Essays on Venture Capital

PART 1

An international Joint Venture is an equity agreement in which foreign and local business organization co-own a business by pooling their resources together, share the risks associated with the business as well as exercising managerial control to operate an autonomous business in order to make profits or to enjoy economic and premeditated advantages.
The success of such ventures depends on a number of factors as. Some of the factors that determine the success of Joint Ventures include:
- Cultural factors- the way of life among different partners in a joint venture has a significant influence on the success of Continue reading...

The quality and aggressiveness of the marketing and advertising strategies that a business, especially the startup ones, implements can spell the difference between a booming and steeply declining startup sales figures. Naturally, more innovative and aggressive marketing and advertising strategies would equate to significantly larger sales margins and vice versa for more lame, old school and outdated marketing strategies. Marketing and advertising strategies are so extremely important for startup businesses that it can be one of the primary indicators of the company’s success in future, aside of course from more innate factors such as the necessity index of Continue reading...

Business management

Business management
Coast acquisition is business sales term that refers to the total expenses necessary to to attain a sale or retain a customer. Therefore, it the total cost associated with the buying and selling of goods and services, or even assets. In general, the net price plus the associated cost of purchase and taking the good to the point of use comprises the total acquisition costs. These cost include the following; the purchase cost i.e. research, closing, accounting, legal fees, and commissions, the transportation fee from the point of purchase to the end use location, preparation and other Continue reading...

Kwame Kilpatrick former Detroit Mayor Case

Kwame M. Kilpatrick who was the former mayor of Detroit was sentenced for 28 years in jail for being involved in a corruption scandal. The defense should not apply to either reduce Kwame’s sentence or exonerate him. Kwame had greatly embezzled the city’s funds not only during his time as the mayor but also when he was a state legislator (Spence, 2011). His corrupt actions warranted him to get the harshest sentence possible given that he was a public official. Although the defense requested that he should receive a term that is not more than 15 years, Continue reading...

Thesis topic

‘Instructor’s Name’
‘Subject’
Will Governor Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula improve the ability of districts to meet student needs compared to the former system?

Brief Background and Aims of the Research

The current education system in California lacks transparency and is extremely complicated. All the participants, be it policymakers or parents, struggle to comprehend the current system, which offers different pupil per rate across various districts. There were many allegations that affluent schools ended up getting more per pupil rate than the other schools. To negate this inequity in the distribution of federal funds, Governor Brown in the year 2013-14 introduced the Local Control Continue reading...

The leadership style applied in the United States may not be successful. If the business is to venture in Australia, it needs to appreciate that Australian people will react better to another leadership style since the leadership style used in the two countries is different. However, there are similarities between the two leadership styles that enjoin business and are accepted universally. For an individual to be an effective leader in Australia, a person must be respected. In the United States, on the contrary, the position is more respected than the person who holds it. Respect for the person rather Continue reading...

Misallocation of funds

The Make a Way Foundation was founded with the aim of fighting poverty and hunger that involved communities with hope and self-reliance. The foundation had planned for a children’s summer expense project but in the process of goal realization for this fiscal year, it has been realized that there is a misallocation of funds that can be attributed to the following reasons.
Some officials who do the scoring for the awarding of the funds fail to follow the right criteria in many cases. So some applicants were unequally treated and in times were awarded more or fewer dollars Continue reading...

- Can schools be managed and operated like business?
Management of schools should take a form similar to any other organization that is geared towards achieving certain results. Management, in a general sense, involves several functions that lead to the coordination of peoples’ efforts in a manner that would make them achieve some desired goals and objectives. These goals and objectives are set by the management of these organizations that undertake the coordination of the said efforts. For the coordination to take place, there must be the deployment of certain resources that must also be used in an effective Continue reading...

The role of policy makers in any economy is to regulate macroeconomic activities with the main goal of maintaining economic stability. The goal of the policy maker is to maintain stability, which is significant in promoting economic growth and social welfare of the citizens. The policy makers have implemented various policies to stimulate the economy since the financial crisis when government suffered a critical national debt. They are also trying to implement a reliable strategy for balancing the government’s budget in the long- run to solve macroeconomic problems. Therefore, implementing long-term fiscal sustainability is vital for today’s Continue reading...

Heilemann, J. (2002). Machine of Dreams. Vanity Fair, No. 501, pp. 185-188.
The article is an appraisal about the achievements of Dean Kamen. The author begins by looking at the manner in which Kamen revealed his latest invention, which is what the author refers to as the ‘Machine of Dreams’. The article documents the character and the successes that Kamen has achieved over the years.
The major theme of the article is resilience. Throughout the article, the author tries to demonstrate the resilience and achievements of Kamen, a college dropout. This is evidenced by the fact that Kamen took Continue reading...

