Business Angels

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• French unemployment, lack of gazelles and Bercy laxity.
  25 June 2012, by Bernard Zimmern

  Firm-demography offers an explanation of French unemployment, based on 10 years of research and hundreds of studies with some 20 listed on this site. In France, we create 200,000 jobs a year less than we should, by not creating enough "gazelles". This is the failure of a tax administration, Bercy, that does not understand business creations and did not want to copy what works abroad.
  French unemployment? Lack of "gazelles", laxity of Bercy.
  The explanation of French unemployment is (...)

• Private equity and venture capital
  27 May 2011, by Rose Blackburry

  At the beginning of their life, private company can use several means of funding: Personal capital of the entrepreneur (or its friends and family) Business angels Venture capital
  This funding can occur during the seed and early stages of the company life cycle.
  The venture capital is a subset of private equity. Therefore all venture capital is private equity, but not all private equity is venture capital.
  As described by the Private Company Financial Data Authority, “private equity (...)

• Business Angels
  27 May 2011, by Bernard Zimmern

  Venture Capital and the birth of the Business Angels
  The term Business Angels (BA) was created around 1985 by Professor William Wetzel, University of New Hampshire, USA. It is indeed in the preceding years, during the 60’s and the 70’s, that BA have expanded in the USA under the effects of a law passed in 1958 by the US Congress aware of the funding problems of start-ups: the Small Business Investment Act.
  This law aims to encourage individuals to invest in start-ups creation. As shown (...)

• Funding and firm creation
  17 May 2011, by Bernard Zimmern

  Companies created by necessity and companies created by opportunity
  In order to create a company, you need cash to allow the company to survive at least for the sales to balance the expenditures.
  That is why most of the companies are created without employee, with minimum fixed costs. But they create few or no jobs, managing, but not all, to feed their creator. Following a categorization given by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), one has to distinguish companies created by (...)

• French companies dwarfism (1)
  13 March 2012, by Romain Sautard

  The French trade deficit has been attributed to the lack of medium size companies but in fact France is lacking firms in all sizes above 10 employees.