FEATURE
High Investment Return Expectations May Limit VC Spending
September 18, 2009 | Venture Beat
Venture capitalists expect a 42% annualized return on their investment, according to a study from Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management. Banks, by comparison, look for a 6.5% return. These high expectations may explain why so many entrepreneurs have trouble securing venture funding despite having a perfectly good business model writes John Paglia
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Biotech Hit By a Drought of Venture Capital
September 17, 2009 | New York Times
From one perspective, the life sciences industry is a picture of expanding horizons and confidence. But even as the industry seems to be making progress, its biggest benefactors are pulling back. The traditional providers of venture capital in the United States are university endowments and pension funds, whose assets have been reduced sharply over the last year in the collapse of financial markets.
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With Science Journalism in Retreat, Universities Try Direct Information Innovation
September 16, 2009 | San Jose Mercury News
Concerned that journalism's economic problems are reducing Americans' understanding of science, medicine and other research, 35 of the nation's top universities — including Johns Hopkins, Stanford and UC- Berkeley — have announced they will feed their own accounts of their discoveries directly to top news sites on the Internet.
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