Internal control practices are the activities that enable a company to maintain an environment that is solely focused on accountability and ethics. These are systems that are put in place to safeguard the resources of the business. By putting in place these practices department benefits in the following ways; one of the benefits is that the internal controls provide checks and balances on the usage of resources. They also ensure that the areas of priority in an organization are identified as well as addressed. Another benefit of putting in place internal controls is that it allows the company to Continue reading...

Venture capital in Russia

Venture capital in Russia with focus on Innovation
Background
A development institute and government fund of the Russian federation named as Russian venture fund. The fund that has established for Russian venture fund in 2010 to 2012 is now at the first stage of completion of the initial cycle. The funds are expected to be raised in 2014 to 2015 and also more has expected to exits. There are several companies that had established in 2006 to 2009 have been closed now due to foundation that take seven years period to startup with a sale procedure.
In the e-commerce Continue reading...

Introduction

Analytically, Softwood Ltd has been experiencing growth in the recent years thanks to its large client base. In its effort to expand, the business should make sound financial decisions to avoid a possible decline of its current position.

In their endeavor to expand, Softwood Ltd has various sources of finance to rely.

1. Internal sources
Internal sources encompass all sources of finances within the company. These could be retained profits, proceeds from sale of furniture of the company’s property and personal savings by the owners of the venture (Dlabay, 2008).Examples of internal sources are;
- Retained profits
- Tighter credit control
- Reduce inventories
- Delay paying trade payables
2. External Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

Since the Great Depression of 1929-30, the worst financial crisis was witnessed during the end of 2008. Numerous American and European banks declared going into loss by the end of 2007. Later, Lehman Brothers, the 158-year old investment bank went bankrupt; Merill Lynch, the investment bank and the stock-broking firm was taken over; Goldman Sacks and Morgan Stanley seek the status of bank to receive protection against bankruptcy. It was during the same week that the other four investment banks on the Wall Street collapsed.
The global financial crisis of 2008 was one of the most critical ones in Continue reading...

Introduction

Many people have argued to the effect that disability is not inability. However, the fact remains that people with disabilities in the society face a lot of discriminations. This discrimination is always based on a number of factors. Despite the efforts by governments, the fact remains that the disabled in the community face specific challenges that the people without the disabilities do not face. Whether in the employment sector, the transportation department, the corporate world or the day to day happenings, the disabled face several challenges. Most governments have made efforts to ensure that the disabled in the society Continue reading...

For RTWMTC, budgeting is important since it will allow the company to plan its expenditures. It will allow for a balance between the capital and recurrent expenditures. This will ensure that the company maintains growth in a balanced manner hence avoiding illiquidity or insolvency. The other reason is that the budget will allow this company to manage its financial information and also review it on a real time basis. This will be achieved by maintaining an automated budgeting system which will ensure that the company makes timely and right expenditure decisions (Besley & Brigham, 2008). Thirdly, it is a means Continue reading...

Auditor has much to learn from the article "What the Dog Saw". It gives inspiration and advice that is essential of practiced while auditing. It has provided with clues on how to undertake the task in an appropriate and efficient considering the situation and the environment. Malcolm Gladwell pointed some of the activities of which related much to the situations concerning to the business field. The cultural trends of the Americans during 1950s it was a taboo of a woman applying dye on their hair. This is connected with how companies have tied back their original message of which Continue reading...

The War on Terror which is also referred to as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) is applied to an international military campaign that was initiated after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in America. As an international military campaign, it was intended to eliminate militant organizations such as al-Qaeda, and other terrorist groups so as to end terrorism. The war on terror has taken different directions and phases. Although the results have been good, a lot is at stake (Gardner 624). Nations such as the U.S have spent billions of dollars to end the menace. As a result, Continue reading...

In our country, politics has been known to be a game for the rich and cunning. This is because of what happens in the Arena, of which the faint in heart cannot handle. To be specific, public money has been noted to be mishandled and misappropriated. The public ends up being taxed heavily in the name of economic development, but only the few benefit from this programs. With these in mind, there is need for a program to be set up to ensure that public money is well spent in areas that majority of the population will benefit. A Continue reading...

1- What items dominates the budget?

The items that dominate the budget include; education, infrastructural development and private sector initiatives. Other key areas that the budget focus on include creating more jobs for the people and focusing on revenue collection. Domination of items is based on the importance attached to them. Some of the areas that budget focus on are directly related to one another. For instance, in infrastructural development, when the sector is active, a number of jobs can be created as without much of a hustle. The budget focused on critical areas capable of boosting economic stability. In a sense, by looking at Continue reading...

