Informal venture capital: evaluating the impact of business introduction services

"In order to raise sufficient risk capital, small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have come increasingly to rely on informal venture capital (IVC) from private investors, or 'business angels', as the banking and formal venture capital industries have reined back their financing. Ho...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London [u.a.] Prentice Hall [u.a.] 1996
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"In order to raise sufficient risk capital, small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have come increasingly to rely on informal venture capital (IVC) from private investors, or 'business angels', as the banking and formal venture capital industries have reined back their financing. However, the potential of the IVC market remains largely untapped by SMEs; most business angels cannot find sufficient investment opportunities, while entrepreneurs - because of the passion of business angels for anonymity - find it difficult to identify and locate potential investors." "A variety of private, public and not-for-profit organisations around the world have responded to this situation by establishing business introduction services, and other types of networks, which aim to improve the efficiency of the operation of the IVC market by providing a channel of communication between angels and entrepreneurs." "This practical book provides an authoritative review of the operation of such initiatives and highlights the implications for best practice. Drawing upon the editors' seminal research, the book begins with an overview of IVC activity and examines the key issues to be considered in the successful operation of a business introduction service. The experiences of the IVC market in the USA, Canada, UK and Scandinavia, as well as matters of public policy, are outlined and illustrated by a number of specially commissioned case studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XXI, 307 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0133556603

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