Venture capital is a form of equity finance. It is a source of risk capital that is invested into businesses by professional outside investors to new and growth businesses.

Understanding the mind of Venture Capitalist – How to Avoid a broken ego. So you have a new and wonderful idea, possibly to save the planet, to solve the mystery of life, create an object, make a better cookie or just simply to make things better for humankind. Great! These, of course, are things that you want, but not what a Venture Capitalist or VC wants to hear. They want to hear about your market and who you will be selling to…

If you are thinking of raising venture capital for your company, here are ten sure fire ways to get turned down. Avoid these mistakes if you would like to be successful.

Ambiguous, unsettled, underdeveloped, and vague are just some of the adjectives to describe the current status of space law. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), described by some as the Magna Carta of space law, is the primary document which governs outer space activities. The real question becomes whether the OST will allow a private entity to claim ownership over what it can extract from a celestial body. The answer diverges into two camps.

Starting a business without the right amount of capital, one may seek partnership with a venture capitalist or get into a bad credit small business loan. Which among the two options is more preferred and provides better financial status to the business? Studies support that engaging with a venture capitalist would require the business owner a valuable equity and that would even be too risky as the capitalist might have a huge possibility of controlling and owning the business especially when it is no longer doing well in the market.