Take venture capital investment as another indicator of this balance of power tech shift.
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The Nordic region has become an attractive geography for venture capital investment by multiple standards of measurement.
Of course, Sacramento and Philadelphia outpaced every other region, with venture capital investment growing 188% and 158% respectively.
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As part of the deal, Nottingham City Council will set up a venture capital investment fund for new start-ups.
The Can-Do Early Stage Venture Capital Investment Club meets four times a year to hear pitches from prequalified entrepreneurs.
That can help the startups raise less money when they go on to collect later rounds of venture capital investment.
Benway projected that the aggressive portfolio adjustments she suggested, which included our competition's only venture capital investment, could yield over 11% annually.
For example, the average holding period for a venture capital investment was previously four to seven years and today it is ten.
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Comverge Chairman, President and CEO Robert Chiste sees much growth--and much venture capital investment--in the related demand response and smart grid industries.
Noteworthy accomplishments (ie. acquisitions, IPOs) give us more credibility the next time a woman entrepreneur goes out seeking venture capital investment or future partnership.
The great promise of the technology, which has attracted billions of dollars in venture capital investment, is that it will be able to undercut the cost of standard solar panels.
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Backed by venture capital investment and funding from the Government of Canada, Fongo has pledged to match its unique free calling service with equally innovative and disruptive offerings for wireless data.
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Today, when you read about trends in venture capital investment, it would seem that you should have a funeral dirge playing in the background: investments are down 21% in software, 32% in biotech and 27% in medical devices.
Some 57% of venture-capital investment comes from overseas, and 31% from financial institutions and neither of these groups pays capital-gains tax.
On a smaller scale, Israel's government needs to push universities to focus on cyber instruction and to encourage more venture-capital investment.
Campbell: The schools, the entrepreneurs, the infrastructure (venture capital and investment bankers).
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Rex Health Ventures is an early example of venture-capital investment funds in the country started by a community, nonprofit hospital (Rex Health Care).
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To uncover this bias, the researchers gave 10-page pitch books to 101 graduate business students, crammed with financial information about a hypothetical venture-capital investment.
With my background in venture capital and investment banking, the Tides board chose a CEO from way outside what would have been its comfort zone 35 years ago and signaled its readiness to start a more entrepreneurial phase and adapt to new times.
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Raynes' suit claims her father used her trust like a piggy bank, illegally borrowing millions to use as venture capital and shifting investment losses to the trust.
The prospect of shortages has attracted a growing number of venture capital firms and investment funds to place big bets on technologies aimed at replenishing water supplies.
"There's an incredible amount of research and a very large sum of venture capital and private investment going into the field, " says Dr. Amit Patel, a cardiac surgeon and director of Cardiac Cell Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Genband, which is based in Frisco, Texas, scored high marks due partly to its large fundraising haul from a mix of top venture capital, private equity and corporate investors, including One Equity Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, Intel Capital, Oak Investment Partners, Siemens Venture Capital and Venrock.
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Unlike a bank loan or other types of debt financing, equity capital (whether it's an angel investment or venture capital) gives someone else an ownership interest in your company.
In both private equity and venture capital funds, any investment bought must ultimately be sold.
Several set their pricing to resemble that of venture-capital firms or investment banks, structurally.
To keep up, retail executives are cozying up to venture-capital firms and investment bankers that can help identify promising entrepreneurs and tech trends.
Breyer famously put his firm Accel Partners on top of the of the venture capital heap with the investment in Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg.
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Providing incentives for angel investing, venture capital and other innovation investment will have a rapid, immediate impact on job creation in everything from IT to biotech, nanotech, remote education and electric cars.
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