Finance for non-financial managers - succeed with just four numbers.Finance doesn't have to be complicated. This book shows you how to make better, faster, financially sound business decisions using just four numbers.Effective financial management is at the heart of every successful business but it can seem impenetrable to the non-financial manager; littered with spreadsheets, inexplicable charts and intricate formulae, all washed down with swathes of unintelligible jargon. In reality, successfu...
Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship
by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon
Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship explores the exciting world of active investing and lays out in a clear and readily accessible way their key features, ways of doing business and likely evolution. The book follows the cycle of active investing. Raising funds, considering transactions, structuring and overseeing transactions, and exiting investments are considered in turn. The focus is not just on the U.S. market, but on the increasingly global nature of thes...
Dieses Buch vermittelt einen UEberblick uber den Prozess der Patenterteilung und zeigt auf, dass Patente auf Erfindungen auch im Interesse der Wissenschaftler sind und dass ihnen eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle in der Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Arbeit zukommt. Es wendet sich an alle, die auf dem Gebiet der Patente noch Wissenslucken haben und legt auf verstandliche Weise dar, dass sich Patente und wissenschaftliche Publikationen nicht ausschliessen mussen. Patente bieten die Chance auf eine we...
Digital Innovations, Business and Society in Africa (Advances in Theory and Practice of Emerging Markets)
For African enterprises, entrepreneurs and governments to take full advantage of new digital opportunities, they need a shared strategic understanding of where they are, what they have, and what they may need to have for the future. This book presents this shared strategic vision to guide future coordinated actions of African enterprises, entrepreneurs, consumers/citizens and governments in using new and emerging digital technologies. It showcases how consumers/citizens, entrepreneurs, organisat...
Have you ever wished you had a wise old mentor who could tell you where to go next in your career or your life? An “Obi-Wan Kenobi”-type figure who could not only offer specific advice on handling day-to-day decisions, but could guide you to the people and places that would make a difference in your life and career? Let Rizwan Virk, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, show you how to learn to tune into messages that are coming to us all the time from the hidden worlds. These...
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Deutschland als führende Industrienation auch in der Digitalen Wirtschaft ein starker Player werden kann. Deutschland verfügt über unzählige Weltmarktführer in den klassischen Wirtschaftsbranchen, bisher aber über keinen digitalen Champion. Die großen Player aus dem Internet wie Google, Facebook & Co. dringen zunehmend auch in die realen Wirtschaftsbranchen ein und wollen hier die Spielregeln verändern. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysieren Tobias Kollmann und Holger Schmidt...
YOUR GUIDE TO A FULFILLING BUSINESS AND PERSONAL FUTURE Based on research by one of the world's largest growth-consulting companies, New Mega Trends identifies the ten most important global trends that will define our future, including business models, smart technology, connectivity and convergence and radical social trends. New Mega Trends will give you the tools to not only identify and evaluate these game-changing trends, but also help you to translate them into market opportunities for your...