Authors: Armin Schwienbacher & Benjamin Larralde CROWDFUNDING OF SMALL ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES Book chapter forthcoming in Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance (Oxford University Press) Date: September 28‚ 2010 (final version) Armin Schwienbacher‚ Professor of finance‚ Université Lille Nord de France‚ Faculté de Finance‚ Banque et Comptabilité‚ Rue de Mulhouse 2 - BP 381‚ F - 59020 Lille Cédex (France); +33 3 20 90 75 34 ; armin.schwienbacher@univ-lille2.fr. SKEMA Business School‚ Avenue Willy
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Welcome Course - Innovation and New Business Ventures Dr R.K. Sharma MsM Adjunct Faculty Presenter - RK Sharma Course Elements Class Lecture and Interactions Case Studies Informal Discussions Independent Reading Student Presentations/ Assignment Exam (Closed Book/ Closed Handout/ Open Mind) Recommended Books : (depending upon availability) Essentials of Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management‚ Norman Scarborough Essentials of Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management
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Chemical Company entered into a Joint Venture with State of Kuwait run Petrochemical Industries Company ("PIC"). “PIC” is a wholly owned subsidiary of State owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation ("KPC"). to launch K-Dow Petrochemicals‚ a planned joint venture. PIC was to have paid pay Dow $7.5 billion US dollars for its stake. The deal was approved by Kuwait’s Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC). The head of the SPC is the Prime Minister of Kuwait The venture was to manufacture and market polyethylene
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Funding a Business Venture Continuing with the scenario from Unit 1‚ you now need to make a management decision about how to fund your business. You have several options. You can borrow money‚ sell stock‚ or license the technology. Chose the type of funding which you prefer. Then‚ write a 2–3 page paper that reflects your decision-making analysis. In this paper‚ be sure to include the following: Using your own words (no quotations)‚ write a series of short paragraphs describing the meaning
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Venture Concepts Paper Krashanti Wyatt FIN/375- Financial Management in the Small Business 10/01/2012 Dr. Betty Ahmed Venture Concepts Paper Introduction The conceptual venture that I am going to start when I get all the resources that I need is Wyatt’s Liquor and Tobacco Store. At my store‚ customers will be able to purchase varieties of liquor‚ beer‚ wine‚ and tobacco products. The Wyatt’s Liquor and Tobacco Store will be the cheapest store around that customers will be able to purchase
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OF VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: SOME DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS 1. Introduction The development of metropolitan areas is likely to depend‚ among other things‚ on the development of their entrepreneurial communities. However‚ our understanding of entrepreneurial communities worldwide is limited. In the following chapter‚ we begin to fill this gap by providing data on the development of entrepreneurial communities around the globe. Moreover‚ we provide data on the diffusion of venture capital
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WORKING CAPITAL AND FIXED CAPITAL AND ITS ADVANTAGES Introduction: A firm requires funds to acquire two types of assets : fixed assets and current assets .Fixed assets include land biulding ‚ plant‚ and machinary ‚ vehicles ‚ equipment etc.These assets relatively permanent in nature and are necessary for carrying on the bussiness .Current assets ‚on the other hand ‚are kept for supporting day-to-day operations and keep changing during the course of the business.They liquidated within short period
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(including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable outcome). For my Project Work‚ I opted to choose the Singapore government’s decision in 2005 to build an Integrated Resorts which included 2 casinos as one example of risk-taking venture. I chose this topic because I believe the topic satisfies all the requirements of the task. Specifically‚ in 18 April 2005‚ Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced the cabinet’s decision to develop 2 casinos and associated hotels and malls in
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PART 1: VENTURE OPPORTUNITY‚ CONCEPT AND STRATEGY Question 1: Describe the opportunity that attracts you and why you think it is a new venture opportunity. Opportunity is a condition that can benefit or bring success to an emerging or established to be taken immediately. Opportunities are usually approaching a person in a state of vague and uncertain. Someone who is competent and willing only to be nabbed opportunities that exist in front of him. Slow grab the opportunity to escape to the hands
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In 1794‚ Eli Whitney invented a simple machine called the cotton gin. The main purpose of this machine was to automatically separate the cotton fibers from the seeds. Similar machines already existed for long-staple cotton‚ but they did not work with short-staple cotton. The basic concept was the same‚ using brushes to separate the two parts of the cotton. Whitney’s design‚ however‚ used spiked teeth to pull the fibers from the seed more effectively than previous machines. Whitney’s cotton gin only
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