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Venture capital is a type of investment firm that invest in early-stage, high-potential, growth companies. The objective is to generate a huge profit through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or trade sale of the company. Venture capital investments are generally made as cash in exchange for shares (stocks or ownership) in the invested company.

Venture capital firms gathers money from institutional investors (universities’ endowments, pension funds, trusts, etc.) and very rich individuals.

A VC or venture capitalist is a person or investment firm that invest in startups and they are expected to bring managerial and technical expertise.

Venture capital is most attractive for new companies with short history are not secure enough to get loans from banks or they do not have enough power to do an IPO. In exchange for the high risk of those startups, venture capitalists usually get significant control over company decisions (by sitting in the board of the company because they are also shareholders of the startup).

This seems to be a nice event to go. This is an interesting event showcasing people doing crazy works.

Maker Faire 2009 will be organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 30-31.

More info: http://makerfaire.com

I’ve already build a huge personal site about venture capital industry and my effort in getting into it. After one year of gathering all the information, I think it is time to share what I discovered and studied to the public.

In some way, this is going to substitute my personal non-public access site. So, instead of hidding interesting news, material and other thing about vc industry, I’m going to share it all to you.

Also, by making my info gathering public, I am dedicating myself even further into this industry and I hope someday I can get a foot in this industry.

Also, feel free to include comments and any material that you think that is relevant for the VC industry discussion.