Case Study: Adams Capital Management 1. Adams espouses a “market first” analysis of opportunity by looking for discontinuities. Is this substantive or window-dressing? Do the four types of discontinuities represent applicable guidelines? Are they comprehensive‚ or are there other discontinuity templates that a venture investor would find useful? 2. Analyze Structured Navigation. Is this a valid measurement of progress in early stage investing? Could such a program ever be a hindrance
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SMEs‚ FDI and capital market imperfections Wouter De Maeseneire∗ Erasmus University Rotterdam‚ The Netherlands PO Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 10 408 15 07 Fax: +31 10 408 91 65 email: demaeseneire@few.eur.nl Tine Claeys Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Reep 1 9000 Ghent Belgium Tel: +32 9 2109773 Fax: +32 9 2109751 Email: tine.claeys@vlerick.be ABSTRACT This paper aims at exploring the problems experienced by SMEs in gaining access to debt and equity finance for FDI
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Recommendations on Capital Markets Governance & Investor Protection 1 Recommendations 1. CAPITAL MARKETS – CHALLENGES‚ OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNOVATION During the discussion on Capital Markets – Challenges‚ Opportunities for Innovation‚ the experts suggested as under: Expand the retail investor base - For a developed Capital market‚ there is need to expand the participation of retail investor and also enhance the investor morale and domestic allocation. Following are the suggested
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Venture Capitalists on the Seed Stage Arena A Fit or Misfit Johan Adolfsson Avdelning‚ Institution Division‚ Department Datum Date 2003-06-03 Ekonomiska Institutionen 581 83 LINKÖPING Language Svenska/Swedish X Engelska/English Report category Licentiatavhandling Examensarbete C-uppsats X D-uppsats Övrig rapport ____ ISBN ISRN Ekonomprogrammet 2003/30 Serietitel och serienummer Title of series‚ numbering ISSN URL för elektronisk version http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/eki/2003/ep/030/
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I. TIME CONTEXT Current Situation II. POINTOF VIEW This presentation is in the point of view of the manager-owner. In this case‚ it is in the point of view of Miss Rose Malabanan‚ the proprietress of ROMA Bakery – a bakeshop that started in 1970 and until now‚ is still in the business after 38 years of continuous operation. Due to increase in demands‚ the owner is planning to expand the business by opening another branch. III. CENTRAL PROBLEM Does the plan of the owner-manager to open
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How to Raise Capital for Your Business ( Etrepnuership) Launching a new business requires much skill and preparation. Entrepreneurs may not have the resources to raise capital in order to market their new business ideas; therefore‚ some great business ideas never become commercialized. This is a common dilemma that many entrepreneurs face. They often speculate about how to raise capital and same time‚ are unsure about how their startup will have the needed financial security to properly stay on
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Venture Concepts Paper Fin/375 Venture Concepts Paper The venture that I chose is not conceptual but reality. The venture that my family started three years ago is SaMi ’s Place Mexican American Restaurant. This paper is to describe and analyze the startup of a business venture. The startup process would be to plan and develop this business by listing such details as 1) number of employees 2) type of facility/equipment needed 3) target customer demographics and 4) marketing channels. Research
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answers are not including the information intermediaries since we can differentiate intermediaries into two types in the capital market‚ one is financial intermediaries such as venture capital firms‚ banks‚ mutual funds‚ and insurance companies‚ and the other is information intermediaries such as auditors‚ financial analysts‚ bond-rating agencies‚ and the financial press. a) Venture Capitalists (VCs) There are several types of VCs that invest in companies in different stages such as Seed‚ Early Stage
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The internet was being thought of as an economy and not a channel in the economy. The events of 2000 signaled the end of the internet bubble and marked the start of a real digital transformation in the economy. People mainly jumped on the internet bandwagon because of its fashionability. The internet is providing a powerful new business infrastructure‚ a universal information system for handling the transactions of the economy while bringing about radical new efficiencies to both buyers and sellers
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the capital markets: A review of the empirical disclosure literature$ Paul M. Healy*‚ Krishna G. Palepu Graduate School of Business‚ Harvard University‚ Boston‚ MA 02446‚ USA Received 14 January 2000; received in revised form 16 March 2001 Abstract Financial reporting and disclosure are potentially important means for management to communicate firm performance and governance to outside investors. We provide a framework for analyzing managers’ reporting and disclosure decisions in a capital markets
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