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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

This has been an important year for us as a firm, as well as the market in general. There was a significant pull-back of the public markets in Q1. But what kind of impact has this had on the private markets? Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. These include making deposits, transferring funds, paying bills and managing stock portfolios. Small Business Loan Overview.

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Source: Center for Venture Research – Angel Market Analysis Report. 1994 – present. Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. Exited Investments.

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Why Small Community Lenders Have Your Back

Up and Running

trillion in assets and have the marketing budget to prove it. Department of the Treasury oversees the CDFI program, which was established in 1994 to make capital accessible to struggling communities. Lenders can secure loans with equipment, a stock portfolio, or other assets. You know their jingle.

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Entrepreneur Finance Advice: Top 5 Monthly Dividend Stocks

The Startup Magazine

Main Street Capital is a publicly traded private equity firm that offers equity and debt financing to lower middle-market companies with a revenue between $10 million and $150 million. It also offers debt financing to middle-market companies making anywhere from $150 million to $1.5 Main Street Capital. Apple Hospitality REIT.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. more than the combined market capitalizations of Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo, Netscape and the entire Internet sector. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. But to have such a birth, we must first have a funeral.

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