The outplacement firm believes, as I do, that the difficult financing environment for start-ups contributes to the low levels of entrepreneurship among job seekers.
The financing environment for clean tech companies is tough today, given the negative fashion sentiment, but good companies with highly differentiated technologies are getting funded.
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The market for wind power has been buffeted by low electricity demand, low natural gas prices (which make wind power comparatively more expensive) and a tough financing environment.
In addition to having ready access to equity capital, these companies are taking advantage of the friendly financing environment to make buys and lower their borrowing costs as well.
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This poisons the environment for financing new capital investments.
Now its mandate has spread to the environment, culture and even the financing of new industries.
As we look to the future, we see an environment ripe with conditions for transformative financing and capacity building to help people and communities reach their highest potential at every stage of life.
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Exciting new strategies and approaches have streamlined data logging, encouraged fit-for-purpose engineering, and bred innovative financing strategies aimed towards developing the untapped resource in the built environment.
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We are much more ready to abandon or sell a technology in clean tech today if it fails to be highly differentiated because one has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment that will limit the ability to raise equity financing for these companies in the future.
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That is because in the current environment, when markets allow buyers to provide a reasonable multiple, get financing, offer an attractive premium and clear the deal with shareholders, the initial bid is likely to be fully valued.
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Commissioner Roger Goodell is leading an ownership group determined to take back some of the turf that was lost in 2006, as the economic environment has been altered in the years since, especially in the area of stadium financing.
Now, in addition to the tax credits, in addition to the financing, one of the other things that, frankly, small businesses need is just a economic environment that is growing.
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