Capitalists: Trendsetter Inc. TEACHING ENTREPRENEURIAL THOUGHT & ACTION 20 March 2012 Richard T. Bliss‚ PhD Trendsetter Inc. Learning Objectives 1. The entrepreneur/VC relationship 2. Exposure to deal term sheets 3. Moving beyond valuation 4. VC negotiations 2 The Entrepreneur/VC Relationship Entrepreneur VC 3 The Entrepreneur/VC Relationship • Provisions to address adverse selection − due diligence − staging/milestones − use of convertible preferred shares • Provisions to facilitate
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Negotiation Skills Case Study Mark is the assistant manager of a book store that is part of a national chain‚ and it is the week of Thanksgiving. He is one of the store’s six salaried employees‚ and the others are fulltime or part-time hourly employees. Besides Mark and the general manager‚ there is Dick‚ the other assistant manager‚ who is getting ready to accept a position elsewhere and who has the accumulated time to give notice at any minute. There are also two section leaders and one community
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MARKETING CONCEPTS Following are the six concepts of marketing • Production concept • Product concept • Selling concept • Marketing concept • Societal marketing concept • Holistic marketing concept THE PRODUCTION CONCEPT: DEFINITION BY KOTLER: “It is the idea that customers will favor products that are available and highly affordable and that the organization should therefore focus on improving production and distribution efficiency.” EXPLANATION: This concept is the
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A Discussion and Critical Evaluation on How Person-centred Theorists View Concepts of the Self Introduction As children grow they start to learn about themselves through their relationships with others and psychologists have evidenced how their ideas of themselves are significantly influenced by other people’s ideas and reactions to them. Dowling (2008) suggests that a child’s level of confidence is affected by their early experiences‚ successes and failures and it is recognised that a child’s
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one day and critically discuss how you are an actor in society; how you affect your social surroundings; and‚ how your daily life is shaped and constrained by society. This will allow you engage with many of the sociological concepts reviewed to-date including newer concepts such as impression management‚ stage theory and emotional labor. Explain why you needed to perform in such a way (i.e.‚ your motives‚ instincts‚ feelings‚ or structural constraints). Do you see who you are and where
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Marketing Concepts MAR110 Study Period 4‚ 2010 SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Research Report “Marketing’s really just selling with a posh name! What’s all this about a Marketing Concept?” EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This research report aims to depict if there is any truth to the statement “Marketing is just selling with a posh name...” it also aims to illustrate the marketing concept‚ which refers to the second half of the statement “ .....What’s all this about the marketing concept”
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Design concepts in architecture: the porosity paradigm Sotirios D. Kotsopoulos 129 Franklin Street‚ # 203‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts 02139‚ USA; e-mail: skots@alum.mit.edu Abstract: Presented is a paradigm of how a design concept can be converted into a system of production rules to generate designs. The rules are expressed by the means of shape grammar formalism. The paradigm demonstrates how porosity a concept transferred from biology‚ medicine and organic chemistry was implemented by architect
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Accounting Principles‚ Concepts and Conventions Accounting principles are guidelines & standards‚ which have been accepted by the accounting profession in preparation and presentation of accounts of the business. It is approved and normally accepted by the government bodies &controlling authorities. Accounting principles are uniform in order to understand in the same sense by those using it. Also they are not rigid (i.e. inflexible) like principle of gravity but they are flexible.
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Business Entity Concept Money Measurement Concept Going concern concept Accrual basis concept Consistency Concept Materiality and aggregation concept Concept on Prudence Matching Principle Dual Aspect Relevance Concept Introduction Financial accounting has a number of conservative laws which have been considered over the years and all the possible identifiable rules are: Business Entity Concept‚ Money Measurement Concept‚ Going concern Concept‚ Accrual basis of accounting concept‚ Consistency
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The Banking Concept of Education: Paulo Freire states “knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing” (139). He claims that in The Banking Concept of Education‚ the teachers treat the students as a bank in which they deposit information into them and the students never really get to think critically about the information they are learning. This method was widely used during the first twelve years of my formal education
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