Excerpt from Equity Investments, Venture Capital, and the Federal Role in the Availability of Financing for High-Technology Companies Mr. Wetzel. Good morning, sir. My name is Bill Wetzel. I am director of the Center for Venture Research, at the University of New Hampshire. We have been plowing around in this field for about 15 years now. My remarks are going to depart substantially from some of the recommendations and testimony you have heard earlier in the course of the last three hearings. I have prepared written testi mony; and, consequently, what I am going to try and do, at your suggestion, is hit only some of the highlights and do it in rather conversational form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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From nineteenth-century whaling to a multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture finance reflects a deep-seated tradition in the deployment of risk capital in the United States. Tom Nicholas’s history of the venture capital industry offers a roller coaster ride through America’s ongoing pursuit of financial gain.