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Nationwide, angels invested $9.1 billion in the first half of the year, down 27 percent from the amount they invested in the first half of 2008, according to the University of New Hampshire Center for Venture Research.

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The New Hampshire High Tech Council has grown its popular Speed Venture Summit, drawing in $20,000 in corporate sponsorship, 50 participating companies and a groundswell of support, according to its producer, Tim Platt...

Jeffrey Sohl, head of the Center for Venture Research Institute at the Whittemore School of Business at the University of New Hampshire, released a year-end report citing a 26.2 percent decline in angel investment in the United States in 2008, down from $26 billion to $19.2 billion.

Over 300 entrepreneurs, event sponsors and service providers are expected to gather on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at The Omni Hotel in New Haven for the Third Innovation Pipeline Awards... The keynote speech was presented by Jeffrey Sohl, Director of the Center for Venture Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.

New research from the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire...The research is presented in the working paper "Initial Public Offerings and Pre-IPO Shareholders: Angels Versus Venture Capitalists." The research was conducted by Jeffrey Sohl, director of the UNH Center for Venture Research and professor of entrepreneurship and decisions sciences at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, and William Johnson, assistant professor of finance at the Whittemore School.

Don't Let Angel Investors Bedevil You

Original Publication Date: 07/28/2009Forbes.com - There are more than 260,000 angel investors in the U.S. According to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, these helpers invested $19.2 billion in 55,480 companies in 2008, down 26% from the year before. Venture capitalists, by comparison, invested $28.1 billion in 3,630 companies, down just 10% from 2007.

Many firms turned to equity financing during the downturn to make up for their cash shortage. That solution can help keep a business afloat, but each time this type of funding is raised, a company must be appraised, says Jeffery Sohl, the director of the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research. If owners revaluate their companies when values are lower, they may have to hand over more ownership in the company because the same amount of money buys more when values sink, he says.

Inc.com - Angel investors are spending less, but are just as interested in funding new ventures as ever, according to the 2008 Angel Market Analysis released by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire..."We expected the dollars to go down," says Jeffrey Sohl, director of the UNH Center for Venture Research, "but our report indicates that while angels are putting less money in, they are still investing."

Nashua Telegraph - According to a report by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, the total value of angel investments dropped in 2008 by 26.2 percent from 2007, but the number of deals was relatively unchanged, with 55,480 entrepreneurial ventures receiving funding - 2.9 percent less than the 57,120 total ventures in 2007.

UNH Media Relations - Angel investments dropped in 2008 by 26.2 percent over 2007, but the number of deals was relatively unchanged, with 55,480 entrepreneurial ventures receiving funding, according to the 2008 Angel Market Analysis released by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

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New York Times - Entrepreneurs had a harder time getting angel funding to get their start-up idea off the ground last year, according to a new report from the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. In 2008, angel investors funded young companies at the same pace as they did the year before, but they invested significantly less in each start-up.

Fosters.com - A.R. Venkatachalam, a University of New Hampshire economics professor, said there are more benefits than just cost savings in green construction.

News Leader - Akin to post-traumatic stress disorder, symptoms can also include anger toward management, health problems and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. Unlike survivor's guilt, which is more fleeting, this syndrome can persist and be more serious, says Barry Shore, who coined the term.

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The Washington Times - ...The University of New Hampshire, meanwhile, has identified a distinct "post-downsizing stress syndrome" among those who have managed to keep their jobs in a time of widespread layoffs.

Fosters.com - Listen up, all of you who still have jobs. If you're feeling crabby, overworked, suspicious of management and view your co-workers as competitors you're probably exhibiting symptoms of "survivor guilt." This is normal, and odds are you'll snap out of it.

But if your behavior turns into a general hopelessness that starts to affect your entire life, watch out! You could have PDSS or Post Downsizing Stress Syndrome.

Indystar.com - The latest round of layoffs swept through your office and you're still standing. You should feel good -- you have a paycheck, your work is valued, you survived! Instead, you're irritable, can't concentrate, hate your job. . . . What gives? ...Akin to post-traumatic stress, symptoms can also include anger toward management, health problems and a pervasive sense of hopelessness.

Hippopress.com - Barry Shore is a professor of decision sciences at the University of New Hampshire. Shore looks at the "Miracle on the Hudson," as the Jan. 15 crash of US Airways Flight 1549 has come to be known, as a product of training and follow-through in decision-making. Shore and his students examine how managers in a variety of fields make decisions.

Newswise - The nation has been mesmerized by the miraculous outcome of U.S. Airways Flight 1549. ...According to Barry Shore, professor of decision sciences at the University of New Hampshire, the most important factors in the successful outcome of Thursday's crisis were training and skills of those involved with the rescue effort that allowed them to quickly weigh their options and make the best decisions possible.

Media Relations - ...The UNH Whittemore School of Business and Economics students will welcome John Heim of Bedford, NH, as an honorary member of the Entrepreneurial Venture Creation Class of 2009 on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008. The festivities begin at 2 p.m. at Carlyle Place, 40 Route 101, Bedford...The course was created in 2000 by Jeff Sohl, professor of decisions sciences and director of the Center for Venture Research, and Ross Gittell, James R.