Remember too that the number one reason why start-ups fail is for lack of capital.
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Progressive African leaders are acutely aware that lack of capital can put paid to the continent's development.
The main problem of these successful entrepreneurs and the other weavers of Varanasi is lack of capital supply.
There are 91 banks that received TARP that are not making their dividend payments due to lack of capital.
Another weakness shared by Zambia's mines and much of the rest of Africa is the lack of capital investment.
These proposals do not address the "too big to fail" criticisms, nor do they address the lack of capital in banks.
This lack of capital formation and productivity does not bode well for maintaining jobs today or creating ones tomorrow.
Due to this lack of capital and access to accredited investors, building a company from scratch in the U.S. at this time is challenging.
The group noted that without crowdfunding, 50 percent of American businesses fail within their first five years (ironically, many of them due to lack of capital).
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And coming into 2009 was truly horrific thousands and thousands and thousands of companies were going out of business mainly due to a lack of capital.
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Looking back, however, she considers the lack of capital lucky.
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China, which has no lack of capital and a tendency quickly to create overcapacity in any successful business, still has many foreign private-equity firms wondering how to make money there.
Although the growth of the broadcast media has been hindered by a lack of capital investment, dozens of private FM radio stations are on the air, most of them in cities.
Often, though, their lack of capital means they are unable to teach a broad curriculum, are short of books and other materials, and are stuck in unsuitable (or even dangerous) buildings.
While entrepreneurship is indeed alive and on the rise in Turkey, as it is in emerging markets worldwide, it continues to face tremendous obstacles such as lack of capital, mentors and networks.
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"The process of opening up much-needed state schools is being impaired by a lack of capital funding and in some cases by the presumption in favour of free schools and academies, " he said.
Since the economic crisis, banks have lent little, partly because of a lack of capital, and partly because they have been reluctant to lend to risky borrowers under a legal system that makes it hard to collect debts.
Think of it: It's not so much the lack of capitalist ethos that impoverishes the people of Peru or Madagascar, but the lack of durable capital that can be traded back and forth.
Mayors all over the country are struggling with a lack of risk capital and overstretched personnel.
Even though what New Orleans is seeing is typical, the lack of venture capital funds stills leaves something to be desired.
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Some small businesses are constrained by lack of working capital.
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But beyond that, here are the top sources of anxiety: declines in consumer spending (42%), regulatory burdens (38%), the cost of health insurance benefits (33%), the growing national debt (27%), lack of available capital (21%) and federal taxes (26%).
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While we gripe about a lack of startup capital, it may be the Canadian startups with the most potential are getting the funded, while the rest are left to bootstrap, borrow, apply for incubators and accelerators, tap into tax credits, etc.
That suit, still ongoing, was the talk of the startup and venture capital community, raising questions about the relative lack of women in venture capital and in technology more generally.
This discrimination is reflected most critically in a lack of access to capital.
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Lack of progress on capital markets, in other words, is part of the price of governments' tacit support for forbearance towards doubtful borrowers.
Despite years of low interest rates and increasing competition among banks (which keeps rates low), budding entrepreneurs and policy wonks still lament a lack of access to capital.
Pro-reform Iranian economists estimate that American sanctions and their ripple effects the drag on inward investment, the reliance on black-market and grey-market suppliers, the higher cost of capital and the lack of easy access to spare parts for the large installed base of American-made infrastructure are slowing the Iranian economy by 10-15% a year.
The observed lack of lending could just as easily be driven by a lack of demand for business capital.
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