| For many entrepreneurs with a few successful | | | | Offering seed capital to start ups with a good idea |
| projects under their belt, the idea of doing another | | | | can be very lucrative if the opportunities are |
| long term project may all seem like too much trouble. | | | | assessed well. An entrepreneur already has keen |
| A skilled and experienced entrepreneur can make a | | | | insights and understanding of what private investors |
| very good passive income retiring from the business | | | | require to engage in a project and so can use that |
| of manufacturing successful company's and go on to | | | | knowledge to make decisions about projects that |
| make their money work for them by venture | | | | come across their desk. |
| investing. | | | | For the right project a venture capital investor can |
| Most investors are resigned to their fate in the single | | | | invest as little as $10,000 and get a 100% return per |
| digit annual returns of the stock market or the | | | | year or even more in the form of capital appreciation |
| banking sector where their money is relatively safe | | | | of the business as it develops. This on top of the |
| for the long term but so are they safe from large | | | | actual promised returns for the loan of the money, it |
| and rapid wealth. A venture investor on the other | | | | can be extremely lucrative. Venture capitalists will |
| hand has the knowledge, tools and skills to get much | | | | typically seek to secure some or all of their |
| more aggressive returns investing in start up | | | | investment against the assets purchased for the |
| company's, some of which could be the new | | | | business and in this way can hedge some of the risk |
| microsoft or walmart of the 21st century. | | | | involved in investing in a start up. |