Capital Chaos

I recently came across a posting by Susan Schreter who went through a valuable Q&A as to what investors are not looking for today in an effort to provide greater insight into those starting out on the path to raising capital.
Q: I am currently preparing my business plan for an online service. It’s a great […]

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As we reported back in December, the end of the year MoneyTree report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association was going to be critical in helping to understand what we may expect for 2008.  Venture capital investments in U.S. startups climbed to a six-year high of $29.4 billion in 2007, raising hope that additional money should […]

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 I am always skeptical of posting forecasted “trends” as sometimes they end up becomming self fulfilling prophecies but American Venture Magazine  just posted some insight with the help of the National Venture Capital Association and looked into their crystal ball to come up with the following:
Venture capitalists are forecasting an active year for the industry with […]

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Even with a very unstable year, 2007 ended on a high note. Dow Jones VentureSource released its fourth Quarterly U.S. Liquidity Report which showed that that U.S. venture capitalists garnered nearly $16.2 billion in liquidity from the sale of 106 venture-backed companies and more than $2 billion from the initial public offerings (IPOs) of 26 […]

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