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Proposed bipartisan legislation to expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (which reviews mergers and acquisitions of domestic companies by foreign entities) to a broader range of investments – including Chinese venture capital and private-equity investments in US start-ups – is consistent with this recommendation.
But even from the perspective of oil interests, war against Iraq is a risky venture: not only is the impact on price, and therefore on oil company prices, highly uncertain, but other oil producers, including Russian and European interests, will not easily be ignored.
Continental Europe has too few elite universities, insufficient venture capital, and too many regulations, with only a half-dozen countries spending enough on research and development.
It’s also that she believes that God set her legislative agenda in Alaska, and that she has failed to venture much beyond the Discovery Channel when it comes to foreign travel.
This is a challenge for the general proposition of self-help, and also for my own new venture: the Health Initiative Coordinating Council (HICCup), which will advise five communities competing to win the HICCup Prize for the greatest improvement, according to five metrics, in health (not health care) over five years.
Subsequently, they raised equity capital from investors seeking to make a social impact – Compartamos from Accion and the IFC, and SKS from Unitus, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and an Indian government development agency.
Exit-driven venture capital might be appropriate for gadgets; but technological revolutions have historically required patient, committed public financing.
The NamDeb mining corporation, a joint venture between the government and De Beers, dominates the industry.
A recent ten-year analysis of 300 start-up investments backed by venture capitalists in the United States showed that companies with a female founder performed 63% better than those with all-male founding teams.
Last month, China’s environment ministry rejected an application from BMW Brilliance, the German carmaker’s Chinese joint venture, to expand one of its plants, citing inadequate waste-water analysis and failure to meet official pollution-reduction targets.
Many SOEs and SWFs have recently established venture capital arms to target high-tech companies producing innovation that can underpin their core businesses.
In 2011, Rosneft agreed on a joint venture with BP, but TNK-BP’s Russian shareholders forced it to retreat from the deal.
That’s not exciting territory for venture capitalists and private-equity investors, but it is in keeping with the expectations of institutional investors, such as pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.
Critics will warn of a brain drain, but do we really think that a 1% tax would convince, say, the venture capitalist Peter Thiel to pack up and move to New Zealand?
Although the US does not have such a requirement, it would be helpful for both countries to state openly that in the future no foreign company will be required to enter a joint venture or to transfer technology in other ways as a condition of doing business.
Today the US federal government is the world’s biggest venture capitalist by far.
During the first three quarters on 2009, private venture capital firms invested less than $3 billion combined in this sector.
Through deliberation councils, supplier development forums, investment advisory councils, sectoral round-tables, or private-public venture funds, collaboration aims to elicit information about investment opportunities and bottlenecks.
Furthermore, many institutional investors do not yet have sufficient expertise to venture into infrastructure.
Improved access to venture capital, which liberalization of financial services would facilitate, could help.
Royal Dutch Shell’s joint venture with the government produces half of the country’s daily output of 2.5 million barrels.
But only recently many slow growing countries were eager to develop venture capital markets and foster stock exchanges--France's Nouveau Marche, Germany's Neuer Markt, Italy's Nuovo Mercato, and Mothers in Japan--devoted to risky investments.
But in Poland, and elsewhere I venture, this is not so.
Why, with the central government in thrall to them, should they venture into the unknown perils of an early election?
No surprise that a number of Western democracies launched this venture in 1994, raising high expectations in Eastern Europe.
Our little group – made up of philanthropists, a few entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and “angel” investors – concentrated on start-up companies, the source of so much commercial energy and of so many jobs.
Looking for winners, venture capitalists use what signals they can to weed people out.
If the entrepreneur is focused on a small but needy market, the venture capitalist will suggest shifting focus, whereas the philanthropist will help him figure out how to serve that market effectively.
Both groups often make the mistake of short-term thinking: venture capitalists behave too much like stock traders, and philanthropists often give money to strangers instead of donating time (as a mentor!) to make a charity more effective.
No one expects venture capitalists to divert their resources to village schools, but perhaps they could focus a little more on training new employees rather than poaching them from the competition at inflated salaries.
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