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How Vcs Work

 In the past few posts we've looked at various startup situations from an entrepreneur's perspective. In this and the next few posts, we'll take a look at how the people on the other side of the table, namely the venture capitalists work. It is important to get a perspective of how the other side thinks and works if you want to build a mutually beneficial relationship. It is important to recognize that the entrepreneur and the VC are on the same team and have a congruence of goals - namely the building of a successful company. All the happens before investment. As in all partnerships, if the relationship between the VC and the entrepreneur is viewed with suspicion and in an antagonistic manner, the VC-entrepreneur tussles in the board-room will kill the company. Having said that, let us know take a peek behind the curtains at how VC firms operate. In this post, let us get an understanding of the overall VC situation. VC firms collect money from investors and then invest th...

How to Get Your Business

 Contrary to popular belief, business plans do not generate business financing . True, there are many kinds of financing options that require a business plan, but nobody invests in a business plan. Investors need a business plan as a document that communicates ideas and information, but they invest in a company, in a product, and in people. Small business financing myths: Venture capital is a growing opportunity for funding businesses. Actually, venture capital financing is very rare. I'll explain more later, but assume that only a very few high-growth plans with high-power management teams are venture opportunities. Bank loans are the most likely option for funding a new business . Actually, banks don't finance business start-ups. I'll have more on that later, too. Banks aren't supposed to invest depositors' money in new businesses. Business plans sell investors. Actually, they don't well-written and convincing business plan (and pitch) can sell investors on y...

By No Means Miss A Recipe From Bbc Good Food

What Is Technology? The Olympic Games started with a precept of amateur competitors with those that practised a sport professionally thought of to have an unfair benefit over those who practised it merely as a pastime. From 1971, Olympic athletes had been allowed to receive compensation and sponsorship, and from 1986, the IOC determined to make all professional athletes eligible for the Olympics , with the exceptions of boxing, and wrestling. Japan, one of the few non-Western nations where conventional sports nonetheless rival modern ones in reputation, can be one of the few non-Western nations to contribute significantly to the repertory of contemporary sports. Judo, invented in 1882 by Kanō Jigorō in an effort to combine Western and Asian traditions, attracted European adherents early within the 20th century. Cricket and rugby seemed to require British rule so as to take root. And do understand that the guidelines depart lots of room for personalization. This is on function as a r...