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Techno-Venture Forum/Business Seminar Series

Risk Capital and Technology Investment


Speaker : William Cate,
Managing Director: Beowulf Investments

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Date: 1 April 2002 (Monday)
Time: 3.00pm - 4.30pm (Light refreshments available from 4.30pm to 5.00pm)
Venue: Conference Room E, Level 4, FBA2 Building, Business School, NUS (Section E4)

Abstract
This lecture explores the importance of technology investing in distribution rather than startups. It argues that the Asian axiom "Engineered in the States and manufactured in Asia" must include a third phase "distributed everywhere." Leveraging risk capital is vital to reducing risk and enhancing profits. Governments are one source of leveraged capital. The purpose of these programs is to create local jobs. Two failed Canadian Government funding projects and the Singapore Super Fund will be used as examples. There are five general types of venture capitalists in North America. The lecture will explore their basic needs and goals. A simple math model will be used to compare the Venture Capitalist strategy against the Risk Capitalists approach.. And, there will be a discussion of the proposed goals for an International Joint Venture that meet both the Asian desire for jobs and the leveraged distribution model of the Risk Capitalists.
 
About the Speakers
Mr. William Cate has taught at several American colleges and universities including: The University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis University, Forest Park Community College and Miami Dade Junior College. He's been a speaker at most of the annual American investment conferences. He's a well-published American writer with articles appearing in many national financial newspapers and magazines. He's often quoted in articles on venture capital and equity markets. In 1981, he founded Beowulf Investments and remains its Managing Director. Beowulf Investment has been a consistently successful Risk Capital Fund. It operates on business principles that aren't found in tradition al textbooks on venture capital.
 
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend the talk. As there are limited number of seats available, please register for the talk via email to
Shannen (cetsoosk@nus.edu.sg)
with your name, designation and company/institution
(and email add if via fax),
by 28 March 2002. Please forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues who may be interested. Admission is free

 

 

 

 

 

 
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