{"id":3490,"date":"2005-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"vc-debt-firms-slam-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2005\/vc-debt-firms-slam-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"VC Debt Firms Slam Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/\">www.redherring.com<\/a> ) &#8211; <span class=\"articleDEK\">Venture debt firms aren\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t happy that hedge funds are encroaching on their turf by lending to high-tech  startups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Venture debt firms on Wednesday blasted hedge funds that are seeking to lend money to startups, saying the funds often dole out ill-advised loans to companies that may not be able to returnthe money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span><span>Venture debt firms, such as Silicon Valley Bank and Sand Hill Capital, make money by loaning money to startups to help them expand their operations without diluting  ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/Article.aspx?a=14068&amp;hed=VC+Debt+Firms+Slam+Hedge+Funds%EF%BF%BDor=Capital&amp;subsector=VentureCapital\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>( www.redherring.com ) &#8211; Venture debt firms aren\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t happy that hedge funds are encroaching on their turf by lending to high-tech startups. Venture debt firms on Wednesday blasted hedge funds that are seeking to lend money to startups, saying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}