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DefinitionFinancing of the first phase of growth of a new venture that moves from the startup to sales. Money is used to buy inventory and to sustain the gap existing between cash flow and the money needed Risk-return profileMoney is used to finance the first steps of a “baby firm.” ...
Blockchain technology and startup financing: A transaction cost economics perspectiveSaurabh Ahluwalia aRaj V. Mahto bMaribel Guerrero c dTechnological Forecasting and Social Change
We greatly prefer something new to somethingderivative. Most really big companies start with something fundamentally new (one acceptable definition of new is 10x better.) If there are ten other companies starting at the same time with the same plan, and it sounds a whole lot like something that...
If you have “traction,” highlight your traction. Get used to this word; it is a vague term of art, but you'll be asked about it incessantly for the next few years. The best definition of it is “quantitative evidence of product/market fit.” Definitions are diverse because businesses...
Even his mathematics is simple. His definition of convexity is a little strange though I found it interested (I teach convex optimization, and you might not know, it was the topic of my PhD!). Jensen inequality is interesting [Pages 342, 227 – Jensen was an amateur mathematician!]– the...
While for policy makers, success of a start-up might be best expressed in the creation of jobs and value added to the overall economy of the region, the most important definition of success for an entrepreneur might be the realization of his dream. By contrast, for a venture capitalist ...
In Abbildung 2 ist der Aufbau und die Definition des immateriellen Vermögens dargestellt. Unter dem Begriff Beziehungskapital lassen sich die Be- ziehungen zu Kunden und Lieferanten, also einerseits der sogenannte Kunden- stock, die Kundenzufriedenheit sowie die Vertriebs- und Bezugsstrukturen...
enter into the realm of psychology and neuroscience. That’s where the definition lies. Radical uncertainty, like so much else, is too important to be left to the realm of economics alone. –She will be part of“Innovation: Do Private Returns Produce the Social Returns We Need?” ...
Step 1. Idea / product type definition Let’s look at the basics. What kind of products are there anyway? We may structure them into 3 types: Painkillers 💊– products that drastically change the approach to solving the problem at the time of the launch. The competition in...