Is It Still Called a Venture Fund When You Use Your Own Money?
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Halsey M. Minor, the founder of CNET, is now running his own, very private, investment fund.
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Investors are allowed to put the money in their I.R.A.âs in to almost anything, be it condominiums or airplanes. A growing number of people are doing just that.
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Technology giants are increasingly deciding that venture investing is not for them and not just because of the financial risk involved.
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Sometimes the simplest investing strategies are also the best. One example is investing in companies that have announced they are buying back their own stock.
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Ever wanted to develop your own useful and fully functional Google gadget but could not push through with your ideas due to  time and financial constraints? Google just answered your dilemma with the launch of Google Gadget Ventures, a pilot program that would distribute grants and seed investments to developers and users of Google [...]
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If you invest in mutual funds, sooner or later you'll likely turn--with relief--to a mutual fund "supermarket." These are virtual bazaars that offer one-stop shopping for several thousand funds from different families. Brokers like Schwab, E-Trade and TD Waterhouse, and the large fund shops like Fidelity, Vanguard and T. Rowe Price all offer them.
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Swarming to the next new thing Over the past four years, venture capitalists have tossed huge amounts of cash at "green-tech" startups. The green, er, field has become saturated with speculative funding, rivaling even the two mainstays of Valley vulture capitalists: IT and life sciences.â¦
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PORTLAND, Maine  - Some 93 million Americans own  shares of mutual funds, but many of these people have only  vague ideas of how they work. Here are some common questions  and the answers to them.
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Picking a winning stock fund is tricky. Once you've weighed a fund's portfolio, its management, its investment style and its trading habits, you might be tempted to rely on more old-fashioned methods, such as dart boards, Ouija boards and goat entrails instead.
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The requirements to start a hedge fund are pretty basic. You need a desk, a computer, and some rich clients to hand over lots of money to put at risk.
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People disagree about how companies should use excess cash.
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Venture capitalists have a pressing new question for high-tech entrepreneurs who come looking for money: What's your India plan?
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Investor's Business Daily - Don't confuse exchange traded funds with mutual funds. ETFs are passive instruments; they sit there fully paid into whatever sector they have defined: silver, China or transportation stocks, for instance.
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Cash is not trash, it's the basis for a successful financial life. Having some money stowed away for a rainy day will keep the tax bill, unexpected illness, or a broken appliance from stealing your peace of mind. Having an additional amount put away for a future stock market purchase is even better.
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Are you making this costly mistake with your investments?
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Hey, how come that hedge fund got a bailout and I didn't?
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Is the market for initial public offerings open or closed? Few questions loom larger for venture capital firms, which risk money on entrepreneurial companies and look for ''liquidity events&quot; that will help them recoup their investments. But more than at any other time in the recent past, the answer may depend on your vantage point.