Venture Capital
Micro-lending for a Brighter Future
A confluence of events has led me to my focus for this column. Firstly, I have been frustrated for years with the difficulty that students and recent graduates have in raising small amounts of money to start entrepreneurial businesses both in the United Kingdom and now in the US. Lack of credit history (or lack […]
The Economic Downturn and Venture Capital
Reflecting on this year is an unwise job and fraught with painful memories. We’ve all argued over the bailout for banks, worried about the support given to AIG and agonized over the measures for the ailing automotive industry. While we are trying to recover ‘big industry’ we have lost sight of the role that smaller […]