For Germany it’s nothing ventured. . . . (Venture capital operations in West Germany.)

You can get venture capital in Germany, if you don't need it very much.

You can get venture capital in Germany, if you don’t need it very much.

Germans know that their country needs venture capital. They worry about it. But they worry still more at the thought that capital might seriously have to be ventured.

Only in the last twelve months have number of venture capital companies begun operations. Even now, banker say at doubt whether the capital will be directed to entrepreneurs who are in the process of establishing new companies.

The latest development is a bill, being discussed in the Bundestag, which will legalise the public issue of shares in holding companies that have stakes in unlisted firms.

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