...large operating company with huge financial success and annual revenue. With that in mind this company has the ability to implement several different kinds of organizational structures and departments. The best approach to starting the idea of cutting expenses and increasing revenue would be to become more centralized than in the past, but not 100% centralized at this point. This new structure would create two to three new divisions under Scott; a farm supplies purchasing department which would include a salaried manager, or a manager and two supervisors, an analyst, three buyers, an expediting clerk that cross trains as an invoice clerk or an invoice clerk. The larger farm supplies purchasing department would fully handle the purchasing of farm supplies. Taking the power away from the local managers and the product managers would give them the ability to have a deeper view of the organization. For example, the company could consolidate shipments of supplies to save transportation costs. Effective communicate between new departments, management, and subordinates is crucial to make this new venture effectively run. The smaller elevator operations purchasing department would oversee the decisions made by local managers, but would not do any...
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...VENTURE CAPITAL There will be entrepreneurs who will be technically qualified but they will not be having the required amount of capital to finance their business. Venture capital is a type of funding for a new or growing business. It usually comes from venture capital firms that specialize in building high risk financial portfolios. With venture capital, the venture capital firm gives funding to the startup company in exchange to the returns in the future. IMPORTANCE OF VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCING The following are the importance of venture capital financing. 1. Promoting Entrepreneurs: Just as a scientist brings out his laboratory findings to reality and makes it commercially successful, similarly, an entrepreneur converts his technical know-how...
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...of finance for entrepreneur Entrepreneurs as pioneering play an important role in achieving business success in today twenty-one century. They serve as agents of change provide creative, innovative ideas for business enterprises and help business grow and become profitable. There are two types of entrepreneurs which are business entrepreneur and social entrepreneur. Business entrepreneur is driven by a profit motive while social entrepreneur is driven by a mission to fill the gap left of the market and public sector. This essay will typically focus on business entrepreneur.（Frederick, H.H&D.F.Kurakto.2010）.The most important part for enterprise doing business is financing .Without money or capital which is extremely hard for entrepreneur starting up a business. However there are many sources of financing for entrepreneur. The essay will be illustrated from some sources of finance via an existing company. Sharetea Australia Pty is a company that specialist in food and beverages. The company has four shops located in different district s in Sydney. As a proprietary company which meant the company is owned by an individual that has limited shares, around fifty employees work in the company. Anthony Mu is the manager of the company which has 10 years working experiences. In this essay, it is necessary to discuss how do Anthony Mu raise funds as an entrepreneur for starting his business, and any source of finance that he used to maintain his company. It said that it is...
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...deficiencies of the existing financial system in Bangladesh to cater to financing needs of SMEs or new potential entrepreneurs and a proposal has been given to develop the venture capital industry to meet financing and non-financing needs of SMEs. SMEs play a vital role within Bangladesh’s economy in terms of creation of industrial outputs and generation of employment. Even though they play a significant role they face problems in securing investment or manage finance to develop their ideas or to expand their existing business. It is not possible for Bangladesh to accelerate economic growth without catering to the financing needs of SMEs, Thus, the paper proposes the development of the venture capital industry as an additional financial intermediary to Cater to financing and non-financing needs of SMEs. The paper discusses available sources of finance for SMEs and the Constraints of these sources. There are basically three sources from which SMEs may receive finance. These are banks, non-government organizations (NGOs) and the capital market. Then, we discuss the advantages that venture capitalists have over banks in catering to the funding needs of SMEs. It is argued that venture capitalists perform the role of ‘active investors’ by way of offering both financial and non-financial commitment to the investee company, which is essential in a market characterized by a high level of uncertainties. Also, it is argued that venture capitalists can reduce the transaction costs associated with monitoring...
