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2. Venture capital - Wikipedia

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   Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or ...

3. History of private equity and venture capital - Wikipedia

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   The public successes of the venture capital industry in the 1970s and early 1980s (e.g., DEC, Apple, Genentech) gave rise to a major proliferation of venture capital investment firms. From just a few dozen firms at the start of the decade, there were over 650 firms by the end of the 1980s, each searching for the next major "home run".

4. Can I Invest in Venture Capital? - AOL

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   Venture capital is a segment of investing that focuses on new and emerging businesses. Investors, or venture capitalists, provide financing or other resources for startups or new businesses with ...

5. Private equity - Wikipedia

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   Private-equity capital is invested into a target company either by an investment management company (private equity firm), a venture capital fund, or an angel investor; each category of investor has specific financial goals, management preferences, and investment strategies for profiting from their investments.

6. How to Invest Like a Venture Capitalist - AOL

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   Venture capitalists, those who risk funding relatively young companies, can easily lose money in most of their investments. As venture capitalist Paul Graham writes, "effectively all the returns ...

7. I recruit for VC firms. Here's what they're looking for in ...

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   Landing a job in venture capital is notoriously difficult because it's so competitive. Emma Halls, a Stem7 Executive Search recruiter, shares what VC firms are looking for in candidates.