venture capital

Articles

• 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 (...)

• Is CDC Entreprises useful outside of the "com" for the State?
  8 April 2012, by Bernard Zimmern, Emmanuel Sala

  CDC Entreprise is the operating arm of Caisse des Dépôts,