<title/> Prior investigations have demonstrated that, under the assumption of unlimited available personal funds, the proportion of equity retained by the entrepreneur in a new venture is an indicator of the proposed project's quality. Signaling theory argues that this signal of quality can be used by...

<title/> Venture capital in most of Asia may be more accurately termed a private equity industry which focuses on funding mature firms in slow growth sectors of the economy rather than on funding start-ups. However, the venture capital industry in Singapore is becoming substantially different from that...