How should the Zoona venture model its cash requirements and sources of finance? What will be the key competitive advantages of the Zoona venture? Customer: Zoona Mobile must focus on a wide range of customers including those that are unbanked and banked. It would mainly be focusing on the vast population that was unbanked as …
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I believe that social entrepreneurship can have a great impact on solving contemporary problems from climate change to helping raise the human capital of nations. I believe the role of governments should be to support such initiatives with tax incentives, grants and subsidies but they must make sure to ensure a level playing field for …
Social investment – expect social (improve socio-economic and environmental conditions) and financial return. Private investment for public benefit. Impact-first (optimise impact) and financial-first investors (optimise returns with secondary goal of social impact) Social impact bonds (SIBs) issued in the UK (public sector increases funding for services that improve social outcomes). Development Impact Bonds (DIBs) launched …
Maker movement – shared access to tools and digital fabrication technologies – makers can act as producers in the sharing economy and increase entrepreneurship – democratize invention beyond corporations. High level of social exchange and collaboration across diverse actorsEnhanced knowledge creation and sharingProduction of artefacts using technological resources previously only in R&D facilities An initial …
Geographically localised financing of early-stage creative projects – built on personal relationships and face to face due diligence interactions. Crowdfunding could increase total capital allocated to innovation – generate jobs. Obama – JOBS act – legalize crowdfunding for equity which may expose investors to fraud or incompetence. Indirect network effects of crowdfunding platforms – value …
By Gerald F. Davis Corporations are declining as transaction costs of organisations disfavours traditional corporations. Corporations that remain engage in continuous restructuring. Emergence of low-cost, small-scale, production technologies creating producer and consumer cooperatives and platforms. Economies of scale is flipping to diseconomies of scale. Pathologies of shareholder capitalism have undermined some of the benefits of …
Business requires hard work, great ideas, dedicated and talented employees but also money to survive. Source of capital – founders personal investment, internally generated cash, trade credit, customer advances, cash borrowed from lenders, cash from sale of ownership Successful businesses must anticipate future cash needs, make plans and execute capital acquisition strategies. Firms require different …
Chapter : The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as Strategist CFOs translate strategy of the company into its financial implications. For an early-stage company, CFO plays a different role, as the strategy is dependent on the availability of finances. The best stepping-stone for an early-stage company the one that allows it to capture the necessary funding …
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Financial plan allows the evaluation of how much financing is needed and when. It also allows an assessment of assumptions made in the business model and areas of high risk. Financial plans are particularly important for growing companies as even if profits are generated they are usually insufficient to finance the investments needed for growth. …
Why? Financial plan allows the evaluation of how much, if any, financing is needed and when as well as assess the optimise the business model (examine which conditions are profitable). It can also be a good marketing tool to investors. Gousto in the food delivery market was sacrificing profitability in order to grow — however, customers wooed …
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