If you’re looking for funding for your new business this year, you may look for angel investors or venture capital firms. 2011 was a particularly bad year for private investors like these but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have money to lend in 2012.
In order for angel investors to have seed capital for new corporations, they require ways to get money out of deals from the past. A feed back mechanism is required to maintain liquidity in the financing system.
A startup located in Seattle, Washington, is part of the rapidly growing online marketplace for specialty items. Bonanza.com obtained $1,000,000 of funding in 2010 from a group of angel investors plus three venture capital firms.