The VCC Die-Off

Written by William Cate


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Byrepparttar mid-1980s, many Venture Capital Club's investment strategy had evolved to relying on a basket-investment approach to limit risk. The VCC membership would act as an informal cooperative of angel investors each of whom would put some money intorepparttar 100516 approved speculations. The theory being by spreadingrepparttar 100517 speculative risk,repparttar 100518 angels would reduce their losses and increase their odds of success. In fact, this strategy keep Angels involved withrepparttar 100519 VCC longer. However,repparttar 100520 risk reward ratio eventually ensured thatrepparttar 100521 Angels would be losers. Byrepparttar 100522 1990s, High Tech was glamorous andrepparttar 100523 logical focus for these speculative investments. The DotCom Bubble bursting meant that not only didrepparttar 100524 publicly trading DotComs fail, but also almost all ofrepparttar 100525 VCC DotComs went under.

In March 2000, I had a mailing list of over three hundred traditional VCCs inrepparttar 100526 United States. Today, my mailing list is less than one hundred. To date, there hasn't been a resurgence of traditional VCC interest inrepparttar 100527 States. Given that Venture Capitalist now fund one business plan in every ten thousand they review and two-thirds ofrepparttar 100528 VCCs are no more, entrepreneurs seeking venture capital will find it far harder to findrepparttar 100529 risk capital that they are seeking.

The alternative to traditional venture capital gambling is to followrepparttar 100530 Venture Capital Profits strategy. At least one VCC,repparttar 100531 Global Village Investment Club [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/] is doing so. If you plan to wait untilrepparttar 100532 Second Coming ofrepparttar 100533 VCCs and better odds of a favorable review by Venture Capital firms, you will probably be waiting for decades.

To contactrepparttar 100534 author, email Beowulfinvestments@Earthlink.net

He has been the Managing Director of Beowulf Investments [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] since 1981 and is the Executive Director of the Global Village Investment Club [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]


Settle Credit Card Debt Through consolidation

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Simultaneously, we would speak to all your creditors to haverepparttar interest and penalties you pay on your dues either eliminated or lowered. This wayrepparttar 100499 sum you owe would come down quite dramatically, in most cases by at least 40 percent. All your debts would also be consolidated so that you can settle them through one, lower monthly payment. That means you would be left with cash to spare, which you could use to speed up repayments or build up savings. Sticking to this plan would get you out of debt within a few years and your credit would also be rebuilt inrepparttar 100500 process.

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