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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

As hedge funds receive more dollars and the markets, therefore, become more efficient, hedge funds need to find new ways to generate returns. Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article (can’t find online source but in Marketplace B3C) on hedge funds entering the venture capital market. a New York-based financial boutique.