...Q1. Why is it difficult to establish a new fund? Why is track record so important in fund raising? The main concern is to convince the investors to invest their money in Gobi. Therefore, it is necessary to raise a rational-sized fund. To raise a new fund is not an easy thing to do as everything including the fund structure, team, approach, LP base, and amount of capital have to be defined appropriately. The general partners also need to contribute their own money in order to convince the investors to invest together with them. The track record is very important in fund raising because if Gobi has a good track record, more investors will be interested to invest in it. Q2. Prepare a SWOT analysis for Gobi Fund II proposal in the context of venture capital fundraising. STRENGTHS: * Gobi operates in an area where there is a lot of pent up demand (IT and digital media). * Gobi can acts like a bridge for western LPs to invest in Chinese companies. WEAKNESSES: * It is difficult to raise a new fund and if Gobi do not really have a good track record, it will become harder to gain the investors trust in order to raise the new funds. OPPORTUNITIES: * May have the advantage in acquiring a higher return from investment in the IT and media market since they already invest in that industry during the early stage. Meaning that they already have the experiences in investing in IT industry, therefore, may not become a problem to earn a high return. THREATS: * May not...
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...CHAPTER 30 1500 B.C China had a complex society. 60 B.C Han empire. Europeans began to arrive in the 1500 and 1600s. Asian countries restricted movement of western traders. Netherlands conquered Indonesia. Many European nations and the U.S caused Asian countries to open trade. 1868 Japan had a new government. 1940 conquered Korea, Taiwan. WW2 U.S liberated. 1949 nationalist fled to Taiwan. !960 former Europeans gained independence. 1990 has some capitalist reforms. PHYSICAL: Eurasian and Indian plate colliding causes; Himalaya Mts, Plateau of Tibet, the Kunlun Shun, Atlun Shun, and the Tien Shun. Volcanic islands form the Ring of Fire. Mekong River has curved valleys through the highlands. Australia is largely arid. CLIMATES: Cities in the tropics have seasonal temperatures. Temperate coastal locations. South of the equator monsoons peak in January. Peak in July. Heavy downpours. ECOSYSTEMS: Coniferous forests in the north, mountains, mid-latitude forests of deciduous trees. In rainforests high rainfall and temperatures and the forest in Malaysia. Line coasts of northern Australia and E and SE Asia. Grasslands in China and Mongolia. E Asia and Australia, and New Zealand have deciduous forests. Bears and monkeys. PEOPLES AND CULTURES: 2 billion people. China has over 1 billion people. North central plains, Southern coast of East China, and in the Yangtze River. Australia is spaced. Great cultural diversity. 3/4s of the population is rural. 85 of Australians are in...
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...Environmental problems facing Mongolia include desertification, inadequate water supply, and air and water pollution. The presence of the Gobi Desert in the southeastern part of the country and mountains in the northwest provide natural limits to the amount of agricultural land. Areas affected by deforestation and excessive grazing are eventually overtaken by the desert. Water pollution is a particularly significant problem in Mongolia because the water supply is so limited. The country has only 34.8 cubic kilometers of renewable water resources, 53% of which are used for farming. In 2000, only 77% of city dwellers and 30% of the people living in rural areas had access to pure water. The country's air pollution problems are due to increased industrial activity within the country, including the burning of soft coal, and airborne industrial pollution from the former Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The heavy concentration of factories in Ulaanbaatar has polluted the environment in that area. Przewalski's horse, the Bactrian camel, the snow leopard, and the saiga are among 12 mammals and 14 birds which are considered endangered. The Mongolian wild horse has become extinct in the wild. After a winter of little snow, wildfires spread across northern Mongolia from March until June of 1996. The fires were the most extensive since records were first compiled in 1978, resulting in 26 deaths and nearly 800 people injured or rendered shelterless. An estimated...
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...Interesting post. While agree with specific points in your discussion, there are a few that I disagree with. With the largest capital reserves in the world, People's Republic of China is a credible threat on numerous fronts, however; PRC is only an emerging regional power with a fragile economy. At the same time, the threat that PRC poses is somewhat exaggerated by our own Congress. The war hawks on capitol hill, namely the neo-conservatives, are notorious for ensuring that the U.S. always has a credible enemy or rival (PRC is not yet an enemy)...and if one is not emerging on the horizon, then one will be "created". This has alot to do with insuring that the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) continues to thrive. The MIC accounts for more than 42% of global military sales. With that being said, PRC of course looks like an 800 pound gorilla, but the country has some mounting weakness that will begin to compound over time, and will invariably threaten PRC's economic & social reform programs...which could lead to numerous fault lines within its own borders. 1. PRC is an export economy: With the global recession still in full stride, the unemployment rate between the G8 and BRIC-M countries is hovering at approximately 8%. The rates are vastly more dismal for the rest of the world (CIA World Factbook). Therefore, the global demand for Chinese manufactures has declined dramatically, thereby, leading to the layoff of tens of millions of Chinese citizens. If the country’s...
