The Pacific Venture Club began in 1987 as one of the first true venture capital clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. After reviewing thousands of projects and facilitating hundreds of entrepreneurs with resources such as investors, management team members, partners, and outside advisers, the Club shifted its operations in 2005. The Pacific Venture Club presently concentrates on managing, mentoring, and promoting entrepreneurs for investment, business development, partnering, and acquisition purposes. The Pacific Venture Club focuses primarily on pre-venture capital companies or projects seeking alternative funding sources such as private “angel” investors or corporate partners.
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
Here's a summary assessment of the HIRE Act for the entrepreneur.
There is no question in my mind that the Internet is the greatest resource ever invented for entrepreneurs who want to raise money from investors. Never have so many tools existed for entrepreneurs to locate investors. You can extend the premise of Chris Anderson’s famous book “The Long Tail” to include investors: for every project, every idea, no matter how unusual or niche-focused, there is somebody somewhere who will want to invest in it.
If you are an entrepreneur in a startup or growing company, I don't have to tell you that these are economically difficult times. Entrepreneurs have been hit from every financial front imaginable: the venture capital industry has been devastated, the decline in real estate has reduced home equity loans, and the banks themselves have teetered on the edge of the abyss. Even the consumer credit card industry, the last resort of financing for many entrepreneurs, has tightened up considerably. Many credit card companies have drastically slashed consumer credit as a means of protecting themselves. 
