Some Facts About Venture Capital Funding

By Roger Brown


Looking for resources to start up a new company is really hard even though one is talented in a certain field and can have the potential to create a boom in the market. This is especially true for young entrepreneurs who are talented but do not have the means and the access to the equity markets or other resources. So the best thing to do would be to get venture capital funding for their projects instead.

Just to clarify things, ventures are different from private equity in a sense that ventures focus on small guys. The stakes are higher for venture capitalists because there is no guarantee whether or not the startup will do well since there is no track record. Private equities, on the other hand, look at track record and would only fund established companies already.

Ventures would usually focus more on smaller players because the smaller players cannot usually get loans from banks or cannot get private equity companies to invest in them. That is where the ventures would come in. Since the small players need funding but cannot get any, then these capitalists would take advantage of the situation and offer their money up for grabs.

The catch of these types of deals is that one will be under the control of the investors. For ventures, the big chunk of the equity will be owned by the capitalists with their terms on the line. That is why the founder of the startup will not have full say over all the important management decisions and the operations of the company.

What the investors would do is that they would create shares that are sold to very few investors through what is known as a limited partnership. Since the limited partnership is created by the venture capital firm, they control who invests. In that sense, they actually control the entire corporate structure of the startup company instead of the founder.

That said, the startup company would have the access to a big amount of money that can fund their projects. However, they have to be under the mercy of the investors and the stakeholders when it comes to the overall management operations. Because of this, there are actually a lot of founders that were booted out of their startups because the investors could not trust their business decisions.

Currently, most of the ventures these days put their money in the tech companies since technology is rapidly advancing and new technology is always welcome. Of course, there are so many talented young people who have the computer skills needed to shake the world but do not have the funds to do so. So if one is willing to take the risk, then the rewards are definitely big for the taking.

For the entrepreneurs who have big dreams and big ideas, think about seeking help from ventures. While there is quite a catch with regard to getting funds from these capitalists, it is definitely worth it if the idea will work. It will be a one time big time type of project.




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