The Venture Capital Choice for Entrepreneurs, to Grow or not to Grow, in New York City June 4

NEW YORK - May 29, 2013 - PRLog -- The most pressing issues (and glowing successes) raising venture capital money will be debated at Venture Capital Happy Hour (http://www.vchappyhour.com/) (http://www.VCHappyHour.com), on June 4, 6:00pm. Visionaries, investors and advisors of the next Facebook, Google and Groupon are invited to join Venture Capital Happy Hour (http://www.vchappyhour.com/), organized by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net/) (http://www.goldennetworking.net), great opportunities for practitioners to speak with unprecedented candidness about their trade, both opportunities and challenges.

Venture capital (VC) is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as biotechnology, IT, software, etc. The typical venture capital investment occurs after the seed funding round as growth funding round (also referred to as Series A round) in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event, such as an IPO or trade sale of the company. Venture capital is a subset of private equity. Therefore, all venture capital is private equity, but not all private equity is venture capital.

Venture capital, as an industry, has originated in the United States, and American firms have traditionally been the largest participants in venture deals, and the bulk of venture capital has been deployed in American companies. However, increasingly, non-US venture investment is growing, and the number and size of non-US venture capitalists have been expanding. Venture capital has been used as a tool for economic development in a variety of developing regions. In many of these regions, with less developed financial sectors, venture capital plays a role in facilitating access to finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which in most cases would not qualify for receiving bank loans.

Venture Capital Happy Hour (http://www.vchappyhour.com/), featured in The New York Times, is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net/) (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net/) by sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net