You are starting a high-tech venture. Would you prefer to bootstrap your company or secure financing from an angel or venture capital fund (like Onset Ventures)? Using information from the readings assigned for today‚ explain your answer in terms of the pros and cons of each. To answer this question satisfactorily‚ we need to first consider and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each method of financing: bootstrapping‚ angel financing‚ or venture capital (VC) funding‚ followed by the investigating
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Fox Venture Partners: Enriching the Private Equity Investor Pool This HBS Case majorly discusses about a proposal from Peter Lawrence and Diana Frazier where they want to create an investment fund through which they will take investments from wealthy families and then reinvest the same into Venture Capital funds through private equity. The target group of investors for this new fund was clearly the wealthy families of United States who had been thus far investing in venture funds in an unstructured
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Cross Cultural Challenges and Opportunities for Indian Businesses in China 1. Introduction India and China are both countries with deep-rooted‚ ancient and traditional cultures. They both went through a cycle of prosperity and the economic downfall with the advent of colonialism‚ and now stand as amongst the fastest growing economies in the world. The liberalization of their markets forced them to come into contact with the global market and with each other. “Cross cultural ethical dilemmas often
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------------------------------------------------- Concerns about Current Cross-cultural Training Training Methods and Training Rigor The first concern is the selection of an appropriate cross-cultural training method and its level of training rigor. The degree of interaction required in the host country and the similarity between the individual’s native culture and the new culture are two determining factors for the selection of training methods and the level of training rigor (Black & Mendenhall
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Introduction to Cross – Cultural Psychology Josie Quezada PSY/ 450 Instructor: Desiree’ Deshay January 29‚ 2015 Psychology has many different branches that concentrate on different areas; one of the branches that focus on how cultural influences human behavior is cross – cultural psychology. Cross – Cultural psychology helps an individual understand the behavior‚ emotions‚ and the ability of connecting with different people from different cultures. It is not only an effective branch in psychology
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language and culture highlight the importance of being able to communicate effectively with colleagues in the new international workplace‚ where the only possible and quite limited lenience in multi-cultural communication is that of technology. Due to the rapid spread of globalization‚ effective cross-cultural communication is crucial if any business hopes to be successful in the international marketplace. Globalization in terms of international business is defined as “the process by which the whole world
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communication skills and relationships within a single culture is often challenging. Bridging the gap between different cultures makes building communication skills and relationships even more difficult. I will discuss some of the challenges of cross-cultural communication and the pieces necessary to build effective working relationships. Typically‚ some of the basic assumptions we make when communicating with people from our own culture must be questioned and modified when communicating with people
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and Looking Closely at Plate 3.1.9‚ what do these sources tell us about fifteenth – and sixteenth- century cross-cultural encounters? This assignment will discuss the nature of a cross-cultural encounter in the 15th and 16th centuries between the Portuguese traders and the people of Benin‚ leading to Portuguese figures depicted in Benin art and furthermore our understanding of cross-cultural encounters in general The plaque under consideration (plate 3.9.1) is of three forward facing warriors‚ dressed
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Family The Amish idea of family has been continuous since the 17th century. Amish communities place a high value on family‚ forming the key foundation of their society. Amish families are exclusively patriarchal. A typical Amish family comprises of a mother‚ a father and a few children. The extended family usually lives in close proximity and provides dependable support. Grand-parents are respected and are seen as knowledgeable‚ providing valuable advice. Our society doesn’t place such high
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(meeting social expectations and social rules) and effectiveness (achieving one’s goals). Understanding the individual’s role in cross-cultural communication has gained the attention of several researchers (Gudykunst‚ 1998; Ting-Toomey‚ 1988).Gudykunst as well as others (Klopf‚ 2001; Ting-Toomey‚ 1988) have given us a framework for examining the role that general cultural dimensions play in the communication process. Gudykunst‚ in his 1998 book titled Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication
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