- What must an entrepreneur do to earn a profit?
Entrepreneur provides a differentiated product or service in a market. Therefore entrepreneur launch a new product or service based on the big idea. The profitability of entrepreneur is rooted in their persistence and determination to keep going.
The foremost reason is that since the entrepreneur is in competition with established products in the market, profitability may not come along instantly. In order to earn profits, an entrepreneur needs to have a clear idea about the market it wants to target.
Risk taking is at the heart of every new Continue reading...

First Place Fund’s Objectives

First Place Fund has 5 main objectives. The organization’s first objective is housing stability to former foster youth. Its second objective is to provide economic security to the program participants. The organization believes that for former foster youth to maintain housing, they need to engage in wage employment that pays them a wage that matches the cost of living. Its third objective is to provide educational attainment to former foster youth. The organization is of the opinion that financial success is based not only pegged on having wage employment but on other factors, as well. To ensure transitioning Continue reading...

Business Cases: Questions and Response (1)

Chapter 7: Social Venture Partners
- What are the advantages for a donor of participating in a venture philanthropy organization versus traditional philanthropy?
When the care for human value is being talked about, it is always good to work along with others. Relatively, the point of giving assistance to others is often noted as somewhat distinctively dedicated to making sure that human value is recognized accordingly not only for the sake of one but a group of individuals living in a community. In this case, it is assumed that the works to be completed are too numerous to count. Continue reading...

Founded during the year 2004, Facebook today is the world’s most loved social networking site. However, the success of the company is equally contributed through venture capital, which the company raised in various rounds of financing over the years. The company raised its first successful funding from the venture capital firm, Accel Partners during 2005, which made a bet of $12.2 Million on a year old website which was run by a college drop out. The amount was raised solely for the expansion of the company and to reach out to more and more users. The funding raised Continue reading...

Research Problem

Funding a business is a complex issue. A new business owner should identify whether he or she is willing to finance the new business with the help of equity or debt. Each of the funding methods has its advantages and disadvantages. Equity financing allows business owners avoid making large loan payments. Investors may offer valuable business assistance to the new business owner in the case of need as they are interested in the success of the venture. If all risks are clearly explained to the investors, they will understand if the business fails. However, the investors will own a Continue reading...

Question 1

Lizer was aware through personal experience that the most of the car stereos available in the market did not satisfy their purpose. Most of the stereos worked for a short time then broke down. He saw a need to create a product, which did not have similar problems. Therefore, he designed Dash to exploit the opportunity of reliable car stereos. He also exploited an online freelancer site to acquire technical help. He was able to accomplish prototype product development through outsourcing some of the design steps. He exploited the virtual workplace to hire part time workers who were cheaper Continue reading...

Which fund types are included Fiduciary Net Assets?

Financial assets of Chicago on Fiduciary net assets contains a number of funds, some of the funds included under assets are cash and those funds that are equivalent to funds. There are liabilities where voucher warrants that are payable and security lending. Finally, funds accounted for an agency along the normal statements (David, 2012). The sum gives the net position of held trust of employees and the total of net position.

Do Agency funds form part of the Statement of Fiduciary Net Assets?

The statement on fiduciary includes agency funds. Besides the normal accounting statement, there are calculations on agency. Under the explanation of the statement, the additional elaborations on the Continue reading...

The article’s discussion revolves around the advantages and a shortcoming of the farm bill dated 2014.The purpose of the bill is to act as a benchmark for implementation of reforms concerning subsidies in agriculture. Proper coordination in research and rural employment expansion are the central reforms. There are notable adjustments in the environmental protections in the bill.
The bill merits on several areas. Firstly, it safeguards the federal budget against misappropriations. The initial direct payments issuance to farming population has been cut-off. The payments initially acted as subsidies both in good and bad years. Subsidies during periods of Continue reading...

The decision accelerators assisted in initiating changes in the organization. This was possible through development of wide-ranging strategies. The data collected provided room for a number of reservations. For instance, the ability of the organization to effect the changes remained doubtful. This was because of the informal implementation mechanisms adopted. It was feared that engagement of the organization in numerous processes would decelerate the processes of change. However, improvement of the assessment was possible. Researchers proposed that it was prudent to create various decision accelerators to tackle specified issues. It would have also been reasonable to formalize certain processes Continue reading...

Investing in the Future

Investing in the Future

One of the most important aspects of modern life is planning the financial future. It’s not a secret that every successful task in our life needs planning, whether it is planning a holiday or planning some long-term event. However, the most significant of all things is personal financial planning as it secures good future life for people involved in this process. Planning the financial life a person should be serious and responsible and should examine many aspects which influence the process of financial planning at all. The finances should be balanced taking into consideration Continue reading...

Heal the Bay

1444 9th St.

