Ms. Fuller said that the punishing capital environment, especially for media start-up companies, was "certainly one consideration, but it was only one of many.
Doshi argued that this data is becoming increasingly important — as the venture capital environment becomes more challenging for startups, they have to pay more attention to revenue.
The capital markets and the capitalization environment, I think, will change, and the market forces will look for another product to provide financing.
Citigroup's earnings rose 12percentt in the fourth quarter, despite a difficult environment for capital markets and corporate lending.
In both cases, investment in human capital and an enabling environment for businesses to boost employment are essential.
"The environment for capital spending worsened in the first quarter with added concerns about the war and its impact on the already weakened economy," said Craig A. Conway, chief executive of PeopleSoft.
While this might boost support for the president's Peronist party in the coming legislative elections, Argentina's dismal track record of infrastructure investments by state-owned enterprises should give pause to voters concerned about the quality of their utility services.Whatever the government decides, its vaunted economic recovery will founder if it cannot secure the environment for capital.
At the same time developing countries, particularly debtor countries, can fit themselves to play a fuller part in the world economy by adopting effective structural adjustment policies, coupled with measures to mobilize domestic savings, to encourage the repatriation of capital, to improve the environment for foreign investment and to promote more open trading policies.
Tough stories of struggling recovery in credit markets and pleading advertisements searching for capital investments form the environment for a mournful woman whose spiritual journey in life is defined by having taken a vow of poverty.
