Category Archives: Funding
Intel, VC firms to invest $3.5B in US companies
WASHINGTON – Intel and 24 venture-capital firms are planning to invest $3.5 billion over the next two years on U.S.-based technology companies to help create new jobs.
Intel Corp.’s CEO, Paul Otellini, announced the “Invest in America Alliance” in a speech Tuesday in Washington.
The program will target areas such as clean technology, information technology and biotechnology. [...]
China Builds Stakes in Top U.S. Firms
David Barboza and Keith Bradsher
Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China’s sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup.
Although most of the stakes were small, China Investment Corp., the government’s $300 [...]
Obama to Roll Out Small-Business Lending Program
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will roll out a proposed $30 billion small-business lending program Tuesday, the next in a series of administration efforts to jump-start hiring by the nation’s small businesses.
The program, which Mr. Obama will detail at an appearance in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, would invest $30 billion from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief [...]
Start-Ups Will Keep Struggling in 2010
By COLLEEN DEBAISE
Read an excerpt from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL COMPLETE SMALL BUSINESS GUIDEBOOK (Three Rivers Press).
The economic downturn has dimmed many entrepreneurs’ hopes of opening a small business, as sources of funding have dwindled or dried up completely. And while many hope 2010 will be better, the outlook continues to be bleak.
The majority of [...]
Small Businesses Could Face New Credit Squeeze
EMILY MALTBY
Business owners could face a new credit squeeze as early as next month, in what amounts to a gap period between the expiration of two popular stimulus provisions and the ramp-up of President Barack Obama’s plan to boost loans for small companies.
To be sure, the stimulus provisions – which lured hundreds of banks back [...]
Goldman, Buffett Team to Aid Small Businesses
By SUSANNE CRAIG And SCOTT PATTERSON
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said it is launching a $500 million small-business assistance program that includes an advisory panel with billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
The Wall Street firm made no connection in Tuesday’s announcement between the largest single charitable contribution in the firm’s history and public anger over its compensation. Goldman [...]
How to Protect Your Brilliant Idea
By COLLEEN DEBAISE
Adapted from the upcoming book THE WALL STREET JOURNAL COMPLETE SMALL BUSINESS GUIDEBOOK (Three Rivers Press, Dec. 29, 2009).
You want to spread the word about your business. But you also want to keep your innovative product or clever brand name safe from rivals, counterfeiters or rip-off artists.
What to do? Safeguarding your company’s intellectual [...]
Perform Due Diligence on Potential Investors
Entrepreneurs ought to vet angel investors and venture capitalists using a “reverse” due-diligence process. Here’s how to do it
By Tom Taulli
Before your company receives an infusion of equity capital—whether from a venture capital firm or an angel investor—an investigation into your operations usually takes place. The process is commonly known as due diligence, and [...]
Venture Capital Exits
By PUI-WING TAM
DALLAS — The 16th floor at Two Galleria Tower and similar outposts once were touted as the new Silicon Valleys, where clusters of venture-capital firms sprouted to fund the latest technology start-ups.
Now, amid a tough fund-raising climate and poor venture returns, the 16th floor and others like it across the nation have gone [...]