has acquired a minority share in the venture capital firm NGEN Partners, which focuses its investment on companies producing clean technologies. The stake and the amount paid for it were not disclosed. ...
Tags: Morgan Stanley, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, hugo lomax, NGEN Partners
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