General Electric Capital Corporation and Wells Fargo Capital Finance also provided financing for the deal.
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In general, capital costs are twice as high as land-based.
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About 50% of the U.S. jet fleet is leased from such companies as General Electric Capital Aviation Services (nyse: GE - news - people ), International Lease Finance Corp. (a unit of AIG) and CIT Group (nyse: CIT - news - people ).
All these examples illustrate the general rule that capital, like water, tends to flow around obstacles.
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Knight Capital general counsel Leonard Amoruso asks how the individual stock circuit breakers will interact with market-wide circuit breakers, a newly adopted up-tick rule for short sellers and internal circuit breakers imposed by NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq.
In contrast, its competitor General Electric reallocated capital from commodity plays that had paid in the 1970s to new real enterprises like magnetic resonance machine-manufacturing, betting that discretionary income for health care was going to soar with the coming rise in affluence.
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The co-founder and General Partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz talks about the girl effect.
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Bijan Sabet, a Tumblr director who is a general partner at Spark Capital, is optimistic.
In this context, my administration will offer General Motors adequate working capital over the next 60 days.
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Marquardt, general partner at August Capital, is a banker, professional board member, and, formerly, a hardware guy.
There are four main possibilities: the owners of the corporation, owners of capital in general, workers, and consumers.
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The company said proceeds would be used for general corporate and working capital purposes and to improve liquidity.
Suyang Zhang, general partner of IDG Capital Partners in Shanghai, ranked No. 48.
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He is currently a General Partner at Highland Capital Partners focusing primarily on digital media and the internet.
If more domestic industries, including finance and real estate, can draw on foreign restructuring capital, general dynamism is again possible.
"Someone once said an incubator is where you put sick babies, " says Robert Higgins, managing general partner of Highland Capital.
Formal EIR programs are even more rare but can be found at Austin Ventures, ff Venture Capital, General Catalyst, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Miller recently served as General Partner at Highland Capital Partners, and previously reported directly to Steve Jobs as Vice President of Mobile Advertising at Apple Inc.
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Just to remind you (needless I am sure), the current convention is that banks need in general to hold equity capital equivalent to around 10% of their loans.
The investors include General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital.
"This is kind of like the flying skateboard, " said Jared Fliesler, a general partner at venture capital firm Matrix Partners, referencing the still-not-here hoverboards from the "Back to the Future" trilogy.
"Almost all of our companies are looking for Android and iPhone developers, " said Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital, a Boston venture capital firm, whose portfolio includes Twitter Inc.
We plan to use the net proceeds that we receive in this offering for working capital and general corporate purposes, including possible acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses, technologies or other assets.
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Shaw, Thomas Peterffy, chairman of Interactive Brokers, Leonard Amoruso, the general counsel of Knight Capital, a partial owner of the newest U.S. stock exchange Direct Edge, and Jeff Engelberg, senior trader at Southwestern Asset Management.
Being able to prove a business concept in a hurry, even if the product isn't perfect, is especially attractive to investors, says Peter Bell, general partner with Highland Capital Partners, a venture firm in Lexington, Mass. that staked Digg, Mapquest and Ask Jeeves.
Roger McNamee, a general partner at Integral Capital Partners, a Menlo Park, Calif. venture capital and public investing firm, says Austin has moved ahead of Seattle and Atlanta in the quality of its software startups -- and is coming up fast on Boston.
Major venture capital shareholders in Kayak were General Catalyst Partners with 27.06% right after the IPO, Sequoia Capital with 16.31%, Accel Partners with 13.99 and Oak Investment Partners with 10.6%.
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