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MicroBits: Unleash Small Business, PIPE Performance, Seed-
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January 28, 2011
By Josh Levine

Want more jobs? Unleash small businesses, venture capital and technology
[LINK -- http://blogs.forbes.com/markpmills/2011/01/28/want-more-jobs-unleash-
small-businesses-venture-capital-and-technology/]
In his Energy Intelligence blog, Mark P. Mills says success stories from Microsoft to
Apple to Google make certain things about job creation apparent: 1) The government
didn’t create those companies — or any others; 2) Wealth creation is anchored
in technology progress, and 3) Our salvation will come from small businesses. An
estimated 75%-plus of all national net job growth comes from small businesses.
He concludes that if you want to find a million new jobs, 100 big corporations are
quite unlikely to each add 10,000 to their payrolls — but 10,000 new businesses will
almost certainly each employ 100 people. If we want more jobs we need to create an
environment that unshackles daring souls who build new companies.

2010 PIPE Peformance Tables From PlacementTracker [LINK -- http://
www.sagientresearch.com/]
Placement Tracker reported a significant decrease in the aggregate dollar amount of
sub-$50 million market cap companies completing deals. In 2009 there were 583 deals
for $6.5 billion, dropping off to 509 deals for only $3.1 billion this year. While the overall
market dollar amount of the PIPE market remained at the $39 billion level in 2009 and
2010, the decrease in the nanocap space was negated by the large uptick in the $100
million to $300 million market cap issuers.

Outlook For Seed-Stage Investing [LINK -- http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/01/
04/whats-the-2011-outlook-for-seed-stage-investing/]
There’s a growing interest by institutional LPs in the micro-cap VC space (defined as
under $100 million in size) with a focus on being in the first-round seed investment
of a start-up, according to Michael Kim, managing director of Cendana Capital. In this
interview, he describes an emerging ecosystem in which micro-cap VCs lead with initial
financing to provide a 12-18 month runway before traditional Series A investors arrive
on the scene.

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