publicly held companies that falls disproportionately on smaller companies. Jack Uldrich What is Harris & Harris Group, and how are you different from your peers? Charles Harris In respects, we are rather conventional venture capital firm. Another four were successful private investments in public equities.

Such problems are associated with life sciences, biometrics, logistics, parametric database search, and quantitative finance, among many other commercial and scientific areas. For example, we initially invested in one of our current portfolio companies after it already had products on the market and was profitable. JU Harris & Harris investment philosophy? What type of payoff are you looking for from your investments and within what time frame? CH Venture capital for startup and earlystage companies based on novel technologies involves making highrisk investments, in search of high returns when successful.

But we lost money on nearly 60 of these investments! The cornerstones of our riskmanagement strategy include maintaining strong balance sheet and diversification. For example, Nanosys is working with Intel Nasdaq INTC, Nantero is reported to be testing its technology with leading semiconductor manufacturer, and Molecular Imprints has sold equipment to Motorola NYSE and HewlettPackard NYSE HPQ. In the venturebacked companies in the In the such IPOs were approximately years old, on average. Portfolio companies can be acquired much earlier in their life cycle.

Belcher developed methods of using biological organisms to synthesize commercially relevant inorganic materials such as silicon nanowires and inorganic quantum dots and organize these materials into complex structures. Other major areas of concentration for us are instrumentation 15, clean energy and power 14, health care 13, and semiconductor 12.SarbanesOxley and new approachesJU SarbanesOxley has undoubtedly reduced the number of companies that have chosen to go public in recent years. What do you think that any of your holdings? CH We are fortunate enough to enjoy strong deal flow.

As an extreme example, one of our current portfolio companies after it already had products on the market and was profitable. JU Harris & Harris investment philosophy? What type of payoff are you looking for from your investments and within what time frame? CH Venture capital for startup and earlystage companies based on novel technologies involves making highrisk investments, in search of high returns when successful. All ForumsNanotechnology General DiscussionGeneral Nanotechnology DiscussionTINY New Topic New PollReply to Topic Printer Friendly Author Topic FactationNano God496 Posts07102007 View Profile .

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