...Media Ventures 15.376 Real Estate & Recruitment – A strategic Analysis Introduction: During this semester our team examined two key issues that have a significant impact on the lives of many working professionals: real estate and recruitment. Though these two issues appear to be disjointed, they have a similarly significant financial impact of the quality of life of most individuals in the world. Real Estate: I. Background: The real estate industry is in a unique state of flux brought on by the proliferation of the sharing economy. The advent of AirBnB, UBER, Lyft, Zip CAR have effectively demonstrated that communal ownership of an asset is often much more efficient than singular ownership, provided an efficient channel for distribution and use of the asset exists. Though AirBnB has made great strides towards bringing home ownership into the fold of the sharing economy, an analysis of the notion and future of home ownership indicate that substantial room for innovation exists in addressing the pain points associated with the use of property. II. Pain Points: Despite the innovation of recent years, homeowners continue to be plagued by several persistent pain points related to liquidity, taxation, equity and maintenance of property. Liquidity: Real estate still remains largely an illiquid asset due to the high costs associated with the sale of property. No reliable peer-to-peer network exists for the sale of property, thereby leaving homeowners...
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...How to Raise Money Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. September 2013 Most startups that raise money do it more than once. A typical trajectory might be (1) to get started with a few tens of thousands from something like Y Combinator or individual angels, then (2) raise a few hundred thousand to a few million to build the company, and then (3) once the company is clearly succeeding, raise one or more later rounds to accelerate growth. Reality can be messier. Some companies raise money twice in phase 2. Others skip phase 1 and go straight to phase 2. And at Y Combinator we get an increasing number of companies that have already raised amounts in the hundreds of thousands. But the three phase path is at least the one about which individual startups' paths oscillate. This essay focuses on phase 2 fundraising. That's the type the startups we fund are doing on Demo Day, and this essay is the advice we give them. Forces Fundraising is hard in both senses: hard like lifting a heavy weight, and hard like solving a puzzle. It's hard like lifting a weight because it's intrinsically hard to convince people to part with large sums of money. That problem is irreducible; it should be hard. But much of the other kind of difficulty can be eliminated. Fundraising only seems a puzzle because it's an alien world to most founders, and I hope to fix that by supplying a map through it. To founders, the behavior of investors is often opaque—partly because...
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...Republic of the Philippines Central Mindanao University College of Commerce and Accountancy Accountancy Department IMPLICATIONS OF SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 TO CORPORATIONS In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Accy 99 Synthesis Submitted by Jess Charls P. Mojello Submitted to: Ms. Dynnith F. Suaberon, CPA, MBM Instructor May 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I Introduction 1 Statement of the Problem 2 Scope and Delimitation of the Study 3 Significance of the Study 3 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 4 Background 4 A. The Securities Act of 1933 4 B. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 4 C. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 5 D. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 5 Title I – Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies 6 Title II – Access to Capital for Job Creators 13 CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY 16 Research Design 17 Locale of the Study 17 Data Gathering Procedure 18 Statistical Methods and Analysis Used 18 CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA 19 CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 29 REFERENCES 31 CHAPTER I Introduction Several studies have shown a substantial decrease in the number of IPOs and in start-up capital formation in years before the JOBS Act implementation in the global market. Authorities have also observed that for some time the inhospitable environment and overly burdensome...
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...How to Raise Money Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. September 2013 Most startups that raise money do it more than once. A typical trajectory might be (1) to get started with a few tens of thousands from something like Y Combinator or individual angels, then (2) raise a few hundred thousand to a few million to build the company, and then (3) once the company is clearly succeeding, raise one or more later rounds to accelerate growth. Reality can be messier. Some companies raise money twice in phase 2. Others skip phase 1 and go straight to phase 2. And at Y Combinator we get an increasing number of companies that have already raised amounts in the hundreds of thousands. But the three phase path is at least the one about which individual startups' paths oscillate. This essay focuses on phase 2 fundraising. That's the type the startups we fund are doing on Demo Day, and this essay is the advice we give them. Forces Fundraising is hard in both senses: hard like lifting a heavy weight, and hard like solving a puzzle. It's hard like lifting a weight because it's intrinsically hard to convince people to part with large sums of money. That problem is irreducible; it should be hard. But much of the other kind of difficulty can be eliminated. Fundraising only seems a puzzle because it's an alien world to most founders, and I hope to fix that by supplying a map through it. To founders, the behavior of investors is often opaque—partly because...
