Venture Capital Definitions and Approaches

Richard Thompson

Chapter Four in Real Venture Capital, 2008, pp 12-17 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract THEOXFORD ENGLISHDICTIONARY defines venture as a ‘risky undertaking’ but, to me, venture capital is an investment with very high upside and varying degrees of risk, depending on the stage of investment in a company. In a world in which, for most people, money and time are scarce commodities, it is important to concentrate on situations in which the rewards are potentially very high and the risks are therefore commensurate with the rewards. The old adage ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained’ could perhaps be rewritten as ‘nothing gained, nothing ventured’ in this context.

Keywords: Cash Flow; Venture Capital; Deductive Logic; Venture Capital Investment; Venture Capital Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230594067_4

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