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...Mongolia’s economic development as an essential resource for industries such as the mining sector, which has driven the country’s economic growth. Water quantity and quality is also becoming a problem increasingly in the capital Ulaanbaatar. With nearly 50 percent of the population living in Ulaanbaatar, ensuring that there is sufficient and safe water for everyone is a challenge. Water resources of Mongolia are highly vulnerable to climatic conditions. Mongolia has harsh continental climate with four distinctive seasons, high annual temperature fluctuations, and low rainfall. As a result of climate change, hundreds of Mongolia’s lakes and rivers have dried up, and there is significant desertification of land especially in the south around the Gobi desert. Providing a clean supply of drinking water across the entire country is a difficult challenge – beginning with the need to lay freeze-proof water pipes over an area of 1.5 million square kilometers. We should teach children to turn off faucets tightly after use, adjust sprinklers to water your lawn.We have to use high quality water to prevent from some diseases.The most important thing is government have to implement project of water quality and...
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...in the Nike Team Nationals California Region rankings. Read More Far Ahead El Rancho High School opened its 2005 season in promising fashion, delivering a 33-14 win Friday over Cerritos at Gahr High School.The victorious Dons enjoyed a productive night on the ground, rushing for 163 total yards. Mike Perez led the way with 83 yards on 16 carries. Read More In the Desert UKHAA TOLGOD, Mongolia - On the first afternoon here, fossil hunters struck out across the parched sand to the rock outcrops along the bleached brown ridges and down into the broad basin. They walked their separate courses at paces as if set to geologic time. With every step, their figures diminished into the expanse of empty silences and far horizons that is the Gobi Desert, where only camels, nomads and hardy paleontologists seem at home. Read More The Fall Season "Supernatural," on WB, is genuinely scary. But there are half a dozen other...
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...With 1.4 billion living souls in China, it is by far the most populated country in the world. It is located straight south of Mongolia (although part of China surrounds Mongolia), northeast of India, northwest of the South China Sea, and west of Japan. Its global coordinates are 35.86° N and 104.2° E. Because of its size, many climate regions exist within China’s territory. The southwest contains the plateau of Tibet. With an elevation of 14,000 feet, it is the highest plateau in the world! The Gobi Desert is in the northern area of China and southern area of Mongolia. It occupies approximately 500,000 square miles of area which is calculated to be over 10% of China’s surface area! This qualifies much of China uninhabitable without...
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...the shielded slopes, there is little moisture left. The descending air warms up, making it difficult for clouds to form and creates a desert landscape. Death Valley, in the U.S. states of California and Nevada, is a rain shadow desert. Death Valley, the lowest and driest place in North America, is in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Interior deserts, which are found in the heart of continents, exist because no moisture packed winds reach them. By the time air masses from coastal areas reach the interior, they have lost all their moisture (much like what happens in subtropical deserts).Interior deserts are sometimes also called inland deserts. The Gobi Desert, in China and Mongolia, lies hundreds of kilometres from the ocean and when winds finally reach the Gobi, they have already lost their moisture. The Gobi is also in the rain shadow of the Himalaya Mountains to the south. Parts of the Arctic and the Antarctic are classified as deserts because they experience very little precipitation. These polar deserts actually contain great quantities of water, but most of it is locked in glaciers and ice sheets all year-round. So, despite the presence of millions of litres of water, there is actually little available for plants and animals. The largest desert in the world is also the coldest (the largest hot desert is the Sahara but since the Antarctic is not hot, it is considered the largest desert even though it is much larger than the Sahara). Almost the entire continent...
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...believe in a strong and organized government. Buddhist believed in reincarnation. They believed that reincarnation was based on living a good life. They also believed in Karma. Karma is the theory that your actions will come back to you whether good or bad. The geography of China is made up of mountains, deserts and rivers. The two most important rivers were the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. They were a good source for food, water, and transportation. The Himalayan Mountains are located in China. They are the tallest mountains in the world. They isolated China from enemies. They were also considered sacred. Two of the largest deserts in the world are in China. They are the Gobi and the Taklamakan Desert. They were large and helped to keep the Chinese isolated. The Mongols lived in the Gobi desert and raided the Chinese. That is why the Great Wall of China was built. ...
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...Equity[edit] The declaration highlighted the inequity between the developed and the developing countries and termed it politically, socially and economically unacceptable. Health as a socio-economic issue and as a human right[edit] The third section called for economic and social development as a pre-requisite to the attainment of health for all. It also declared positive effects on economic and social development and on world peace through promotion and protection of health of the people. Participation of people as a group or individually in planning and implementing their health care was declared as a human right and duty. Role of the state[edit] This section emphasized on the role of the state in providing adequate health and social measures. This section enunciated the call for "Health for All" which became a campaign of the WHO in the coming years. It defined Health for All as the attainment by all peoples of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. The declaration urged governments, international organizations and the whole world community to take this up as a main social target in the spirit of social justice. Primary health care and components[edit] This section defined primary health care and urged signatories to incorporate the concept of primary health care in their health systems. Primary health care has since been adopted by many member nations. More recently, Margaret Chan...
