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Stages of Social Enterprise Capital

Business Plan Blog

Survival or Establishment Stage: Once initial seed capital is drying up and no profit has yet been earned, the challenge for a social enterprise will be to expand the customer base and increase the market penetration while preserving capital. The “five Cs of credit” lenders assess are character, cash flow, capacity, context and collateral.

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Venture Capital and Hedge Funds

BeyondVC

Well, there is clearly lots of money sloshing around in alternative assets like hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital. In addition, I highlighted the blurring of hedge funds and private equity. Increasingly, hedge funds are moving just from private equity and now more aggressively into venture capital.