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"Venture Capital and Business Angels" is a series of five articles, written for the T3N magazine. It deals about the whole process of acquiring venture capital - from preparations to common leadership. Part 5 of the series describes classical conflicts between the management team and the venture capitalists and how to resolve them.

PDFs for download coming soon

"Venture Capital and Business Angels" is a series of five articles, written for the T3N magazine. It deals about the whole process of acquiring venture capital - from preparations to common leadership. Part 4 of the series describes usual regulations between the entrepreneurs and the venture capitalists.

The full article is available through the links below:

(PDF in english version coming soon)
Venture Capital & Business Angels - Regeln, Absprachen, Verträge (PDF german)

"Venture Capital and Business Angels" is a series of five articles, written for the T3N magazine. It deals about the whole process of acquiring venture capital - from preparations to common leadership. Part 3 of the series gives insights in the process of finding a common baseplate.

The full article is available through the links below:
Venture Capital & Business Angels - Presentation and Negotiation (PDF english)
Venture Capital & Business Angels - Präsentation und Verhandlung (PDF german)

"Venture Capital and Business Angels" is a series of five articles, written for the T3N magazine. It deals about the whole process of acquiring venture capital - from preparations to common leadership. Part 2 of the series gives hints on how to contact the guys with the money.

The full article is available through the links below:
Venture Capital & Business Angels - Elevator, Pitch and Exposé (PDF english)
Venture Capital & Business Angels - Elevator, Pitch und Exposé (PDF german)

"Venture Capital and Business Angels" is a series of five articles, written for the T3N magazine. It deals about the whole process of acquiring venture capital - from preparations to common leadership. Part 1 of the series gives hints on how to write a professional business plan.

The full article is available through the links below:
Venture Capital & Business Angels - Business plan (PDF english)
Venture Capital & Business Angels - Fabeltier Businessplan (PDF german)

India's capital markets have experienced sweeping changes since the beginning of the last decade. Its market infrastructure has advanced while corporate governance has progressed faster than in many other emerging market economies.

But in contrast to several developed countries and Asian economies, India's capital markets are still shallow, implying that further reforms are needed to make India a world-class financial centre. In it's India special series DB Research published another study figuring out that persisting reforms in the sector can support India's already impressive growth in the next years.

The study is available through the link below:
DB Research: India's capital markets: Unlocking the door to future growth (PDF english, DBR)
DB Research: India's capital markets: Unlocking the door to future growth (PDF english, local source)

Matthias Wallisch, doctoral candidate at Institute of economic geography at Munich's LM university began to explore investment patterns of Business Angels. TSSF is facilitator of the research project.

Are Germany's SMEs an endangered species ? DB Research states: The succession gap in Germany's Mittelstand (small and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs) is overstated. Attractive businesses have no difficulty finding new owners these days.

However, with succession solutions outside the proprietor families on the increase, the successful, typically German (family) business structure could start to crumble. Might this also impair the German Mittelstand's business capital, high flexibility coupled with organically evolved trust? In the long term many SMEs are looking at a bright future. Crucial to this, besides the efficient organisation of generation change, are new forms of cooperation and modern financing instruments. A better political environment for business start-ups and a more open-minded attitude to the immigration of business talent would strengthen the entrepreneurial landscape as a whole.

The link to DB Research's complete study is available through the links below (english and german version available):
DB Research: Germany's SMEs an endangered species ? (PDF english, DBR)
DB Research: Germany's SMEs an endangered species ? (PDF german, DBR
DB Research: Germany's SMEs an endangered species ? (PDF english, local source)
DB Research: Germany's SMEs an endangered species ? (PDF german, local source)

Hanseyachts AG, producer of sailings yachts, located in northern germany and lead by America's Cup sailor Michael Schmidt, was going public.

DB Research: Venture capital in Europe - Spice for European economies

In it's October 2006 @conomics publication, DB Research presented an analysis of the european venture capital scene. Europe in general is catching up the gap to the US venture capital investment where germany is far behind the european leaders united kingdom, denmark and sweden. Those three countries are even above the US average in relation to the countries size (per ecent of GDP) while Germany's VC investments are only half the european average. Also Norway and Portugal are above the european average. Switzerland and the Netherlands reached the average. DB Research presumes (besides cyclical factors) the differences between european countries to be driven by fundamental facts like regional location conditions and differences in opportunity-driven entrepreneurial spirit.

The document is available through the link below:
Venture capital in Europe - Spice for European economies (PDF english, DBR)
DB Research: Venture capital in Europe - Spice for European economies (PDF english, local source)
DB Research: Venture capital in Europe - Spice for European economies (PDF german, local source)