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Term "target company" used in this survey stands for a potential portfolio company.
You are invited to participate in our survey Risk Capital Availability in Lithuania. In this survey, conducted by Lithuanian non-profit organization Social and Economic Development Centre (see more at www.sepc.lt) approximately 50 companies, selected from public European Venture Capital Association database (www.evca.com) will be asked to complete a survey that asks questions about the overall nature of their private equity investments, past and prospect investments in Lithuania. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete the questionnaire.

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary. There are no foreseeable risks associated with this project. However, if you feel uncomfortable answering any questions, you can withdraw from the survey at any point. It is very important for us to learn your opinions. As a consultancy company, we advice Lithuanian entrepreneurs about different alternatives to finance their business. Upon your reply to this survey and regarding to your intentions towards investing in Lithuanian economy, we will return to you with the proposals from Lithuanian entrepreneurs.

Your survey responses will be strictly confidential and data from this research will be reported only in the aggregate. Your information will be coded and will remain confidential. If you have questions at any time about the survey or the procedures, you may contact Mindaugas Butkus at +37068618732 or by email [email protected]

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Firm title
   
Preferrence of investment term
   
Preferrence of exit strategy (IPO, MBO, sale to strategic investor)
   
 
 
 
Please give a few reasons why your preferrence of exit is such as specified in the above question
   
 
 
3. 
* Type of firm / investor
Venture capital (VC) fund Venture capitalist Business Angel Private equity fund (excluding VC) Other (please, specify)  
 
 
 
What is approximate share (%) of high tech companies in your portfolio?
   
 
 
 
5. Approximately rank the degree of preferred involvement in management of a target company (provision of managerial and technical expertise)
Weak (no involvement in management)
Moderate (some control, cunsulting, providing network relations)
High (high control, sitting on board)
Very high (ability to replace management)
 
 
6. 
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
The strength of current management team of the target company affects our choice to invest
 
 
7. 
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
You are more likely to invest in a profitable company than in problematic company with turnaround intentions
 
 
8. 
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
You do not invest with turnaround intentions in a company which underperfoms
 
 
9. 
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
When investing in a company with past record, you only invest in companies, which have financial ratios that are close to industry standard
 
 
10. 
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
The transparency of financial reports of a traget company (e. g. meeting the International Accounting Standards) is a necessary factor.
 
 
11. 
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
Your company has not been investing in Lithuania, because the market / economy is too small
 
 
12. 
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
Your company has not been investing in Lithuania, because there has not been any indication of interest from Lithuanian entrepreneurs
 
 
13. 
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
It seems to you, that there is no entrepreneurial culuture in Lithuania and there is lack of innovative business activity
 
 
 
14. How many proposals have you received to invest in Lithuania / in Lithuanian companies?
   
 
 
 
How many proposals have you received to invest in Latvia / in Latvian companies?
   
How many proposals have you received to invest in Estonia / in Estonian companies?
   
How many proposals have you received to invest in Eastern Europe / Eastern European companies?
   
 
 
16. 
Have you made any investments in Lithuania / Lithuanian companies?
Yes No
 
 
17. 
Have you considered investing in Lithuania / in Lithuanian companies in the past?
Yes No Other  
 
 
18. 
Do you have any short term plans to invest in Lithuania / Lithuanian companies?
Yes No Other  
 
 
19. 
Is it likely that it is more difficult to exit an investment in Lithuanian than in other EU countries?
Likely Only more difficult than Western EU countries Unlikely Other  
 
 
20. 
Overall, it is more difficult to exit an equity investment in Eastern European (developing) countries than in Western European countries
Yes No Other  
 
 
21. 
Have favourable conclusions in Lithuanian Investment Climate Assesment (World Bank Report 2005) affected you decision to invest or not invest in Lithuania based companies?
Yes No Other comments  
 
 
22. 
Would you be interested in receiving proposals to invest in Lithuania based companies?
Yes No Other  
 
 
 
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