UpDown’s Equity Split At the onset of the venture you and Georg Ludviksson each agreed to invest $5‚000 in seed capital to launch the venture‚ but you had trouble defining your roles because of the overlap in experience. However‚ the perception was that you would secure the investment‚ and Georg would manage the product. Eventually you realized that you would require the assistance of a chief technology officer‚ which lead to partnering with Phuc Truong. According to the original formalized one-page
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Chapter 13 STRATEGIC ISSUES IN ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES AND SMALL BUSINESSES The Importance of Small-Business and Entrepreneurial Ventures A. Definition of Small-Business Firms and Entrepreneurial Ventures The most commonly accepted definition of a small business firm is one that employs fewer than 500 people and that generates sales of less than $20 million annually. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration‚ “A small business is one which is independently owned and operated‚
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how to best reverse an economic downturn‚ about the only thing you might find politicians agreeing on is the importance of supporting small businesses. For accelerators‚ it doesn’t matter whether or not all of their startups raise big rounds of venture capital‚ it matters how well their graduates can build a network of support for their peers and for future companies. The deeper and more robust it becomes‚ the more success startups find and the more jobs they collectively create. One of the more
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Q1: Why do you think Starbucks has now elected to expand internationally primarily through local joint ventures to whom it licenses its format‚ as opposed to using a pure licensing strategy? First of all‚ the main point of this topic is that local joint venture gives control to Starbucks. In fact‚ the company can be really sure that licensees are following its success formula. For example‚ it allowed the company to the liberty to train the foreign working party by transferring some employees
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This article was published in a slightly different form as Chapter 10 of Joint Ventures in Europe‚ Tottel Publishing‚ 2008. Joint Ventures in the Russian Federation Hermann Schmitt White & Case‚ Moscow 1 Hermann Schmitt Partner 1 General background 1.1 Joint ventures under Russian law Russian law currently does not provide a specific definition of ‘joint ventures’.2 In broad terms‚ a joint venture is a structure involving two or more independent entities that decide to work together
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Private equity Private equity is a source of investment capital from high net worth individuals and institutions for the purpose of investing and acquiring equity ownership in companies. Partners at private equity firms raise funds and manage these monies for the purpose of yielding favorable returns for their shareholder clients‚ typically with an investment horizon between four and seven years. These funds can be used in the purchase of shares of private companies‚ or in public companies
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Raising Finance Source of finance Description of source of finance Advantages Disadvantrages Personal sources Peronal sources tend to be the first form of finance used by very small firms. And important personal source of finance is the savings that the entrepreneur accumulated before starting up the business. #Savings are a cheap form of finance as they do not involve paying any interest. #Using savings enables the owner to keep control of the business. This is especially valuable to those
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Cloud computing is becoming the way to go in the corporate world‚ and venture capitalist firms are taking note. Realizing that the cloud is only as good as one’s access to it‚ many corporations are seeking to ensure that their Wide Area Network – or WAN – is reliable‚ allowing for quick access to software. WAN optimization is becoming the latest hot ticket‚ and many venture capitalist firms are getting in on the wave of the future. WAN optimization is a relatively mature field. However‚ the
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Subject line: Describe what went right and what went wrong with this venture. Add in how you would fix the identified problems‚ if this was your company. NeoMed Technologies developed a diagnostic device used for cardiac testing‚ and is headquartered in Ohio. They developed a CAD screen system to detect coronary artery disease. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Cleveland‚ Ohio. NeoMed Technologies was faced with a lot of difficult decisions at the beginning when it came to where
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Identify and discuss Corning ’s strategic predisposition toward a joint venture with Vitro. Because of long histories of successful joint ventures and had been an innovative leader in foreign alliances for over 73 years‚ Corning ’s strategy of establishing the joint venture relationship with Vitro seems to be a ideal combination and will lead to success. However‚ the joint venture became subject to a series of cultural and other conflicts that began to undermine this vision. According to company
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