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'Underwhelming' response to desktop updates -- and the laptop vs. desktop equation
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Equity Financing
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| Most small or growth-stage businesses use equity financing in a limited way. As with debt financing, most of the time additional equity comes from non-professional investors such as friends, relatives, employees, customers or industry colleagues. |
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Private Equity Lessons for the Startup or Entrepreneurial Company
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| The November issue of the Harvard Business Review poses a tough question to the management of public companies: “What If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business?” The question comes on the heals of recent revelations that public companies are facing increased scrutiny by Private Equity funds both favorably as, for example, an acquisition target or adversely, as a mismanaged and underperforming asset in need of reform. The article goes on to identify five trends that develop when Private equity gets involved.
The purpose of this article is to highlight the premises upon which these five trends are based. Understanding this premise will lend valuable insight and strategic fodder for Start-up or Entrepreneurial companies as well as seasoned businesses.
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Start-up Financing & Equity: What is Dilution?
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| Equity dilution reapportions a stockholder’s percentage of equity (stock) in a company. Here’s a scenario to demonstrate how equity dilution works. |
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How to think out of the box regarding Equity
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| Equity is expensive and investors want to buy assets for 10 to 30 cents on the dollar. There are a number of different sources for equity that can be accessed. |
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Macs more expensive? Not if you consider TCO
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| Recently, two analysts said that the common perception of Macs as pricey items is indeed true. Richard Shim, an analyst at market research firm IDC, and Ian Lao, an analyst at In-Stat, said that, without significant price cuts, Macs continue to cost between 25 and 40 percent more than PC hardware of equivalent specs, say both Shim and Lao.The Sellers Research Firm disagrees. |
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China is No Longer an Emerging Economy!
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| As I woke Monday morning I saw that the Asian markets, particularly the Shanghai Composite, were selling off sharply. And I thought to myself, “oh no, here we go”. My general feeling is that the US equity market is overbought as the valuations haven’t quite caught up to price. Yet the US equity markets finished the day positive. What gives? |
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How to Determine Your Business Success with Financial Ratio
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| If you’ve ever wondered how well your business is doing - truly doing - one way to clear up the mystery is to use financial ratios. Financial ratios are used by accountants and bankers to evaluate everything from your current income ratio, to debts, to inventory, and even your return on sales or capital investments. A lower ratio means a more severe problem. Another important assessment step in financial ratios is estimating your debt equity ratio. The debt equity ratio compares debt and equity and the two types of capitalization. |
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Joint Venture Equity
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| Since institutional equity providers prefer larger deals, developers looking for $3 million in equity, for example, have a hard time getting their attention. But if an organization has the capacity to do seven deals a year, for instance, then the amount of equity inches up in the aggregate of $20 million to $30 million over 12 months, and it hits the threshold where it makes sense. |
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Maxwell: Oil to $300 by 2020
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| Thoughtful comments on oil from veteran oil analyst Charlie Maxwell in weekend Barron's: |
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Money Speaks - Bankers Jargon! Doesn't anyone speak English?
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| In simple terms, debt to equity explains the financial health of the company. For example; suppose your company has a debt to equity ratio of 4 to 1. To a banker, that means there is $4.00 in debt compared to $1.00 invested in the company. In other words, your lenders own more of your company than you do. So, if you were asked to lend money to your company at this type of ratio, would you? |
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