Role of Venture Capital in Promotion of New Enterprises1

From: Finance India | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

I. Introduction

VENTURE CAPITAL IS a financial innovation of the twentieth century became known after the famous legend of Apple Computers, which started out in U.S in 1977 with the Capital firm, Arthur Rock and Co. It has become the major topic of discussion and is attracting more attention at present than ever before due to globalization.

The concept of venture capital has been evolved as a method of seed capital or start up financing. In practice Venture Capital provides finance to budding entrepreneurs, having skills and businessaccumen, to attain their cherished goals. These new breed ...

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