venture capitalism
Risky investment business
Venture capitalism is the practice of investing in early-stage companies with high growth potential in exchange for equity.
Venture capitalists provide funding to startups that are too risky or unproven for traditional bank loans, hoping a few major successes will outweigh inevitable failures.
The term sometimes carries critical connotations, suggesting aggressive profit-seeking at the expense of workers or innovation: Critics accused the firm of venture capitalism run amok.
- riskPossibility of harm
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
- term sheetPreliminary deal conditions document
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
- exitWay to leave
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Communal economic control
communism · central planning · command economy · planned economy · state capitalism
venture capitalismdebt financing
Raising capital through borrowing
guaranteed returns · bank lending · mortgage lending · bonds · savings accounts
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