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    2014). RESOURCE NEEDS OF THE PROGRAM To enable La Trobe to transform the innovation or idea of students into new and vibrant business ventures, the University needs to allocate a small portion of its budget to program. This budget can be pegged to the average budget needed to start up a venture, 35,000 AUD (Beesley, 2013). The time of some of its faculty members are also needed to ensure that the venture is well reviewed and planned, lessening the risk of the venture from failing. Initially, the program will just support 2 high potential ventures. The number of ventures supported will increase depending on the success of the initial ventures. As the portfolio of the La Trobe Venture Capital increase, the seed funding can also increase to fund bigger business ideas. 35,000 AUD and a couple of hours of some faculty members are risk free investments compared to the impact the program can produce in attracting students from around the world. Increasing the number of students enrolling to the university, improving the entrepreneurial acumen of the La Trobe graduates, and being part of the top 300 universities globally makes this Program worth doing even if the initial investment is not recovered. These makes the program to have no obvious disadvantage or any negative repercussions. However, to make the program more sustainable, it can be structured to ensure sufficient returns for the university. The Venture Capital Agreement can specify a 2% annual management fee and a 20% share…

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    If you have only equity financing (which either uses funds injected into the business or equity raised through share offerings), you won’t benefit from any of the tax deductions that debt financing provides, and if you only have debt financing, your financial leverage will be greater but your overall profits will suffer and you run the risk of becoming insolvent if you don’t remain liquid enough to pay your short term debt obligations. Therefore, conducting extensive research on the right mix…

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    1. Henry Kravis is a successful businessman and an American billionaire. He is a cofounder of firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), a private equity firm with about $94.3 billion in asset in 2013. (Wikipedia) He was born in 1944 and his father was a successful petroleum engineer. He studied economics, moved to New York, and worked in finance field. He went back to school in 1967 and enrolled in Columbia’s MBA program. He began to join partners at Bear Steams with his cousin George Roberts in the…

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    However,it needs to be seen who manages this corpus.The interference of Politicians or bureaucrats would inundate the already risky action plan since Start-ups lie at the extremity of the risk-reward category of investments.Also, the idea of common public investing into VC funds appears too luscious to be digested in.To top it all, just the genesis of Rs 10,000 crore won 't spur the growth of domestic capital industry since the size of corpus stands nowhere when the capital investment of last…

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    Purinex Case Study

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    financing might take six months to be finished. Hence, we are going to decide which the best option for the company that provide low risk, cash, and high values. First of all, if the company choose venture capital, the company would face large number of restrictions and it might be not the best option for the company. Nevertheless, the firm would ensure 10 million, this amount may take approximately 3 months to finish the company’s deal. The 10 million could be sufficient for research and…

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    University of Maryland. More specifically I will be pitching this idea to Justin Label, of Inner Loop Capital. Inner Loop Capital operates as a seed investment firm for developing technological start-ups. Justin has been quoted saying, “"I moved to Maryland in 2014 and began working as a full-time angel investor in 2015. The Dingman Center has been my ‘second office’ ever since. I met my first angel investment through the Dingman Center Angels. DCA is indispensable to my work as a Maryland…

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    1) Based on Lyle Wong case study, I consider Lyle as entrepreneur. The first reason is Lyle have big ideas. Lyle dream big and think big, he was come out with ideas that haven’t been tested and work on it before. And he believe that his ideas is possible to success if he try to work on it with right way. The second reason is that I can see in this case study, Lyle love to take risk. Entrepreneurship involves recognizing, and he being willing to accept the risk that the venture may success or…

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    Chameleon Shoes Case Study

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    In fact, bootstrapping is the best option because it does not put an entrepreneur in debt. This capital financing method is used in the pre start-up phase of a business such that the chameleon shoes venture is launched at low capital costs (www.business.govt.nz). Thereafter, it is purely funded from its profits as it is continually established. In this way, the business will not have to bear the burden of debt or give part the company’s ownership through equity. However, the disadvantage of this…

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    Angel investors might belong to a group of other angels in an attempt to pool their resources, and are mainly interested in start up businesses (Funds and financial, n.d.). One difference might just be where the business is at to draw attention from an angel investor as opposed to the venture capitalist. The venture capitalist could be more interested in where the company is at developmentally, and have studied the business model before they will invest (Funds and financial, n.d.). The venture…

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    Background The Blackstone Group (Blackstone) is a private equity firm founded in 1985 by two former employees of Lehman Brothers. In May 2007 the firm had $88.4 billion under management and had grown 41% annually since 2001.…

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