Venture capital (VC) is financial capital provided to early-stage‚ high-potential‚ high risk‚ growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in‚ which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries‚ such as biotechnology‚ IT‚ software‚ etc. The typical venture capital investment occurs after the seed funding round as growth funding round (also referred to as Series A round) in the interest of generating
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Understanding corporate value: managing and reporting intellectual capital Intellectual capital Contents 1 Introduction 4 2 Definitions of intellectual capital 6 2.1 2.2 Classifications of intellectual capital Why is intellectual capital so difficult to measure? 3 IC measurement 8 Generic models 3.1 Balanced scorecard 3.2 Performance prism 3.3 Knowledge assets map approach Individual company models 3.4 The Skandia navigator 3.5 Ericsson’s cockpit communicator
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Opportunities * Acquisitions * Asset leverage * Financial markets (raise money through debt‚ etc) * Emerging markets and expansion abroad * Innovation * Online * Product and services expansion * Takeovers Threats * Competition * Cheaper technology * Economic slowdown * External changes (government‚ politics‚ taxes‚ etc) * Exchange rate fluctuations * Lower cost competitors or imports * Maturing categories‚ products‚ or services * Price wars * Product substitution -------------------------------
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INTRODUCTION Venture capital‚ a financial innovation of the twentieth century‚ is a long-term liquid investment‚ which can be in the form of equity‚ quasi-equity and sometimes debt in new and high-risk ventures. Venture capital became better known after the famous legend of Apple Computers‚ which started out in the US in 1977 with the capital firm‚ Arthur Rock & Co. Apple Computers then made it to the Fortune 500 and Arthur Rock & Co. attained height in Venture capital industry. However the success
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My task is to find a car that is within my budget of $10000. I’m a 19 year old that works at Kotara full time earning $17.50/hr working 40 hours a week with a net income of $32‚ 841. I need to buy a car within my price range to make sure I can get to work on time. Kotara is approximately 20km away from home so driving to and from work will approximately be 40km a day. Working 5 days a week in total I will be travelling 200km. I choose a 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage Sport LA that costs $9‚990 because it
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Assignment 2 (a)Outline the main forms of flexibility as defined in Atkinson’s (1984) model of the flexible firm (b) What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Atkinson model? ANSWER PLAN: Introduction/Background o What are the aims of flexibility o Guest (1987) de-centralisation helps to create flexibility o What are the main forms of flexibility that modern organisation need Body: 4 types of flexibility o Functional/Temporal/Numerical/Financial Body 2: Atkinson’s
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BORN GLOBAL FIRMS The concept of Born Global Firms can be defined as various characteristics or various criteria since it was first introduced into business theory. It has been suggested that a Born Global Firms is a new firm which make at least one international sale to any new market within two years (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management‚ 2009). While there is another theory stated that Born Global Firms can be considered as early adopters of internationalization. Cavusgil and Knight
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Opportunities and challenges for the apparel industry in light of the rapidly growing online retail market Online retail is a game changer for the retail industry. The ease of shopping from the comfort of your home‚ free home delivery and the power to compare more options has attracted more and more consumers towards online retail. Let us focus on the Apparel e-tailing in particular. Apparel market in India is estimated at US$ 35 Bn in 2011 and is expected to grow to US$ 50 Bn by 2016‚ @ CAGR of
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blindly saying yes to everything is not such a good idea‚ it will open opportunities and also might put you in trouble‚ so It’s easy to see many plots in this movie are not gonna happen in our life‚ but it still give us an important idea‚ which is having a positive attitude to every opportunity can bring success to you. We couldn’t live like a yes man say yes to everything‚ but we can use the following skills to seize the opportunity‚ which are say “yes” more often‚ have a positive attitude ‚ take more
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Memo To: Beth Davies-Lowry‚ President of Intercoastal Electronics Company From: Student Date: February 20‚ 2011 Re: Budgeting Impacting Company’s Financial Statements Scope and Objective Intercoastal Electronics Company is excited about the upcoming year‚ and is ready to acquire new inventory equipment in order to process a streamline operation for their small‚ rapidly growing consumer electronics products base. The acquisition of new assets
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