There are four main possibilities: the owners of the corporation, owners of capital in general, workers, and consumers.
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Major venture capital shareholders in Kayak were General Catalyst Partners with 27.06% right after the IPO, Sequoia Capital with 16.31%, Accel Partners with 13.99 and Oak Investment Partners with 10.6%.
But if the majority of companies face down rounds, then venture capital-backed companies in general are having trouble.
We plan to use the net proceeds that we receive in this offering for working capital and general corporate purposes, including possible acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses, technologies or other assets.
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The U.S. Embassy is located in the capital, Abu Dhabi, and the consulate general is in Dubai.
In general, capital costs are twice as high as land-based.
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Aguirre says his firing was politically motivated and came after he tried to interview current Morgan Stanley Chief Executive JohnMackJohn Mack in his investigation into insider trading by Pequot Capital in shares of Heller Financial before its acquisition by General Electric in 2001.
In contrast, its competitor General Electric reallocated capital from commodity plays that had paid in the 1970s to new real enterprises like magnetic resonance machine-manufacturing, betting that discretionary income for health care was going to soar with the coming rise in affluence.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement in the capital, Ottawa, after asking Governor-General David Johnston, Queen Elizabeth's II representative in Canada, to dissolve parliament.
Just to remind you (needless I am sure), the current convention is that banks need in general to hold equity capital equivalent to around 10% of their loans.
In this context, Minister Poghosyan underscored the successful impact of the designation of Yerevan as the World Book Capital in 2012 and invited the Director-General to attend the closing celebration on 10-11 December coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the first Armenian printed book in the country.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia claims that Chavez plans to build a seven-story office in La Paz, the Bolivian Capital, to serve as a "general headquarter" to coordinate Venezuela's joint operations in the region with its leftist allies Cuba and Nicaragua.
Suyang Zhang, general partner of IDG Capital Partners in Shanghai, ranked No. 48.
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In Oman, which in 2001 hosted the largest British overseas military exercise in recent history, the defence relationship is so close that a British two-star Major General is stationed permanently in the capital Muscat, to oversee the relationship.
The BBC's James Copnall, in the Ethiopian capital, says there is a general recognition that Mali will not become peaceful again without a democratic transformation, but that for the moment the focus is firmly on finding the money needed by the military force.
Tier 1 general designed to attract human capital in the broadest sense is to be gutted.
The IPO can reward the founders and venture-capital investors, and enables the general public to participate in the company's success.
This is in general much less dilutive than the cost of capital of venture equity.
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In 2006, GM sold 51% interest in General Motors Acceptance Corp. to Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity company.
In general home life is now more complex and capital intensive than optimal and work life is simpler and more labor intensive than optimal.
The following is a guest post written by Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital who has led investments in OpenTable, Zillow and Uber (and many other successful startups).
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Leaders in the capital goods sector, like Deere, Caterpillar and General Electric, saw shares sell off.
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In general, Europe's big social spenders tax capital relatively lightly.
The survey supports this notion, as we have seen highly respected senior marketers like Bill McDonald of Capital One and Beth Comstock of General Electric continue to thrive even in difficult times.
Being able to prove a business concept in a hurry, even if the product isn't perfect, is especially attractive to investors, says Peter Bell, general partner with Highland Capital Partners, a venture firm in Lexington, Mass. that staked Digg, Mapquest and Ask Jeeves.
And this when valuations are in general low compared with the cost of long-term capital.
In general, though, fluidity of labor as well as capital is an economic plus.
We believe LED capital investments will return to solid growth in late 2013-2014, as general lighting applications grow, and VECO should remain a leading supplier of LED process equipment.
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In this context, my administration will offer General Motors adequate working capital over the next 60 days.
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Other competitors in the capital goods sector include: Boeing (BA), General Dynamics (GD), and Elbit Systems Ltd. (ADR) (ESLT).
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