Enables teams of engineering, science, and management students to work with the top management of international high-tech start-ups and gain hands-on experience in starting and running a new enterprise outside the United States. Lectures expose students to the issues and policies that affect the...

This paper examines the probability of domestic and international venture capital playinga critical role in the rapid development of IT and Communications technologies inemerging nations. First we examine the venture capital point of view highlighting whattoday's venture capitalists require from...

Enables teams of engineering, science, and management students to work with the top management of international high-tech start-ups and gain hands-on experience in starting and running a new enterprise outside the United States. Lectures expose students to the issues and policies that affect the...

This paper investigates the decision by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to raise funding via the sale of equity. Prior theoretical and empirical work on the ‘pecking order’ of funding has indicated that we should not expect SMEs to prefer equity funding over internal funding and external...

(from Introduction): It is often said that if entrepreneurs are the engines that drive new companies, then financing is the fuel that propels them. The best sources of funding for the newest firms in Australia are bootstrapping (creative ways of launching a business), informal investment...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in Journal of Private Equity, published by and copyright Institutional Investor.

SMEs are considered as the best possible vehicle to reduce the unemployment rate andincrease economic participation in the country, specifically for historically disadvantagedpeople. Due to, among other things, the lack of small business management skills, thepotential of SMEs cannot be fully...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. January 2010. Major: Business Administration. Advisor: Harry J. Sapienza. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 166 pages, appendices A-B.

This Article takes the occasion of the simultaneous collapse of the high technology stock market and the failure of the dot-coin startups, along with the subsequent retrenchment of the venture capital business, to examine the law and economics of downside arrangements in venture capital...