Many of the world's greatest companies, from Google to Amazon.com to Intel, grew up on venture capital money.
Silicon Valley, where the vast majority of venture capital money resides, has a long and storied history funding tech companies.
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The UK government confirmed most of the capital money available to Scotland would be in the form of loans and shared equity, primarily for housing.
"The Irish republic's government are providing some of the capital money for that, I suspect that will go ahead rather than lose that inward investment, " he said.
Funding from councils and other sources is being squeezed, though, and Arts Council England has decided to focus capital money on improving existing buildings rather than putting up new ones.
Mr Coaker proposed an amendment to the bill ensuring that parents and local education authorities would be consulted before capital money was used to build free schools, which he branded an "experiment".
"These states are lower cost areas, but their labor forces are not competitive and therefore are not going to attract venture capital money or big outside investments, " says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com.
Facebook got more early venture capital money.
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In fact, many of the entities created by Thornwater and Sky Capital fed money to run the brokerage firm through loans that were never repaid.
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Two years ago, he and several colleagues founded Chicago-based American Working Capital, which invests their own money and capital from a few wealthy families.
And what tools are available to ensure that your human capital, the money you earn over your working life, and your invested capital will be enough to support you during retirement?
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European venture-capital firms lost money during 2000-10 after the bursting of the dotcom bubble.
Beijing can continue to work its magic as long as strict capital controls keep money inside the country.
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Ultimately, your goal is to preserve your capital and make money, not to make friends with your broker or money manager.
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Nearly three years later and after a timely cash infusion from Warren Buffett, GE Capital is a money machine again.
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Put your spare capital in a money market fund and you lose 3% per annum adjusted for the real rate of inflation.
For assets that a family can't keep, planners use the term "social capital": money that can go only to the IRS--or to charity.
Unlike Britain and France, Germany lets the banks decide whether to join the rescue, but imposes harsh conditions on those that boost their capital with public money.
So long as the oil-fired band keeps playing, most Russian banks are cheerfully sticking to their core competences: asset shuffling, kickback lending, capital flight and money laundering.
Just as during the Carter years, during the Bush years productive businesses suffered a capital deficit as money flowed into the dead money sector that is housing.
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Venture capital firms gather money from individuals, often wealthy individuals, and use this large pool of money to invest in a variety of companies whose goal is often to go public.
Bain Capital always made money.
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This is a measure of the money that capital markets are throwing at the media business.
In short, that foreign capital is helping earn money to support Castro's vicious government.
In fact, many of our managers have consistently protected capital and even made money in these down markets.
Since both are denominated in dollars, it is easy to see money and capital as the same thing.
Mr Peel defended spending money on capital building projects and refurbishments at stations.
It has been seeking new credit lines since last December and trying to raise money from capital markets abroad.
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