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...Momentum 2014 Middle-Market Private Equity Outlook A CohnReznick LLP Report FEBRUARY 2014 Table of Contents Today’s Private Equity Business Environment.................1 Critical Issues Facing Private Equity in 2014...................6 Private Equity Due Diligence Focus................................24 The Road Ahead..................................................................29 A CohnReznick Report 3 Preface The private equity (PE) industry is well-positioned for an optimistic 2014. After five challenging years, there were a number of positive developments for the industry in 2013, including a rebound in fundraising and a record $120 billion returned to investors in private equity. mo • men • tum noun: the impetus gained by a moving object Overall, 2013 will be remembered as a solid year for private equity. Although the year started off slowly, activity picked up considerably in the second half, particularly in the world of exits. The fourth quarter of 2013 was one of the strongest quarters on record for PE exits, attributable largely to a robust IPO market. The key topic that must be considered in projecting the industry’s outlook for 2014 is whether it can build upon this momentum, or whether the industry’s capital overhang and competition for quality deals will prove too great a resistive force. While we’ll analyze the industry in its broadest sense, our focus is decidedly on the outlook for middle-market private equity firms―those firms with...
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...Note from the Authors: “Creative Entrepreneurship” was born out of the desire, want and curiosity of kbs+’s staff to understand the crazy world of entrepreneurship. “Creative Entrepreneurship” curates the perspectives of leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists as a guide for people interested in learning more. Each writer graciously contributed their work to create a curated resource for creative entrepreneurs. This book is the teaching and inspirational aid for our kbs+ Ventures Fellows – a highly select group of kbs+ staffers from all levels and areas of the agency – who go through a six-month educational program to immerse themselves in the startup and venture capital world. Share this entrepreneurial inspiration with friends using @kbspvc or #kbspvcbook. If you would like to share any inspiration, thoughts or feedback, please contact us at @kbspvc anytime – we look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for downloading our book! Darren Herman Taylor Davidson Creative Entrepreneurship Darren Herman Taylor Davidson a kbs+ partner We have received explicit permission from all authors of the works found in this book. Unless otherwise stated, we do not claim to have written or own any of this work. We are purely aggregating it into a simple book format for the education of anyone who picks up this book. The price of this book is free; if anyone tries to sell this book to you, please report them to us. Hopefully this book inspires you as much as it does...
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...number 01 InsIght Into the onlIne CapItal BerlIn With contributions from Alexander Kudlich, Ansgar Oberholz, Michael Brehm, Mathias Döpfner, Carsten Maschmeyer, Christian Reber, Jan Beckers, Fabian Heilemann, Fabian Siegel, Florian Heinemann, Ijad Madisch, Jens Begemann, Klaus Hommels, Lukasz Gadowski, Joel Kaczmarek and 85 other great minds. „ BerlIn has the most potentIal of all CItIes In europe“ peteR tHIeL * Peter Thiel, Former CEO of PayPal, first investor of Facebook and partner of the venture capital firm, Founders Fund. ENJOY BERLIN VALLEY! HUNDERT IS A PROJECT FROM BERLINVALLEY.COM DAILY NEWS FROM THE BERLIN ONLINE SCENE WHAT A gREAT FAMILY: HIRE! WE MODEL: JENNIFER IRMLER (WWW.MODEL-FABRIk.COM) PHOTO: MAx THRELFALL (WWW.THRELFALL-gOERS.DE) MAkEUP: BIANCA BENSCH (FACEBOOk.COM/BENSCHBIANCA) OUTFIT WITH FRIENDLY SUPPORT FROM PEPE JEANS (NEUE SCHöNHAUSER STRASSE) WE ARE LOOkINg FOR COOL INTERNS AND EDITORS, MALE OR FEMALE. CAREER CHANgERS WELCOMED. APPLY WITH 100 WORDS OR LESS AT PIMPMYFUTURE@WHY-BERLIN.COM the hundert Register now, and receive every issue by mail for free! introduCtion Klaus Wowereit KlauS WoWereit haS been the governing mayor of berlin Since 2001, and the longeSt Serving head of government in office of any german State. Governing Mayor of Berlin Hundert Continues as a series! We are very excited about the response that “Hundert – insight on the Online Capital Berlin” has received. Therefore...
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