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...China is one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, dating back to the Bronze Age. Today, China is the world’s most populated country with a quickly growing economy. Throughout China’s evolution from an ancient civilization to a monumental country, the Yangtze and Huang He rivers, the Himalayan and Kunlun mountain ranges, the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts, the Yellow and East China Seas, and the Pacific Ocean all played an important role in the development of its culture and history. Like most of the world’s first civilizations, China formed around rivers, mainly the Huang He and the Yangtze, due to the many advantages rivers offered (Geography). They provided fertile land for farming that the Chinese economy traditionally depended on (“Central”)....
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...Garth Stein references Mongolia in his novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain, when Enzo says “In Mongolia, when a dog dies, he is buried high in the hills so people cannot walk on his grave. The dog’s master whispers in the dog’s ear his wishes that the dog will return as a man in his next life. Then his tail is cut off and put beneath his head, and a piece of meat of fat is cut off and placed in his mouth to sustain his soul for its journey; before he is reincarnated, the dog’s soul is freed to travel the land, to run across the high desert plains for as long as it would like.I learned that from a program on the National Geographic Channel, so I believe it is true. Not all dogs return as men, they say; only those who are ready. I am ready.”...
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...Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in east-central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and also the largest city, is home to about 45% of the population. Mongolia's political system is a parliamentary republic. The area of what is now Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, the Turkic Khaganate, and others. In 1206, Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire, and his grandson Kublai Khan conquered China to establish the Yuan Dynasty. After the collapse of the Yuan, the Mongols retreated to Mongolia and resumed their earlier pattern of factional conflict except the era of Dayan Khan and Tumen Zasagt Khan. In the 16th centuries, Tibetan Buddhism began to spread in Mongolia and it has been accelerated by the unwavering support of Qing governments after Mongolia had been incorporated by the Qing dynasty. In the 1900s, almost half of the adult male population were Buddhist monks.[12][13] By the mid-18th century, all of Mongolia had been incorporated into the area ruled by the Manchus' Qing Dynasty. During the collapse of the Qing Dynasty the Mongols established Temporary Government of Khalkha in 30 November 1911, before the abdication of the last Qing emperor and the establishment of the Republic of China. On 29 December 1911 Mongolia declared independence from the Qing Dynasty and this National Liberation Revolution ended 220 years of Manchu rule...
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...Hi guys,we chose a company to show you and evaluate how well infographics used in its official website. This ppt includes three sections,the first section will introduce a company which is Land Rover.The second part is body,we will evaluate some visualization techniques which were applied to official website design and the third part will summarize all infographics mentioned above. OK, let me give you a little bit of information about our topic.Stated simply,the automobile industry is a industry which designs cars,manufactures cars and sells cars.Especially It is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue. Next comes the company Land Rover which we are gonna take it as a example.Land rover is a English car brand and it offers a wide selection of SUV. Then I’m gonna show you guys some infographics which I select from the website www.landrover.ca.When you input the website address you will see this picture and then you can click here (vehicle) to enter the next page.So you will see this picture,showing all Land Rover’s vehicles to viewers directly.Obviously,altogether they have 5 models on sales.You might think why they use this picture right here.In my view pictures probably have more impact and power than financial graphs,because they connect directly with organizations through abstract forms. And then when you scroll down your mouse you can see this five models with a bit more detail and clear.I think a successful infographics needs to be unique,simple...
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...China’s landscape is vast and diverse, with forest steppes and the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts occupying the arid north and northwest near Mongolia and Central Asia, and subtropical forests being prevalent in the wetter south near Southeast Asia. The terrain of western China is rugged and elevated, with the towering Himalaya, Karakorum, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain separating China from South and Central Asia. The world’s apex, Mt. Everest (8,848 m), and second-highest point, K2 (8,611 m), lie on China's borders, respectively, with Nepal and Pakistan. The country’s lowest and the world’s third-lowest point, Lake Ayding (-154 m), is located in the Turpan Depression. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third- and sixth-longest in the world, have their sources in the Tibetan Plateau and continue to the densely populated eastern seaboard. China’s coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometres (9,000 mi) long (the 11th-longest in the world), and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East and South China Seas. The ancient Chinese civilization—one of the world's earliest—flourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain.[19] China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, known as dynasties, beginning with the semi-mythological Xia of the Yellow River basin (approx. 2000 BCE) and ending with the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. Since the Qin Dynasty first conquered several states to form China in 221 BCE, the country has fractured and been...
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