After two competitors, Pets.com and Petstore.com, became the first startups to receive major venture capital backing, PogoPet agreed to meet with Reisman that Saturday.
With collateral being re-hypothecated to a factor of four (according to IMF estimates), the actual capital backing re-hypothecation transactions may be as little as 25%.
Now lenders of every stripecommercial institutions, bridge-loan outfits, venture leasing firmsare falling all over themselves to hand out cash to profit-challenged companies, provided they have venture capital backing.
There were 56 IPOs by companies with venture capital backing last year, down from 93 the year before and way off from the 264 stock debuts logged at the height of the Internet bubble.
The falling of Glass-Steagall under Bill Clinton, the use of vastly increased leverage by the investment banks really transformed them into nothing more than casinos with 2 or 3 percent capital backing up their trades.
Since they are leveraged institutions (they have a small amount of capital backing lots of assets), with nowadays more or less mechanical risk-management systems that in effect force them to sell when losses mount, this probably also increases volatility.
There will be no political interference, he insists, in its investments, which will be made by a private-sector manager (due to be appointed in December) in specialist venture-capital funds backing technology-based businesses.
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Crown Prince Abdullah invested both personal prestige and diplomatic capital to win Arab backing for his peace initiative.
The "approach is particularly suited to firms which have the development backing, capital and infrastructure to allow them to set the bank up at speed, " the regulators said.
Big venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is backing one such firm, Gen110.
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Over time he got more backing from Foundation Capital and Charter Ventures.
Xtreme, which has attracted backing from venture capital firms and corporate investors like Dow Chemical, Fluor and BP Alternative Energy, is developing large-scale digital power systems for renewable energy and micro-grid applications.
In 1997, with the backing of a large venture capital firm, I undertook an analysis of the consulting business that included a review of the financial operations of a diverse group of consultants, including both smaller and larger firms.
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It is very unusual for a significant piece of financial legislation to pass without the backing of the UK, whose capital London is Europe's major financial centre.
Are you backing a company that has enough capital that it can get those developers on board, to develop the apps in a timely manner, in a way that is comparable to what is already available on other mobile platforms.
Glastonbury: Isle of Light was written by film producer Daniel McNicoll and has won backing from film finance company, Motion Picture Capital.
The ECB president also offered some backing to those who worry that enforcing higher capital standards on banks will get in the way of a European recovery.
The leaders who came to Jerusalem are not friends of Israel and their presence in our capital did not demonstrate that Operation Cast Lead enjoyed international backing.
The SBA, which is a federal government agency, licensed L Capital in 2004 as a small business investment company, backing Leitersdorf through the purchase or guarantee of various securities.
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He is starting to lose the backing of the middle class in Quito, the capital, his core supporters.
His speech so galvanised the gathered titans that he now has the backing of Sun Microsystems, Google and several big Silicon Valley venture-capital funds and investors.
Paul Panzera, director of sales at SCA Promotions, said his company had been putting its capital on the line in perfect-bracket contests for more than a decade, backing competitions that have collectively garnered millions of entries, and the closest anyone got was 59 of the 63 games.
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Although he had the support of the business community, he appears not to have regained the backing he lost last year from his core middle-class supporters in the capital, Colombo.
IGNIA, an impact investing venture capital fund that I co-founded with my partner Michael Chu, is focused on backing entrepreneurial efforts that address problems faced at the base of the socioeconomic pyramid in Latin America that have a disproportionate impact on the lives of low income families and business owners.
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Buffett isn't offering to help the insurers with those problems, although by backing the low-risk debt on their books he at least gives them some extra capital to deal with the situation.
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