BAAM's seeding fund, which invests in start-up hedge-fund managers in return for a share of their profits, is likely to benefit as banks scale back, for example.
Timbuktu were among the finalists in the Start up competition at the Mind The Bridge Venture Camp last week in Milan.
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There is less risk in investing in a start up company where you know the people than there is investing in the stock market.
If they remain in Santiago they'll help bolster confidence in Start-Up Chile and stimulate the economy.
Interim valuations, particularly in start-up companies, whose worth, if any, lies far in the future, are difficult.
But a confluence of factors is contributing to the development of New York as an important long term player in start-up tech.
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The fund, called BMW i Ventures, will develop some of these services in-house, but will also invest in start-up providers of innovative services.
Nearly half of Blackstone's deals since 2009, for example, have been stakes in start-up or "platform" companies that it will slowly grow through deals.
Especially in start-up phase, every member of the team has to take care of his or her own responsibilities first, otherwise success is unlikely.
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John Haltiwanger, an economist at the University of Maryland, says he's skeptical of the GEM report given that it claims such a dramatic boost in start-up activity.
Micro-credit has provided billions of dollars in start-up and growth capital to encourage micro-entrepreneurs around the world to launch their own enterprises to lift themselves out of poverty.
Brock said there are plans to expand U.S. operations for his group, and he also wants to add a permanent clinic in Guyana and start up a program in Africa.
As such, steady declines in start-up size, which stretch back more than a decade, could explain the slow labor market recovery following the previous recession in 2001, as well as today, according to Brian Headd, an economist at the SBA's Office of Advocacy.
An increase in start-up activity is a good sign for the overall national economy because it will lead to more employment opportunities in the near future, says Donna Kelley, the report's lead author and an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
Meanwhile another member of the European venture capital establishment, Index Ventures, is finally setting up offices nearby, in the start-up hub known as the Silicon Roundabout (photo above).
Ganapathi is interested in developing a start-up in his areas of mobile and social, with an enterprise focus.
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Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates to work in a start-up or early stage company in a low-cost city.
One start-up that has done extremely well in the Boston Start-up Common has some interesting views on the SVSC.
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Where Start-Up Nation is less impressive is when the authors opine on why Israel is in fact a start-up nation full of innovators.
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Other volunteers are working to preserve traditional crafts in Uzbekistan, rebuild Bosnia-Herzegovina, help small businesses start up in Namibia and give job training to disabled people, many of whom were crippled 20 years ago by the fighting in Zimbabwe.
In a start-up, you see this same behavior once a modicum of success is reached.
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Does everyone you work with in your start-up do the right thing all the time?
In a start-up, all too often the original idea is good and gets the ball rolling.
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Here are five reasons that working from home is appealing, especially for companies in the start-up phase.
The use of Exchange grants includes support for activities related to running Exchanges in their start-up year.
Two years out of college and working her butt off in the start-up world, something was missing.
Shyam, a newly trained chartered accountant, relocated to New Delhi in 1979 to start up a factory nearby.
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Given that most stock options in new start-up companies are never worth anything, this would seem a fool's errand.
Last year we invested in a start-up digital publisher called Open Air Publishing.
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The authors would have us believe that government played a big role in generating prosperity in this start-up nation.
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