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...Launching a new business requires much preparation and of course money. First phase to start or expand your business - is to identify ways of raising finance, find one that is most compatible with your needs, and then meet the given criteria of the investor or bank. There are different types of financing that will enable an entrepreneur to raise capital for their new business: 1)Personal funding Using personal finances is one of the first sources that an entrepreneur may consider using when they decide to raise capital for their new business. Money can be obtained from personal checking and savings accounts, credit cards, and retirement accounts. In addition, equity can be collected from the sale of real estate properties, vehicles, recreational equipment, and even rare collectables. The advantage of this type of financing is that you do not have to borrow from the bank, but if you are a beginner Entrepreneur you will hardly have enough of own funds to open a big business. 2) Equity financing. This is a type of financing is essentially an exchange of money for a piece of ownership in a new business. This type of financing can usually be provided by venture capitalists and angel investors. An advantage of using equity financing as a way to raise capital is that the new business owner can pay back the loaned amount throughout a fixed duration of time. In addition, the new business owner can focus on making their product profitable rather than worrying about paying back...
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...Running head: BOOTSTRAPPING FOR NEW VENTURES BOOTSTRAPPING FOR NEW VENTURES Antoinette Brown Metropolitan College of New York BOOTSTRAPPING FOR NEW VENTURES Abstract Bootstrapping, frequently regarded as a means to an end when there are no other options to finance a business. Entrepreneurs commonly use bootstrapping practices to help get new ventures up and running. For most small start ups, the process of securing financial backing is risky. When outside capital financing, venture capitalists, banks, and angel investors do not exist Bootstrapping is entrepreneurship in its purest form. It is the transformation of human capital into financial capital. The overwhelming majority of entrepreneurial companies financed through this “highly creative” process, which involves the use personal savings, credit-card debt, loans from friends and family, and formal sources of private equity (Freear, Sohl, and Wetzel, 1995). BOOTSTRAPPING FOR NEW VENTURES Bootstrapping Risks and Rewards When the investment banker says ‘NO’ the entrepreneur relies on himself or herself to raise capital by bootstrap financing. Bootstrappers have to be resourceful to a certain extent. The entrepreneur finds other creative ways to make-do or they do without. Bootstrappers consider strategies that can essentially reduce risks connected with their new ventures. By creating a business that make available products or services and needs little or no inventory, the entrepreneur can make...
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...Content Introduction 2 Chapter 1: Theoretical aspect of venture financing of innovational projects 5 1.1 The economic essence of venture financing of innovational projects 5 1.2 Main Stages of Venture Financing 11 1.3 The organization of the process of venture financing of innovational projects 14 Chapter 2: Venture financing abroad and its development in Russia 23 2.1. Experience of developed countries in the field of venture financing 23 2.2. Current situation and peculiarities of the development of venture capital industry in Russia 28 2.3 The role of state in the system of Russian venture financing 34 Chapter 3: Analysis of venture financing company and recommendations for it development on the example of JSC "Solar-Optic" 45 3.1. Analysis of key financial and economic indicators of JSC "Solar-Optic Ltd" 45 3.2. Analysis of the process of financing of Innovation Company of JSC "Solar-Optic” 55 3.3. Analysis of the sources of funding and recommendations for attraction of potential investor 62 Conclusion 71 Used Material 76 Appendixes 80 Introduction Diversification of the economy, and shift from primary industries to high-tech industry, is not only one of the major challenges facing the Russian economy at that moment, but also largely depends on the pace of development of technology-based entrepreneurship. World experience shows that small and medium-sized innovative companies as economic actors most motivated and flexible in achieving output...
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...[pic] Industry Research On VENTURE CAPITAL INDUSTRY CONTENTS |SR. NO. |CHAPTER NAME |PAGE. NO. | |1. |Industry Profile |6 | | |1.1 |Products/Service Profile, Sector classification & Nature of industry |6 | | |1.2 |Regularity environment |7 | | |1.3 |Economic environment, political and legal concerns |7 | | | | | |2. |Research Methodology |9 | | |2.1 |Population |9 | | |2.2 |Criteria for selection |9 | | |2.3 |List of companies chosen ...
