9-806-077 FEBRUARY 1‚ 2006 FELDA HARDYMON JOSH LERNER ANN LEAMON Adams Capital Management: Fund IV Joel Adams‚ founder and general partner of Adams Capital Management (ACM)‚ a $700 million early-stage venture capital firm investing in the information technology‚ networking infrastructure‚ and semiconductor industries‚ glanced up as his fellow general partners trooped into his office on a brisk December morning in 2005 for their annual retrospective and planning meeting. The main topic on
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Entrepreneurial Finance | Professor: Caryl Pedersen | | Roxanne Robinson | 5/12/2013 | Chapter 1: Exercises/Problem #1 pp.33-34 1. [Financing Concepts] The following ventures are at different stages in their life cycles. Identify the likely stage for each venture and describe the type of financing each venture is likely to be seeking and identify potential sources for that financing. A. Phil Young‚ founder of Pedal Pushers‚ has an idea for a pedal replacement for children’s
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innovations have led to creation of major new inventions and technologies. 8. What role has venture capital played in this economic transformation? Private risk capital has been the rocket fuel of America’s entrepreneurial engine. Classic venture capitalists work as coaches and partners with entrepreneurs and innovators at a very early stage. In 1957‚ General George Doriot‚ father of modern American venture capital‚ and his young associate Bill Congelton at American Research & Development (ARD) invested
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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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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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Background PepsiCo is currently involved in 7 Joint ventures in People’s Republic of China (PRC) and is in the proposal process of investing into an equity joint venture in the city of Changchun.This proposal would be one of the first two green field equity joint venture with PepsiCo having control over both the board and day-today managmenet. PepsiCo uses capital budgeting tools such as NPV and IRR to systematically evaluate their investment project. Using this evaluation method Mr Hawaux‚ vice
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