Essays on Venture Capitalist

The Finance Department of firms provides correct and appropriate sources of equity capital for any new venture or start-up business to begin their operations. Any entrepreneur interested in new venture stocks up the equity capital provided by the finance department of strong firms or individuals and begins the operations. Equity capital is defined as capital cash that is free of debt provided by the business or investor to start the operation of any company. Equity capital investment done by the firms is in the form of issuing shares of the company to the firm who invested in it. Firms ...

1. Why do venture capitalists put so much emphasis on experience and completeness? Venture capitalist prefer to invest in established and experienced firms, rather than in startups or towards new innovations. This is because, a product that is already developed and tested, is likely to give back immediate or sure returns, when compared to untested innovations and less experienced startups. Risk associated with investing in less experienced and incompletely tested products and business enterprise, can deter venture capitalist. For these reasons they emphasis on experience and completeness. 2. Founders often end up in very different situations to the ones ...

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The growing cost of college education has raised debates about how viable a college degree is. These debates are further fueled by required knowledge and skill sets required for current job market. Given current unemployment rates (coming in heel of an unprecedented economic recession), investment in college education has not only become a financial burden long after graduation but is also becoming, critically, less rewarding from a job prospect perspective. Indeed, "overeducated" college graduates – particularly ones completing an undergraduate or a higher degree in software engineering or digital media majors – are experiencing particularly painful job experiences, particularly during early ...

This paper highlights the guidelines to be used for effective presentation of a newly established business venture’s business plan to a venture capitalist. The potential venture capitalist should be an early stage financing venture capitalist. Early stage financing capitalists is appropriate because the established venture is in a stage that demands seed financing, start up financing and first stage financing for the purposes of start up and for finishing the developments of its products. First stage financing will be eligible as will enable the business to start its activities at full-scale (Metrick, 2006). The type of financial information that should ...