Manuel A. Henriquez is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Hercules Technology Growth Capital.
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Some provide early stage (seed) capital, while others come in with mezzanine or growth capital.
These challenges included a lack of entrepreneurial support services, growth capital, innovation networking, and academic interactions.
It launched in its current form this past January and the company is looking for growth capital.
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Consider HERCULES TECHNOLOGY GROWTH CAPITAL (HTGC, 12) if you want a piece of the Silicon Valley action.
Entrepreneurs will find growth capital hard to come by as the venture capital industry shrivels under higher taxes.
Hercules Technology Growth Capital (HTGC, 12) and THL Credit (TCRD, 15) all pass my screen and have yields around 8%.
At Peterson Partners, a small growth capital firm, we decided our business was going to be all about the entrepreneurs we backed.
CHF's investors include MPM Capital, Investor Growth Capital and SV Life Sciences.
To clarify, men like Yeager are forced to actually remove growth capital from the banking system in order to sustain their most basic standards of living.
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Key to getting this round of growth capital was landing the Tooele Army Depot as a customer and the months-long due diligence it entailed, he says.
In May 2012, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council released its own cartoon video on YouTube that walked viewers briskly through the inner workings of leveraged buyouts.
Until the formation of the Private Equity Growth Capital Association in 2007, the US private equity industry had not engaged in coordinated lobbying efforts in Washington DC.
Micro-credit has provided billions of dollars in start-up and growth capital to encourage micro-entrepreneurs around the world to launch their own enterprises to lift themselves out of poverty.
David Whileman, head in Britain of 3i Growth Capital, sees the end of the era of cheap debt as an opportunity for those prepared to invest in growth.
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To put it plainly, there are no companies and no jobs without investment first, and policies of dollar weakness have made the U.S. a bad place to commit growth capital over the last ten years.
If interested in raising growth capital in the private markets, they too would face difficult creditors on the way to subpar growth, which would ultimately make government debt in drachma even less attractive in a vicious cycle.
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This requires attention to both sides of the transaction, working to improve our ability to identify, evaluate and grow promising solutions and also increasing the willingness and ability of funders to allocate growth capital based on performance and impact.
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And that is despite the fact that its firms tend to have few overseas profits, are heavily exposed to an economic slowdown, and will find it hard to raise the growth capital they need if interest rates rise sharply.
Allison, quite unlike Republicans, Democrats and a Federal Reserve desperate to resuscitate the housing market, understands that the rush to housing was the recession for excessive growth capital flowing into the dead money sector that was housing over the productive economy.
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The round was led by Europe-based late stage private equity firm Investor Growth Capital, with new investors Goldman Sachs and Accolade Partners (which is a limited partner in venture funds), along with existing investors Northbridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners and Tenaya Capital.
Entrepreneurs and internal managers are constantly evaluating their environments and assessing the growth prospects and their bottom-up evaluations merge up into the financial markets in either higher demand for growth capital (causing higher real interest rates) or lower demand (causing lower ones) for capital.
To finance this important asset, I believe you will need growth equity capital from investors.
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Not to be outdone, Vanguard has announced three so-called "Managed Payout Funds, "--Real Growth, Moderate Growth and Capital Preservation.
On the positive side, Strasser said the company has slowed growth and capital spending internationally, which should help its balance sheet.
But compare it with Wal-Mart, Chung says, which is in a slow-growth, capital-intensive business and trading at 29 times free cash flow.
Here the object is not to shelter past growth from capital gains, but to pass assets--particularly appreciating ones--to heirs without incurring punishing estate taxes.
The international financial crisis could deepen, with a more damaging impact on global economic growth and capital inflows to Indonesia than we currently expect.
Supply-siders know that the key to economic growth is capital investment.
In the general economy, the number of jobs rises and falls based on factors that include consumer spending, population growth, capital investment, labor laws, and startup businesses.
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