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Informal Venture Capital: Investors, Investments and Policy Issues in Finland [Hardcover]

Annareetta Lumme (Author), Colin Mason (Author), Markku Suomi (Author)

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Publication Date: March 31, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0792381114 | ISBN-13: 978-0792381112 | Edition: 1st

Small businesses in virtually all industrialized countries find it increasingly difficult to obtain finance from institutional sources. Banks have become more risk-averse; venture capital funds, previously of only marginal significance, are now often concentrating their investments on established companies; and management buyouts and buyins and pressures to reduce government spending have resulted in a reduction in public policy initiatives. In this context there is a growing interest in the role of the informal venture capital market as an alternative source of risk finance for small business. Informal Venture Capital: Investors, Investments and Policy Issues in Finland investigates the phenomenon of `business angels' - wealthy private individuals who invest in small businesses - who are increasingly recognized throughout the developed world as representing the most important source of venture capital for entrepreneurial businesses in their start-up and early growth stages. This volume answers key questions about these investors, and contributes significant new evidence on aspects of the informal venture capital market which have not been examined in previous studies. It further provides an authoritative assessment of the effectiveness of policy initiatives to stimulate the supply of informal venture capital, based on the experiences in Finland.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Small businesses in virtually all industrialized countries find it increasingly difficult to obtain finance from institutional sources. Banks have become more risk-averse; venture capital funds, previously of only marginal significance, are now often concentrating their investments on established companies; and management buyouts and buyins and pressures to reduce government spending have resulted in a reduction in public policy initiatives. In this context there is a growing interest in the role of the informal venture capital market as an alternative source of risk finance for small business. Informal Venture Capital: Investors, Investments and Policy Issues in Finland investigates the phenomenon of `business angels' - wealthy private individuals who invest in small businesses - who are increasingly recognized throughout the developed world as representing the most important source of venture capital for entrepreneurial businesses in their start-up and early growth stages. This volume answers key questions about these investors, and contributes significant new evidence on aspects of the informal venture capital market which have not been examined in previous studies. It further provides an authoritative assessment of the effectiveness of policy initiatives to stimulate the supply of informal venture capital, based on the experiences in Finland.

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Hardcover: 196 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (March 31, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0792381114
ISBN-13: 978-0792381112
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
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Research in North America, Western Europe and Australia has clearly established that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the most significant sources of private sector employment and account lor most of the new jobs that have been created during the past two decades. Read the first page

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business introduction services, informal venture capital investments, investee businesses, informal venture capital market, promoting informal venture capital, venture capital guarantee, other business angels, active business angels, most business angels, institutional venture capital industry, entrepreneurs seeking finance, companies seeking finance, unsuccessful investors, venture capital investment activity, classic venture capital, business angel networks, informal risk capital, secondary stock markets, venture capital activity, suitable investment opportunities, investee companies, initial screening stage, informal investors, unquoted companies, investment preferences

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Finnish Guarantee Board, Financial Times, Finnish Venture Capital Association, Business Expansion Scheme, The Capital Market Task Force, United Kingdom, Venture Capital Report, Aram Associates, European Observatory

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