Once they have a strong proof of concept, then they should raise more capital to scale.
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But entrepreneurs and fund managers need capital at scale to succeed.
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Raise money when you can, be prepared to pay a premium for your capital and scale back your plans if necessary, but do whatever it takes to get your business up and running and your product out the door.
The second is structural, as communication technology has enabled the distribution of human capital to global scale.
After years of large-scale capital flight from Russia there is now a Kremlin drive to repatriate Russian money.
Because they finance the upfront cost of the solar system, they have an constant need for capital to reach scale.
They also point out that the country has enough foreign-exchange reserves and cash in hand to survive until after the election, unless there is a wholesale collapse of confidence among Brazilians, leading to large-scale capital flight.
"The results suggest that this kind of pressure is effective and that U.S. capital markets are exceedingly important to a company's success in raising the large-scale amounts of capital required to sustain one of the largest energy companies in the world, " according to Adam Pener, senior analyst at the Washington, D.
It also lacks a venture capital scene on the scale of that in London.
If the deal does go through, the British economy would certainly feel the effects of an injection of capital on such a scale.
Sir George recommended a sliding scale for capital gains tax on shares.
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So far both the scale of capital inflows to emerging economies and the actions taken to counter them are hardly out of the ordinary.
Along with a global recession came a drying up of both capital for large-scale project financing and investor tolerance for the sort of risk inherent in early-stage cleantech ventures.
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As a result, just when some of the other ingredients of China's boom, such as cheap land and labour, are becoming scarcer, the government is wasting capital on a vast scale.
The emerging finance industry was moving capital around at unprecedented scale to keep the show going this was financial engineering at a continental scale, something that had not really been attempted before.
Worries that investors may balk at a company with such baggage has forced underwriters Goldman Sachs Asia and China International Capital Corp. to scale down the size of the offering and cut the stock's asking price.
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In fact, such has been the scale of capital inflows into the American economy in recent years a capital surplus is the necessary and automatic corollary of a current deficit that the dollar could easily fall even without outflows.
However, that may not be the case if 200 or 2, 000 banks fail because most held mortgage-backed-securities they thought were safe because of their AAA ratings and because the strict application of mark to market accounting for those securities in a frozen market wiped out their capital on a massive scale.
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The bottom line: Energy projects depend on scale, and scale depends on capital.
He introduced a sliding scale that made capital-gains tax highly complex, and then reversed himself, introducing a single rate of 18%.
It is unlikely that there will be a large-scale flight of capital, since foreign investors with a long-term horizon seem bullish.
China is mobilising capital on an equally grand scale.
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Nobody, not even Exxon Mobil, approaches such absolute dollar scale and requires minimal capital investment.
"If you can scale your business without capital, you're actually cooler" than startups in Silicon Valley, she says.
And they would benefit from a splurge of capital that would allow large-scale manufacturing and thus lower costs.
Other banks are considering similar fund-raising exercises, as politicians fret that thin capital bases will compel banks to scale back lending.
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Instead banks will probably face a sliding scale, with minimum capital ratios rising as they get bigger or embrace more risk.
The answer depends on how easily banks are able to rebuild their capital, and how far they scale back lending in response to weaker balance sheets.
He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.
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