different types of business models: • E-commerce: Lazada (South-East Asia)‚ Jumia (Africa) and Linio (Latin America) are the copycat venture of Amazon ; Zalando (Europe)‚ Zalora (South-East Asia) and Dafiti (Brazil) are the copycat venture of Zappos • Marketplace: Wimdu is the copycat venture of Airbnb • Finance: Lendico is the copycat venture of Lending club Ventures are designed to be sustainably profitable on their own but Rocket Internet may choose to exit and sell them to competitors as well
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characterized by networks of international linkages that bind countries‚ institutions‚ and people in an interdependent global economy. Economic integration results from the lessening of trade barriers and the increased flow of goods and services‚ Capital labor‚ and technology around the world. The invisible hand of global competition is being propelled by the phenomenon of an increasingly borderless world‚ by technological advancements‚ and by the rise of developing economies such as China and India
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edocs‚ Inc. Carlos Pero 3/3/04 edocs is an Internet company that is looking for venture capital to take their product to market. With friends and family financing‚ they were able to complete the first stage of product development; a worthy accomplishment considering many business plans typically need a seed round to get that far. Unfortunately‚ it seems the local venture capital market has been uninterested in them or the opportunity. By working their network of contacts‚ they were lucky to gain
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personal use only. THE SOCIOLOGY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP Patricia H. Thornton Department of Sociology‚ Duke University‚ Durham‚ North Carolina 27708; e-mail: thornton@soc.duke.edu KEY WORDS: entrepreneurs‚ new ventures‚ organizational founding‚ demand side perspective‚ intrapreneurship‚ venture capital‚ initial public offerings‚ ABSTRACT Recent research on entrepreneurship by sociologists has focused on subsectors of the discipline rather than on entrepreneurship as a class. This review draws insights
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Note on business model analysis for the entrepreneur‚ Taz Pirmohamed‚ 2002 (9-802-048) Reinventing your business model(R0812C) (Chinese translation in哈佛商業評論繁體中文版2008年12月號：商業模式再創新) 3. (3/06) Managing the risk of early ventures Beating the odds when you launch a new venture (R1005G) (Chinese translation in 哈佛商業評論繁體中文版2010年9月號：管控風險的創業冒險家) Case study: R&R（9-386-019） 1) What is the opportunity in the Trivia game business? 2) Why is it an opportunity for Bob Reiss? 3) Why did others contribute
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introduction to raising finance When a company is growing rapidly‚ for example when contemplating investment in capital equipment or an acquisition‚ its current financial resources may be inadequate. Few growing companies are able to finance their expansion plans from cash flow alone. They will therefore need to consider raising finance from other external sources. In addition‚ managers who are looking to buy-in to a business ("management buy-in" or "MBI") or buy-out (management buy-out" or "MBO")
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individually‚ therefore she had tapped local venture capital sources to finance the second and third phases of the project and decided to take the company public to raise further cash to buy them out and to further fund the operations. Identify the economic agents or “actors” and their potential motivations? The major economic actors in this case include Karen Burrows and the other industry players like Samsung‚ Sony‚ General electric and the Venture Capital Firms. Karen was a young and energetic lady
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creativity involved. Entrepreneurship ranges in scale from solo projects (even involving the entrepreneur only part-time) to major undertakings creating many job opportunities. Many "high value" entrepreneurial ventures seek venture capital or angel funding (seed money) in order to raise capital to build the business. Angel investors generally seek annualized returns of 20-30% and more‚ as well as extensive involvement in the business. Many kinds of organizations now exist to support would-be entrepreneurs
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DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES INTRODUCTION 3-3 REPORT CONTENT TASK 1‚ SOURCES OF FINANCE Identify the sources available to the Business 4-4 Implications of different Sources of Finance 5-10 Choosing the appropriate source of finance for the business 10-10 TASK 2‚ FINANCE AS A RESOURCE 2.1 Assessing and comparing the cost of selected sources of Finance 11-12 2.2 Importance of Financial Planning 13-13 2.3 Information needs of different decision makers 14-15 TASK
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