Hazards of publicly quoted venture capital and private equity operations

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Wouldn’t it be great if you were an early investor in technology start-ups that are now the new internet titans, such as, Google and Facebook.

Maybe, the new generation of crowd funding platforms will provide the ordinary investor with a chance to bag a few millions!

Have you ever wondered why the only multi-millionaires and billionaires that are created from IPO’s are the entrepreneurs and the Venture Capital (VC) or Private Equity (PE) groups?

And what about those small investors in early start-ups like family, friends and small angel investors? How have they done?  Are they still working 9 – 5 to earn a living?

With the incursion of crowd funding operations into the venture capital and commercial lending space, this may be an opportune time to examine the hazards and rewards to the small investor from participating in such high risk investments.

Crowd funding platforms typically screen investors so that…

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