The bankers need companies that want to sell their shares and bonds in the region; fund managers want local companies to invest in; and private-equity partners need a pipeline of enticing ventures and the prospect of listing their companies after a few years.
Your small company isn't sexy enough to entice venture capital nor does your collateral give skittish banks enough comfort.
Categories that were hot in 2000 -- e-tailing, online information and technology consulting, for example -- are about as enticing to venture capitalists today as WorldCom bonds are.
Financing emerging businesses and helping them scale in the more mature, slower-growing U.S. market isn't all that exciting, but China's booming economy, wide-open market sectors and low costs offer a big runway for small businesses to scale quickly and profitably precisely what entices venture capitalists.
The idea is to give companies deemed worth saving a stamp of approval that will entice international venture capitalists back to Brazil again.
The endless white space provided a huge canvas for anyone enticed to venture into the depths and express their creativity.
The list of venture capitalists enticing him to say no to Google and to go it alone included John Doerr, the legendary venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins whose list of greatest hits includes Google, Netscape and Amazon.com, and Bob Kagle, the Benchmark Capital partner who first spotted eBay.
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The neighborhood does little to show visitors Tijuana's vibrant culture, Mr. Marshall said, or to entice Americans to venture south.
It wasn't the special sale on crackers that enticed her to venture out so early on an icy winter morning.
But in 1984, needing money for his family, and enticed by a venture capitalist who wanted to back a computer-software project that he had worked on as a graduate student, Myhrvold took a leave of absence and became, at the age of twenty-four, president of Dynamical Systems Research.
