Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ New Venture Teams: A Review of the Literature and Roadmap for Future Research Anthony C. Klotz, Keith M. Hmieleski, Bret H. Bradley and Lowell W. Busenitz Journal of Management published online 26 June 2013 DOI: 10.1177/0149206313493325 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/06/26/0149206313493325 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association
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Executive Summary Entrepreneurs play a vital role in economic development as key contributors to technological innovation and new job growth. Further, entrepreneurs help build communities in ways such as providing jobs, conducting business locally, creating and participating in entrepreneurial networks, investing in community projects, and giving to local charities. Realizing both the economic and social impact of entrepreneurship, many states and local communities have implemented aggressive
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Partners’latest venture capital fund – Accel Partners VII. Accel was seeking to raise $500 million. The Angel Foundation had been a limited partner (investor) in Accel’s previous three funds – Accel Partners IV, V, and VI. Those funds had generated returns well above those typical for venture capital funds. In fact, the net returns to limited partners on Accel Partners IV and V were running above 100% per year. Exhibit 1 provides a recent record of historical returns for venture capital funds by
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting This page intentionally left blank Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting An International Perspective Douglas J. Cumming Associate Professor and Ontario Research Chair, York University – Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sofia A. Johan Senior Research Fellow, Tilburg Law and Economic Centre (TILEC), Tilburg, The Netherlands AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO •
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market value, they have no long term debt and continue to have a sizable customer base. There are two distinct sets of acquires that would be interested in purchasing RIM. First of which would be financial buyers such as private equity and venture capital firms. Financial buyers such as Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Bridgescale Partners, 3i Group Plc, Foundation capital and Bay Partners are firms who would potentially be interested because they currently specialize in technology
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BAB111 Revised January 12, 2005 ILinc Case Study of a Start Up “It’s been a long semester,” thought Mark Bernstein. “I have spent a lot of time with Degerhan working on our business plan for our proposed new venture, Interactive Learning Corporation, but can we really make it go? Should we even try? I’ve got a good job waiting for me with a large corporation. Is the upside potential of ILinc great enough to justify taking the risk?” Mark Bernstein and Degerhan Usluel knew each other from
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------------------------------------------------- MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS CHAPTER 6 1. The person who takes the risk of starting and managing a business to make a profit is called a(n): A. entrepreneur B. venture capitalist C. capitalistic adventurer D. franchiser ------------------------------------------------- E. ultra capitalist 2. Andy Yocom saw prime advertising space on the flags on the golf course. He reasoned that any marketing messages would get prominent attention
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TATA Capital Ltd. - Company overview History Tata Capital Limited is a subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited. The Company is registered with the Reserve Bank of India as a Systemically Important Non Deposit Accepting Core Investment Company and offers through itself and its subsidiaries fund and fee-based financial services to its customers. Headquartered in Mumbai, it has registered offices of its subsidiaries in Singapore and London. It is a trusted and customer-centric, one-stop financial solutions
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Questions: 1. Discuss the term “Initial Public Offering”. (4 marks) The tem initial Public Offering refers to a company stock market launch sale of stock for general public to purchase. It is the transformation of a private company/organization to a public company/organization. IPO is a way for the company/organisation to conjure more capital for its their business expansions This helps the company/organization to easily raise expansion capital to fund additional projects with positive cash
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through alliances in the airline industry: The AIR FRANCE- KLM/DELTA AIR LINES JOINT VENTURE In less than twenty years, the global industry has gone through tremendous change. Several airlines had gone out of business that had been on top of the industry for years. One of the remarkable changes had been airline alliances. The case focuses on the airline industry and how airlines are forming alliances and joint ventures. It then introduces the partner firms Air France KLM , and Delta . Air France
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