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Venture Capital is defined as the form of high risk and high profit investment capital growing the small and medium enterprises to competitive ones through capital and management support and collecting the capital. Korean venture capitals specialize business and regional areas instead of diversified investments. This paper investigates the time series analysis using Venture Capital's investment information. The VARMAX model has a convergent representation with the pairs of impulse and responses. The major results of this study are as follows. The sample can be classified into two groups: venture capital-backed firms and nonventure capital-backed firms. In KOSDAQ IPOs market, venture capital could not reduce the information asymmetry between investors and issuing firms. The internal management and operational system of venture capital should be strengthened by quality to that of global venture capital firms.

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing performance of internal and external characteristics in the rural entrepreneurial enterprise. This model tests various theoretical research hypotheses relating to rural enterprise, internal characteristics(entrepreneurial innovativeness, organizational culture), external characteristics(business environment, government support). Questionnaires have been collected during one month 2011 and a total of 110 has been considered valid. SPSS 18.0 have been utilized for deriving the study results. The results of hypothesis testing are as follows. First, entrepreneurial innovativeness positively influence financial and social performance. Second, organizational culture positively influence financial and social performance. Third, business environment positively influence financial performance. Finally, government support positively influence social performance.

A start-up is formed to create a new organization that does not exist. During preliminary planning, successful entrepreneurs make final decisions after comprehensively reviewing all of their personnel, network relationships and evaluating their personal abilities in order to create a successful entrepreneurship. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of a given entrepreneur's social capital on entrepreneurial intention and the recognition of a business opportunity. The entrepreneur's social capital consists of three components: a structural dimension, a relational dimension and a cognitive dimension. The structural dimension is divided into a network of “strong ties” and “weak ties”. The relational dimension is defined as the trust between the entrepreneur and the respective start-up’s team members. The cognitive dimension is defined as a shared vision between the entrepreneur and his start-up team members. In this study, multiple regression analysis was conducted for hypothesis testing. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: Firstly, in the analysis of the relationship between the entrepreneur's social capital and his or her entrepreneurial intention, a network of weak ties has a significantly positive effect on entrepreneurial intention whereas a network of strong ties has been shown to have little effect. When analyzing the relationship between an entrepreneur's social capital and the respective business opportunity, strong ties and weak ties - in respect to the structural dimension - have a significantly positive effect on business opportunity recognition – with the weak ties having a more significant impact than the strong ties. On the other hand, it is apparent that the relational dimension and cognitive dimension do not have a strong effect on business opportunity recognition. An entrepreneurs' social capital, as shown by the results of this study, affects the entrepreneur's intentions, which, in turn, determine the makeup of the start-up business in its early stages and the recognition of business opportunities which were founded to create a new value at the beginning of the venture. This study suggests that entrepreneurs are more likely to achieve success in their start-up businesses through social networks based on information from the environment in addition to having a well-organized start-up team.

In this study, factors affecting university students' intention for new business start-ups were explored focusing on external affecting factors. Data for this study were collected by the survey on university students who are strongly interested in new business start up, and analyzed by structural equation modeling. From the result, factors of social atmosphere admiring successful entrepreneurs, university culture supporting new business start-ups, and perception of the value of new business startups significantly affected students' exploring activities for new business start-up, and in turn these independent and mediating factors affected students' intention for new business startups. The design of education program and supporting activities promote students' start-ups in universities need to reflect the results of this study.