CET Home Page — Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology About MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest | MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest Welcome to the Knowledge Economy Network! - Knowledge Economy Network National Entrepreneur Center | NEC | National EC | Orlando, FL EVCA :: Home :: Home NRW.INVEST - Your experts on North Rhine-Westphalia Welcome to the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship Private Company Knowledge Bank | Private Equity & Venture Capital Private equity represents a class of investors, their funds, and their subsequent investments, which are made in private companies or in public companies with the goal of taking them private. Private equity investments are primarily made by private equity firms, venture capital firms, or angel investors, each with its own set of goals, preferences, and investment strategies, yet each providing working capital to the target firm to nurture expansion, new product development, or restructuring of the firms operations, management, or ownership. Aside from the outline of the private company life cycle below, this chapter will focus primarily on private equity firms, which represent the majority of the money in the private equity industry and characteristically invest in the buy-outs of mature companies and venture capital firms, which typically make high risk equity investments in seed, early, and growth stage private companies. The Private Company Life-Cycle The Father of Venture Capitalism
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Open Innovation Community Innovation Nation 50 cities and 10 lifestyles energizing businesses of all shapes and sizes. Whatever your entrepreneurial aspirations, there's a city to match your needs, accelerate your company's growth and improve your quality of life. Which is the one for you? Even in harsh economic times, America is still the land of opportunity, especially for entrepreneurs with the vision, ambition and flexibility to follow that opportunity wherever it may lead. The challenge is identifying which spot is the best fit. Our methodology is as far-ranging as the list itself, incorporating statistical data, lifestyle studies and empirical research. 1. Boulder, Colo. Homegrown successes Storage Technology: acquired by Sun Microsystems Socialthing: purchased by AOL Kerpoof: bought by The Walt Disney Co. Elevation: 5,344 feet Population: 103,650Median resident age: 29 yearsMean housing price: $585,323 VC raised $57 million by 11 Colorado startups in the first three months of 2010 Bismarck, N.D. Billings, Mont. Jackson, Wyo.