Average Age:

Average Annual Income:

Average Net Worth:

Average Individual Investment per Venture:

Investment “Hit Rate”:

47 years old

$90,000

$750,000

$37,000

1 out of 10 deals

59%

43%

Source: Investor Pitches

Per Capita 34th

Dollar Share & Deal Share ~0.24% - 0.27%

1. The Private Company Flexibility and Growth Act• Small company shareholders 500 1,000.

2. The Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act• Loosens SEC regulations for “crowdfunding.”

3. The Small Company Capital Formation Act• Easier for small businesses to go public.

4. The Access to Capital for Job Creators Act• Advertise to solicit investors.

5. The Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act

• Reduces the cost of going public.

6. The Capital Expansion Act• Community bank shareholders 500 2,000.

Twitter backed by DST, Mail.ru and JP Morgan

Violin Memory backed by Toshiba and Juniper

Square backed by Visa, Starbucks

Xoom backed by SVB Financial Group

Dropbox backed by Goldman Sachs

Arista Networks founded by Bechtolsheim, Cheriton, and Duda

Box backed by SAP Ventures and Salesforce

Marin Software backed by SAP Ventures

Kabam backed by Intel Capital, Warner Bros and MGM

Opower backed by General Electric

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2.7% of private-sector firms in South Carolina

contributed 66.8% of all net employment gains

from 2004-2008

Key Issues

Capital Markets Gap

Business Environment

Recommended Initiatives

Direct financial incentives

More formalized Business Network

(i.e. strengthen the ecosystem)