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...VENTURE CAPITAL -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE BASIC ISSUES AND CHALLENGES FOR ENTREPRENEURS A NETPRENEUR.ORG SPECIAL REPORT AUGUST 2001 PREPARED BY: ANDREW J. SHERMAN, ESQ. ANDREW J. SHERMAN, ESQ. MCDERMOTT, WILL & EMERY 600 13TH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005 (202) 756-8610 (202) 756-8087 (FAX) AJSHERMAN@MWE.COM (E-MAIL) WDC99 474195-1.T06139.0012 INTRODUCTION At several recent Netpreneur.org Coffee & DoughNuts events, including the May 23rd program on Ratchets, Cramdowns and Other Scary Venture Capital Terms as well as the recent Startup.com film event on July 17th, many members of our Netpreneur community posed questions on the fundamentals of structuring venture capital transactions, including many that time prevented the panel from addressing. Clearly there is a lot of interest in this topic among our region's technology entrepreneurs, but there is also a lot of confusion. Rather than deal directly with the dozens of specific questions posed at these two events, this Netpreneur.org special report will provide an overview of some case concepts which I hope will be helpful to you in the growth and financing of your business. OVERVIEW AND HISTORY OF VENTURE CAPITAL Today's institutional venture capital industry has its roots at the turn of the twentieth century, when wealthy families like the Rockefellers and DuPonts provided risk capital to small growing companies. Following World War II, a few institutional venture capital companies were formed, the most...
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...Finance Instructor I. Statement of the Problem Alfin Fragrances, Inc. is a U.S.-based high-priced French perfume importer and marketer introducing a new line of cosmetic product, Glycel. In this new venture however, the company is unsure on how to finance the growth of this product. In the company’s existing capital structure, they are underleveraged, which means that the firm is financing their operations and growth more with equity, which has become too costly. The researchers have identified that Alfin Fragrances, Inc. needs another mean to finance their growth and costs in their new venture. II. Alternatives Based on the researchers’ findings on the financial statements of Alfin Fragrances, Inc., the following alternatives are subject for assessment: Firstly, the company would finance its new venture and operations with external financing through a 56.83% backed-debt and a 43.17% backed-equity. Second, by still not issuing dividends to stockholders, the company can internally finance projects, aiding in the company’s growth and an increase in retained earnings that can be used to fund the operating costs in their venture into the cosmetics industry. Lastly, should there be excess funds, the company will provide 14.63% as capital for advertising expense to establish a market in their new product line, leading to an increase in sales and profit. III. Assumptions The...
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...Ugbah Prepared for: School of Business & Technology Introduction Entrepreneurship has significantly contributed to society’s climb from underdevelopment to affluence. This has been accomplished through the introduction of new products and technologies to better satisfy consumer wants and raise productivity. An entrepreneur, therefore, is a person who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk for the sake of potential return (Mariotti & Glackin, 2012). The entrepreneur is an innovator who brings about change through the introduction of new technological processes or products, and thus, through innovation, the entrepreneur is a “deliberate wrecker of equilibrium.” Successful entrepreneurship is associated with a high degree of practical intelligence, creative abilities, and business talent, characteristics which Shavinina (2006) refers to as “entrepreneurial giftedness” (p. 225)--talented individuals who exceptionally succeeded in business by creating new ventures. According to Darling, Gabrielsson, and Seristo (2007), entrepreneurial management leadership is all about “breaking new ground, going beyond the known, and helping to create the future.” Also, entrepreneurial management leadership is about helping people settle into new opportunities that give them joy and hope for the future. The keys to entrepreneurial success are not intelligence, education, lifestyle or background. Rather, entrepreneurial success is determined, in most part, by the entrepreneur’s...
