According to Women 2.0, private tech companies with female executives achieve a 35% higher return on investment.

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As valuations for private tech companies soar, banks and investors have been looking for ways to tap the growth before they go public.

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Among his savvy moves: establishing venture capital vehicles to invest in hot private tech companies like Facebook well ahead of their initial public offering.

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In this week's issue, Jason Hidalgo takes a look at what went down in New England and examines the risk of public funds being used to support private tech companies.

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While some experts are predicting that the removal of the general solicitation ban will help spawn the next Facebook or Google, tech companies will actually be the companies least affected by the change in law because the private capital markets for tech are already extremely efficient.

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Valuations in the tech world have been exploding, especially in private companies.

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The approach synchs with current NSF goals, which help catalyze gains in the private economy, funding tech that trickles in through licensing agreements and new companies.

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But to achieve this, tech companies must encourage users to make a leap into an unknown world and throw private information into a void.

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