Investment Hasn't Dried Up For All the Right Companies.FORGET all the gloom and doom surrounding the dot-com bust Refers to the years 2000 to 2002, when the bottom fell out of the dot-com industry and hundreds of dot-com companies went bankrupt. All the rest lost a huge amount, if not almost all, of their stock valuation. See dot-com bubble. . Savvy investors, both private and corporate, are dusting themselves off and getting back into the game. "Angels have continued to write checks and have been filling the venture-capital void while the VC community focuses on its existing investments and follow-on rounds," said Scott Peters Scott Peters can refer to:
New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. that produces educational and networking events and publishes Angel Advisor magazine. Peters said that angels (private investors who fund early-stage companies) are seeking to invest in firms that don't need a huge amount of cash to reach profitability. Despite the chill that hit the market after hundreds of poorly conceived Web-based companies tanked last year, investors are still writing checks to companies with a proven business model and solid growth potential. Jane Applegate is the author of "201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business," and is CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SBTV SBTV Small Business Television (network) .com, a multimedia site providing small-business resources. |
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