11.   She concedes some loans have been revisited since the stock market plummeted in April and venture money in realms like e-tailing dried up.

12.   Startups use the venture money to develop, market and sell products.

13.   Still, not every fast-growing company rushes to get venture money.

14.   Stig Leschly, founder of Exchange.com, for instance, raised venture money in less than six weeks.

15.   The increasing availability of venture money has helped charge entrepreneurial activity in Austin.

16.   Venture money has been flowing more generously into medical and science deals than to other fields for a few quarters now.

17.   Where some venture firms put money into companies after only cursory research, Romney wanted Bain to bring deep expertise to its financial bets.

18.   While the most hard-up startups are scrambling to raise capital, entrepreneurs who can get by without venture money are doing so.