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In the hottest market for technology start-up companies in over a decade, the Silicon Valley behemoth is playing venture capitalist in a rush to discover the next Facebook or Zynga.

PAGE A21 BUSINESS GOOGLE LOOKS FOR THE NEXT GOOGLE In the hottest market for technology start-up companies in over a decade, the Silicon Valley behemoth, Google, is playing venture capitalist in a rush to discover the next Facebook or Zynga.

Why are these technology giants playing venture capitalists?

Google would be better off paying a dividend to shareholders or buying back stock than playing venture capitalist, no matter how smart its venture capitalists might be.

Many of these policies may seem like common sense, yet they are ones that our nation is failing to pursue today and ones that our President has put on the back burner while trying his own hand at playing venture capitalist and focusing on government-led growth.

The unassuming-looking musicians in Väsen from Sweden take old dance rhythms such as polkas and, through an almost telepathic ensemble playing, venture into a territory that seems like the intersection of folk, chamber and jazz.

"Public investors are not willing to play venture capitalist," said Linda R. Killian, a cofounder of Renaissance.

And House Republican Jim Jordan, who will be chairing a hearing next week on the government's loan to Fisker, called the company's troubles "a very timely case study of what happens when the Department of Energy plays venture capitalist with taxpayer money".

It is that belief that is prompting Mr. Minor to again play venture capitalist, this time employing a model very different from the one employed when he was running 12 Entrepreneuring.

Wahaha, a food producer, Galanz, a maker of microwave ovens, and many others all depended on foreign protection and capital to grow and escape state strictures.Indeed one of the main, and underappreciated, functions of foreign investment in China has been to play venture capitalist to domestic entrepreneurs.

"The social aspect of the company's business model — the high wages to farmers, the social benefit fund, and support for sustainable farming — are the real reason Ecuador is wise to play venture capitalist to a Brooklyn business," wrote Alex Goldmark, a GOOD magazine contributing editor, in a recent post about the unusual investment.