Sunday, March 4, 2012

INVESTING IN WOMEN IN BUSINESS.(BUSINESS)

Byline: MARLENE KENNEDY

Robin Prever grew up believing she one day could be president.

That was the figurative if not literal life lesson from her father -- to think big.

So Prever, former chief executive officer of Saratoga Beverage Group Inc. in Saratoga Springs, doesn't blanch at the benchmark she has set for herself as a venture capitalist: a $200 million-plus fund providing so-called growth or expansion capital to woman- and minority-owned businesses. She's part of a new trend in venture financing in which female fund managers seek to help women business owners.

Those efforts are taking many shapes, from the Women's Technology …

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