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...Session on Financing Excerpts from Angel Investor Study Venture Support Systems Project: Angel Investors MIT Entrepreneurship Center Release 1.1 February 2000 The Venture Support Systems (VSS) Project is managed by a team at MIT and HBS. It was funded by a generous donation from Ronald A. Kurtz (MIT 1954) and David Kurtz (HBS 1992). Other reports from the VSS Project include cases, teaching notes and monographs. This report was prepared by Lucinda Linde (Marlin Capital) and Alok Prasad (Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath) under the direction of Kenneth P. Morse and Matthew Utterback of the MIT Sloan School and Howard Stevenson and Michael Roberts, of the Harvard Business School. �2000 MIT Entrepreneurship Center Executive Summary Angel investors are an important and growing source of financing for the start-up and initial growth phases of technology ventures. This study focused on high net worth angel investors with entrepreneurial backgrounds. Many of these angels invest in first time entrepreneurs before the entrepreneurs secure venture capital financing. Besides earning a strong return on their investment, these experienced angels are motivated to “give back” to the community which helped make them successful. Very little published data is available on angel investing and little research has been done on the experienced angel investor. It may be valuable for first time entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, regulators and other members of the venture community...
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...Venture Financing in India A. Sahay* Abstract Innovation is stated to be the initiating force for a new venture but venture finance is the life blood for entrepreneurship. Innovation is the fuel for igniting the Entrepreneurial engine, Venture capital revs up the engine fast till it attains sustainable speed to change the gears from idea to entity, eventually reaching IPO stage. The paper starts with Research and Development Cess Act, 1986 and covers the development in the field till 2003 and presents an analysis of venture investments as well as future prospects . The history of Venture capital (VC), its advent in India, Characteristics of VC, Government guidelines on VC, Classification of VC in India, Types of V and their analysis has been dealt in the C paper. . Introduction Since Independence till early1990s, the Government has been playing the role of an entrepreneur as well. This was on account of the policy direction which propounded socialistic society and mixed economy. There was dearth of capital, infrastructure facilities and entrepreneurship in the country. During this period, the Government developed infrastructural base such as roads, railways, electricity, ports, banks, financial institutions, insurance etc through the public sector enterprises which were supposed to attain commanding heights of the economy. The environment thus created resulted in the people of India becoming job seekers and the Government itself became a dominant entrepreneur and job provider...
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...Venture Capitalist ENGL106-Week 2 IP American Intercontinental University Kendrick Little April 22, 2012 Abstract This is a paper to define and explain what venture capitalism is as well as what venture capitalists do in their business. Venture Capitalist An venture capitalist a person who provides capital is for the financing of growing, a new upstarting or struggling businesses. Venture capitalists are the general partners in the venture capitalist process. The capital itself provides long term finances to help companies that are not as lucrative as other large companies and it just simply keeps the company from failing. Venture capital can primarily help with a lot of things such as buying out a company, save a struggling one, upstart a new or expand an existing one. The venture capitalist profit is dependent solely on the company they have invested in, if the company is showing good signs of turnaround or having a good amount of success then the venture capitalist has made a good investment and will benefit from the success financially. Venture capitalist usually works very closely with the partner in the venture capital firm which develops a partnership. The general partners of the company role serves as the managers of the firm and will also in some cases take on the role as advisor to the vc’s to which the funds are made. In the Unites States of America venture capital firms can be set up or structured as limitied liability companies, by doing so the...
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...BPP Business School Finance Department Financing Entrepreneurial Initiatives Module Outline 1. Module Details It is a Level 7 (Master’s Level) elective module with 15 credits. As a pre-requisite students need to have taken Financial Statement Analysis or an equivalent Accounting course. There will be 10 sessions, 3 hours each every week. Tim Wiscarson will teach the course. 2. Aims and Objectives The course aims to provide students with a strong foundation in evaluating different business models and opportunities and understand the various ways unlisted companies can be built and listed. It is designed to expose the student to many different kinds of situations involving a critical evaluation of the business, for the purpose of determining its value and for seeking financing. It shows how the various financing and investment activities can have an impact on the structure, operations as well as the future of the business. 3. Syllabus 1. Outline The module aims to provide the students with an overview of analysis and valuation of different business models and entrepreneurial opportunities. It introduces different types and sources of financing and the various elements involved from both the management as well as the investor point. It aims to develop the students’ skills in addressing financing and investment issues within an entrepreneurial company and understand how to approach the market investors. As such it targets to enhance...
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