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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 In the U.S. cents or 6.25

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More on Financial Regulation, Its Unintended Consequences, and the Geithner Plan

Pascal's View

  Both the Government and the private. Advisors, they actually passed inspections by the Securities Exchange. Commission. failure of this country’s regulatory oversight of the capital markets has been. failure of this country’s regulatory oversight of the capital markets has been. be resolved.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Yet one of the most remarkable things about the boom in microwave and silicon startups occurring in the 1950’s and 60’s was that it was done without venture capital. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. There was none. Whitney Co.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

To be fair, visibility into the current cash position and the change in the cash position has always been important for software executives, but is even more critical for SaaS businesses because the working capital requirements are higher and the payment terms are often stretched out over the term of the contract. but focus is a good thing.