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From Forbes.com

Forbes is on the hunt for tomorrow’s serious wealth creators.

• Take their survey by June 30 and find out if you’re one of them.
• Be sure to mark “McCombs” as the source that recommended the survey or email alumni@mccombs.utexas.edu to let us know you completed the survey.

How promising is your young business? The world wants to know.

That’s why Forbes.com is teaming with The Venture Alliance (TVA), a boutique investment adviser to early-stage companies, to identify America’s most promising companies.

Many company lists are based on but a few metrics (if that many). But that’s not remotely how professional investors evaluate the health and potential of any growing company. TVA has developed a scoring algorithm based on a vast range of variables that determine a company’s potential–and, ultimately, its worth to investors–including: financial projections, current capitalization, market position, market opportunity, intellectual property, management team and others. TVA crunches that data (which it collects by surveying young companies) and reduces it to one “fundability score.” Companies that score well, theoretically, have a better shot at raising money than those that don’t. Read more from Forbes.com.