Santa Monica, CA 90401

Fred Ali, President/CEO
1055 W 7th #3200, Los Angeles, CA 90017

Dear Mr. Ali,

I am writing to inquire whether Weingart Foundation would invite a proposal from Heal the Bay, requesting for a grant of $50,000 every year for two years for the accomplishment of the group’s 2014-2015 initiatives.
Founded in 1985, Heal the Bay is a non-profit organization that aims to protect and conserve the Southern California coastal waters and watersheds, including Santa Monica Bay. It is the group’s mission to keep these waters clean, safe, and healthy. With your interest in ensuring the well-being Continue reading...

Introduction:

The pirates of Manhattan, Barry James Dyke expounds and gives a clear and vivid 10 year extensive research insight on the various concerning the American consumer. He clearly brings the general aspect of Systematically Plundering the American Consumer and How to protect against it. The knowledge of well extensive research is backed by the detailed statistics presented. This is based on the fact that if most guarantees are absent, consequently most financial products fade away. Hence, in the expanded form of analysis, the book clearly brings the aspect of the liquidity of money. In addition, the behavior of money Continue reading...

The article, A Student's Guide to Start Ups, discusses in detail the dilemma graduating students face. The dilemma stems from the choice these graduates have; they can either start their own business, or go work for some company. The article states that startups rose in popularity during the 90's, but the popularity levels decreased during the early 2000's. However, during the 90's, most people wanted to work for startups, a situation that is quite different now. Today, people want to begin their own startups. The article further states that graduating students do not have something to fall back on Continue reading...

Introduction

The initial step in constructing Mr. Donothing portfolio is to determine the appropriate asset allocation. To begin with is by ascertaining Mr. Donothing financial position and investment goals. The most important factor to start with is Mr. Donothing age, available opportunity of growing his investments as well as the amount of capital that may be required for future capital needs. At the age of 55 Mr. Donothing will be planning of paying his child’s education. Another factor to consider is his risk tolerance. Would he be willing to risk some money for a possibility of greater returns? Mr. Continue reading...

Donna Hayes, the leader of MIRA team and vice president of direct marketing was vested with the responsibility of launching a new line of single-title women’s fiction novel (MIRA). She knew that a previous attempt to launch a single title novel Worldwide Library had failed. The previous venture had taken a span of two years from its launch date from 1986 to 1988 when the venture was abandoned by Harlequin. In order to benchmark in subsequent issues regarding single title novels, the management saw it desirable to appoint a taskforce that would investigate the causes of failure for Continue reading...

Advantages of a partnership between Alpha Corporation and Omega private limited company in production and selling of calendars with African paintings
The main advantage of this partnership is pooling of both companies resources bringing about availability of sufficient capital. Thus, ensuring access to improved resources like experienced staff, experienced technicians, greater capacity plus financial resources
Second, the both companies have different skills and experiences and therefore the benefit of their common knowledge will be available to the business venture common to them.
Partnership also means sharing of profits and losses in an established ratio implying that risks are borne Continue reading...

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- Executive Summary
Summer Grocery Store (SGS) is a grocery store intended to be established at the South Boston Farmers Market. The main objective of the business is to provide healthy organic food stuffs to the local community at a low price. The products to be sold at the store include organic vegetables, fruits, spices and chilies. The market for organic agricultural produce is growing in the US and in the local South Boston community. The competitive advantage of the firm will be in application of marketing strategies in beating the competition and attracting customers in Continue reading...

- Pecans FMCG holdings is a company that was established as a limited liability partnership. The name if the company is an acronym for the three partners, namely Peter, Cathy and Naphtali, who contributed to the establishment of the company. The initial FMCG are initial which means fast moving consumer goods that the company deals with. The company will be an exceptional and unique firm which will be guided by the sole purpose of filling the gap that exists in the supply chain distribution of many local organizations. The organizational culture is built with an objective to facilitate and provide Continue reading...

Sharing economy is a socioeconomic system involving the interaction and sharing of goods and services. These services could include, but not limited to the production, creation, distribution, consumption and trading of goods and services. The sharing economy has seen a steady rise over the years due to recent technological advances. Technology has played a major role in that it has made it very easy to transact business with individuals without physical interaction. It has become much easier to access car rentals, designer clothes, hotel bookings, central city parking space and online ticketing with a simple call or a click Continue reading...

Investment Management

Investment Management

Introduction

This paper entails a discussion of two key principles investment management that are currently in play in today`s financial markets. The first part of the paper entails a discussion on the Capital Asset Pricing Model and its subsequent application to a real life situation. The second part of the paper entails a discussion on assessment of the performances of two respective mutual and pension funds that are invested in Argentinian junk bonds.

According to Levy (2011, pg. 55), the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is used in the determination of the required rate of return of Continue reading...