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You're in the office of a Venture Capitalist. Stacked on his desk are dozens of business plans. On the table beside him are many dozens more. His secretary enters, burdened with the morning's mail. He groans. More business plans.

Bank Of America Investment Is this man, who manages a VC firm, unique in his field?

Diversification . A larger pool of funds allows the fund manager managing the unit trust to purchase a wider range of investments. Rather than concentrating an investment portfolio into one or two investments or shares, a portfolio of market securities can be held. The wider the spread of investments, the less volatile (i.e. variable) the investment returns will be. In simple terms, not putting all your eggs in one basket.

Investment Opportunity No. Every individual VC or VC firm is being inundated daily with people wanting investment in their ideas, their concepts, their companies. It's been this way for decades.

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Banc Of America Investment The Glory Days

High Yield Plus Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified, end management investment company. The Fund's primary objective is to provide a high level of current income to shareholders. It seeks to achieve this objective through investment of at least 80% of its investable assets in publicly or privately offered, rated securities of comparable quality. As a secondary investment objective, the Fund will seek capital appreciation, but only when consistent with its primary objective. The Fund has agreements with, among others, Wellington Management Company, LLP (the Investment Adviser) and Prudential Investments LLC (the Administrator). The Investment Adviser makes investment decisions on behalf of the Fund.

Banking Investment Back in the 90s, when the DotCom fervor was in full flower, there were even more business plans coming through the door, just as many phone calls asking for the chance to make a presentation.

Blue Chip Value Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified, end management investment company, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (including the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of large companies with headquarters in the United States, such as those included in, or similar in size to those included in, the S and P 500 Index. Denver Investment Advisors LLC (DIA) acts as the Fund's investment adviser, while ALPS Mutual Funds Services, Inc. and DIA serve as the Fund' administrators.

Investment Solution Strategic There were then, too, hundreds of Venture Capital Clubs. These were groups of individual private investors who had gotten together to provide breakfast or luncheon meetings so that potential projects could be looked at, their principals open for questions.

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Investment Banking Services Those were the glory days. Companies were getting hundreds of millions of dollars on concepts only. Wall Street was alive with brokerage houses taking brand new companies, with inexperienced executives, through the IPO circus, garnering still more hundreds of millions of dollars. Investors were in the grasp of a "Tulip Mania, throwing cash at every new stock issue as long as it had to do with the DotCom industry. But your chances of getting funded were still only about 1 in 1000-2000.

Bank Investment Back To the Present

Alternative Investment That was then, this is now. And what are your chances today?

Online Investment Services I've spoken at length with a wealthy VC who's been investing for over 20 years. He consults with other VCs and VC Clubs, runs his own VC Club. He told me that the VC club ranks have been decimated since the DotCom debacle. "I estimate that there are less than 15-20% of the numbers of VC clubs back in the 90s. And most of the names now were not on those lists then," he told me. "The private investors are also a different lot and they're far more cautious."

Accompany Essential Investment I asked him, "Between the VC firms and clubs, what is your estimate of the number of companies being funded today?" His reply was startling.

Investment Company "About one in ten thousand."

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Guide Investment Stock The Equity Investment Private Trust with which we work concentrates primarily on the quality of the Entrepreneur presenting the package. About 80% of their decision is based on that. As their US consultant said to me, "A great project with a mediocre entrepreneur will lose money every time. Even a poor project, with a great entrepreneur, will make us money. If they're both great, that's the ones we're looking for."

Investment Manual Solution The question for you, Mr. or Ms. Entrepreneur, is "Are you that one in 10,000?"
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