University of Chicago Press Volume ISBN: 0-226-10726-4 Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/clar06-2 Conference Date: June 1-2, 2005 Publication Date: May 2007 Title: The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account Author: Aart Kraay, Jaume Ventura URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c0124 11 The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura 11.1 Introduction Since the early 1990s, the United States has experienced steadily widening
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of the Amazon case study, page 444, Marketing Management, 14th edition, Kotler and Keller from the perspective of the writer. Discussion In nearly eighteen years of existence, Amazon has never found it hard to attract investors. When the dot com bubble burst, Amazon was one of the few survivors. Within a year of the general collapse, Amazon declared its first profitable quarter. What has been remarkable is Amazon’s ability to structure its business model in unexpected ways. Because of the massive
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1. What is the intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? The institutions and their roles are as below: * Venture capitalists: VC’s provide capital to high potential, high risk companies in their early stages of development. In return they seek to provide very high rate of return to their investors for the associated risk. VC’s screen for good business ideas and management teams from the bad ones. They
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Jorge Porres August 18, 2013 Investments Keiser University Week 3 Essays 1. Industry Life Cycle: Discuss the industry life cycle, how this concept can be used by security analysts, and the limitations of this concept for security analysis. The industry life cycle is made up of five stages: 1. Pioneer phase: This face is characterized by the high cost of production and the low demand of the product by the market. Mostly made up of start-ups. 2. Growth phase: When sales start to grow
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1) What factors led to IBM’s success during the 1960’s and 1970s and its problems during the late 1980 and early1990s? IBM’s success in the 1960’s and 1970’s was driven by the vision of CEO Thomas Watson Jr. as evidenced by IBM’s $5 billion development investment into the System/360, “the biggest privately financed commercial project ever”. The System/360, “transformed the industry”, along with IT innovations such as development of the FORTRAN, the hard disk, the floppy disk, IBM supermarket checkout
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CASE STUDY: THE ROLE OF CAPITAL MARKET INTERMEDIARIES IN THE DOT-COM CRASH OF 2000 Question 1 Venture Capitalists: The intended role should be to fund effectively picked out unlisted growth companies with promising business ideas and talented value driven management teams from those companies that do not reflect these characteristics. As VC’s typically encounter high risk upon investing, they also demand a high return that often comes in the form of a sell out of shares after an IPO. Putting
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Kunchok Wangmo Amazon Business Model Due date- March 17,2013 Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company, initially started off as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. An American entrepreneur named Jeffrey Preston Bezos founded it in 1994. It has employees over or around 28,300. It is the global leader in e-commerce. It is mostly known for its wide range of
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1.Strategic Directions Although Cyclermate management have persuaded the bank to continue funding for the short-term, the directors of the company realise that they have to think about the longer term. Further discussion with Dai’s cousin have established that he continues to be interested in helping, both in financial and management terms. Furthermore, he has apparently persuaded the famous entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Sir Claude Solstice to consider the possibility of involvement in
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1. a) Venture capitalists (VCs): Provide capital for companies in early stages of development. Screen good business ideas and entrepreneurial teams from bad ones. Provide high rate of return to their investors for the associated risk. Employ experienced and savvy business people to work closely with portfolio companies. Monitor and guide companies into a well managed, fully functional company that can stand on its own, and ready to face public capital market’s scrutiny after an IPO. b) Investment
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Ten Rules for Web Startups #1: Be Narrow Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful. Most companies start out trying to do too many things, which makes life difficult and turns you into a me-too. Focusing on a small niche has so many advantages: With much less work, you can be the best at what you do. Small things, like a microscopic world, almost always turn out to be bigger than you think when you zoom in. You can much more easily position
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