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Angel investing nationwide grew 12.1 percent to $22.5 billion in 2011, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Through the first six months of 2012 — the latest figures available — angel investment gained about 3.5 percent over prior year levels.
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Women-owned firms start and grow businesses with substantially less outside financing, according to a Department of Commerce survey of women-owned companies across the U.S. That helps to explain why the average women-owned business has 25% lower revenue than the typical male-owned firm in the same industry.
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DURHAM, N.H. – U.S. lodging executives were more optimistic about general business conditions in December than the prior month, according to the University of New Hampshire Lodging Executives Sentiment Index (LESI) for the current month ending December 2012. The index increased from 50.1 in November 2012 to 53.8 in...
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U.S. Angels put $9.2 billion to work in the first and second quarters of 2012, a 3.1% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to estimates by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. For all of 2012, the Center estimates that U.S. angel investment deals increased 3% and total...
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..."You're adding a whole layer of risk to an already very risky investment class," says Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. "With most of these investments, you're going to lose money."
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The Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at UNH invites businesses to submit corporate consulting projects to be completed by graduating MBA students.
As the capstone course for the MBA program, consulting projects should be challenging, with workloads set at a professional level. Student teams will work 40...
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The issues of succession often are challenging for family businesses. The UNH Center for Family Business will address this complex topic Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at the business event “The Five Key Issues in a Successful Family Business Succession.”
The program begins at 8:30 a.m. at New Hampshire Distributors, 65 Regional...
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On the bright side, interest rates on consumer loans could head lower as global investors retreat into cash and safe investments, including paradoxically U.S. Treasuries, says Michael Goldberg, Roland H. O'Neal professor at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.
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By STEPHEN J. CICCONE; IN the first three weeks or so of trading this year, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, a measure of the broad market, has climbed more than 4 percent — and on Jan. 18, in fact, closed at its highest level since December 2007. Last January, the S.&P. 500 rose 4.4 percent — a blistering...
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DURHAM, N.H. – U.S. lodging executives continue to be less optimistic about present general business conditions, according to the University of New Hampshire Lodging Executives Sentiment Index (LESI) for the current month ending November 2012. The index slipped from 56.3 in October 2012 to 50.1 in November 2012.
