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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The possible impact of university corruption on customers’ ethical standards Merlin Stone1 and Michael Starkey2 Correspondence: Merlin Stone‚ The Customer Framework‚ Lily Hill House‚ Lily Hill Road‚ Ascot RG12 2SJ‚ UK. E-mail:merlin.stone@thecustomerframework.com 1is Head of Research at The Customer Framework. He is author or co-author of many articles and 30 books on customer management. The UK’s Chartered Institute of Marketing listed him in 2003 as one of the world’s top 50 marketing thinkers
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Essay March 11‚ 2013 Capital Punishment The term “capital punishment” is a little bit misleading‚ because it is a euphemism for “death penalty”‚ but there is also an opinion that the infliction of death is not and cannot be punishment. What indeed is the death penalty? On 10th of October 2010 for the eighth time there was the World Day against the Death Penalty. During the opening ceremony the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek said: "Death can not be seen as a form of justice
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Report on Capital Budgeting Abstract This report deals with • The nature of capital investment appraisal • The techniques available for evaluating capital investments • The limitations of these techniques • The capital budgeting practices in select countries Introduction: Some of the major responsibilities of top management are in the area of long range planning. Allocating resources to competing uses is one of the most important decisions a manager has to make. Executives are constantly
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”CAPITAL PUNISHMENT” Understandings of justice differ in every culture‚ as cultures are usually dependent upon a shared history‚ mythology‚ and religion. Each culture’s ethics create values which influence the notion of justice. Although there can be found some justice principles that are one and the same in all or most of the cultures. In this topic‚ i won’t tell you about justice in details‚ but i’ll give you an example of justice in laws‚ one of them is “Capital Punishment”. Capital Punishment
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Capital punishment‚ also known as death penalty is a “legal enforced deprivation of life based on a court decision; a lawful infliction of the extreme penalty on a person convicted of a grave offense. The morality of this practice is the subject of public debate‚ in which philosophical and ethical arguments play an essential role” (Nikolaichev‚ B. O). The issue of capital punishment can be a sensitive issue to approach on the grounds that individuals view it differently. American citizens are split
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CAPITAL BUDGETING MEANING OF CAPITAL BUDGETING Capital budgeting is the making of long term planning decision for investment fixed assets and their financing. Capital budgeting decision is concerned with current investment that will pay for itself and yield an acceptable rate of return over its life span. Hampton (1992) defines capital budgeting as the decision making process by which firms evaluate the purchase of major fixed assets‚ including buildings‚ equipment. It also covers decisions to
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the investment‚ the more return investors want from that investment. Using the same example as above‚ assume the first investment opportunity is a government bond that will pay interest of 5% per year and the principle and interest payments are guaranteed by the government. Alternatively‚ the second investment opportunity is a bond issued by small company and that bond also pays annual interest of 5%. Virtually all investors would buy the government bond the first is less risky while paying the same
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Checks and balances is a system put in place so that no one branch of government can dominate the other and no one branch can abuse the power they possess. There are three branches of government. The first branch of government is the executive branch which is in charge of the military‚ vetoing bills‚ managing the budget‚ etc. The second branch of government is the legislative branch which is in charge of ratifying laws‚ composing bills‚ and representing the general public‚ etc. The third branch of
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Kaylinn Hillis Research Paper 4/14/2014 Capital Punishment What is the purpose of being punished? We take our lead from one major source‚ our parents‚ and they take their lead from their own parents. When your young child imitates what he or she just saw on an animated movie‚ you give them a stern lecture about what is real and what is not‚ and what is acceptable in real life and what is not. When your child tries some crazy acrobatic move off a piece of furniture and hurts themselves‚ you might
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