A joint venture is a contractual agreement joining together two or more businesses in which each agrees to share profit‚ loss‚ and control in a specific enterprise. While a joint venture might seem similar to a partnership‚ there is one key difference that sets them apart. Members of a partnership have joined together to run a “business in common‚” while members of a joint venture have joined together for a particular purpose or project (Ward 1). The joint venture in our case is between Hangzhou
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Case study 1 Better Fitness‚ Inc. (BFI)‚ manufactures exercise equipment at its plant in Freeport‚ Long Island. It recently designed two universal weight machines for the home exercise market. Both machines use BFI-patented technology that provides the user with an extremely wide range of motion capability for each type of exercise performed. Until now‚ such capabilities have been available only on expensive weight machines used primarily by physical therapists. At a recent trade show‚ demonstrations
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investment in ● (the "Company"). Investment 1 You have told us that the proposed business plan calls for an equity injection of £● . Of this amount‚ funds managed by us (the "Funds") will provide £● alongside investment by other venture capital funds or financial institutions (together the "Investors"). We will act as lead equity investor. 2 The investment will be at a fully diluted pre-money valuation of £● ‚ including employee share options (both granted or committed) equal to
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No Experience ICS Volunteer Jobs in Uganda at Balloon Ventures (BV) Position Title ICS Volunteer (Several No Experience Jobs) Employer- Organization; Balloon Ventures (BV) Duty Station; Kampala/ Uganda Reporting to; ICS Programme Coordinator About Balloon Ventures; Balloon Ventures (BV) is a rapidly growing UK based social enterprise founded in 2011. Balloon Ventures (BV) run enterprise programmes in Africa & Asia th-at provide training & funding t/o entrepreneurs f4r th-e entire business journey
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2. What kind of entrepreneurial venture is Nau? Samaan thinks it’s a social entrepreneurial venture and that it’s a team of entrepreneurs that are in it to win it. The mentioned company was the partnership firm between the topnotch designers from well-known companies. The individuals were carrying the same basic idea‚ the business knowhow and finally dreamt of an organization of their own which would let then showcase their personal skills and knowledge. Nau sells expensive outdoor-type clothing
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Indorama ventures is a public limited company with a leading profile in the worlds largest petrochemical producers and one of the words leading manufacturer of wool yarns. It is the largest polyester fibre producer in Thailand. It’s products serves major players in the consumer markets including food‚ beverages‚ personal and home care‚ health care‚ automotive‚ textile and industrial. (Revenue) Since they are best at producing petrochemical and manufacture wool yarns world-wide‚ they have three major
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the idea profitable. The reward for the risks taken is the potential economic profits the entrepreneur could earn. There is a large literature devoted to the study of entrepreneurshipi n economics and related disciplines. The origin of the studies of entre-preneurship is the mature market economy. Jo-seph Schumpeter (1934) pioneered studies of entrepreneurs‚ writing that entrepreneursa re in-novators integrating resources in production for the marketplace. William J. Baumol (1968) and Harvey Leibenstein
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(3-1) Greene Sisters has a DSO of 20 days. The company’s average daily sales are $20‚000. What is the level of its accounts receivable? Assume there are 365 days in a year. AR = $400‚000 (3-2) Vigo Vacations has an equity multiplier of 2.5. The company’s assets are financed with some combination of long-term debt and common equity. What is the company’s debtratio? D/A = 60% (3-3) Winston Washers’s stock price is $75 per share. Winston has $10 billion in total assets. Its balance sheet shows
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ASPECTS OF FINANCIAL by William A. Sahlman‚ CONTRACTING IN Harvard Business School VENTURE CAPITAL INTRODUCTION During much of the 1960s and 1970s‚ academic discussions of corporate capital structure routinely began with the assumption that a firm’s financing decisions had no material effect on its intrinsic economic value. Setting aside tax consequences and the possibility of a costly bankruptcy‚ the value of the firm was assumed to depend solely on the level and risk of a firm’s operating
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Chapter 15 -- Closing Case General Electric’s Joint Ventures -- Case Discussion Questions 1. GE used to prefer acquisitions or greenfield ventures as an entry mode rather than joint ventures. Why do you think this was the case? Acquisitions were thought to be more cost effective and less risky. With GE having total control‚ they did not have to worry about the internal problems of the company and could enhance coordination all the while gaining immediate market share. 2. Why do you think that
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