Your main problem will be liquidity - you'll have to find people who care enough to throw in some money. Maybe you could start by setting up something like htt

Your main problem will be liquidity - you'll have to find people who care enough to throw in some money. Maybe you could start by setting up something like http://intrade.com http://intrade.com. First you just let people bet on whether a company would succeed or not by some metric. If you get enough people interested and knowledgeable about the companies you're dealing with, maybe you could lead that into funding.