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Mark Hauser’s Hauser Private Equity Spearheads Major Deals in Industrial Sector

The Startup Magazine

Within private equity there are certainly sectors that drum up more attention than others. Private equity investments offer access to growth in more scaled businesses. Below, we explore some of the private equity investments made by Hauser Private Equity in recent years within the industrial sector. Healthcare.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses. Unlike small business entrepreneurs, their interest is not in earning a living but rather in creating equity in a company that eventually will become publicly traded or acquired, generating a multi-million-dollar payoff.

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Grant Applications Often Provide Early-Stage Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S. through Grants.gov , an online directory of more than 1,000 federal grant programs that don’t look for equity or payback. The approval process is long and bureaucratic.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

to receive undergraduate and graduate degrees (education that is in part supported by all Americans, even in private schools, as schools get huge tax breaks and are often funded at least in part by government grants). government plan. The evaluation of skill is performed by the government bureaucracy. In short: Dear everyone.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

Global Sources, once listed in Bermuda and now owned by the private equity giant Blackstone, has been active in Hong Kong since the 1970s and focuses on trade in and out of the former British colony. B2B Platforms in the United States. Alibaba and DHgate are both based and focused on mainland China.

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Funding for Women-Owned Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. Most government agencies and many large corporations have procurement programs that allot a percentage of their contracts to women-owned small businesses.

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