Sources of Capital
Include firms in their development, startup or survival life cycle states.
Early Stage Ventures
An analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to determine business viability.
SWOT Analysis
Basic legal declarations contained in a corporate charter.
Articles of Incorporation
The practice of recording economic activity when recognized rather than realized.
Accrual Accounting
Shows the relationship between two or more financial variables
Financial Ratios
Wealthy individuals acting as informal or private investors who provide venture financing for small businesses
Business Angels
Assessment of an idea's commercial potential to produce revenue growth, financial performance and value.
Venture Opportunity Screening
LLC
The speed at which an asset can be converted to cash.
Liquidity
Important users of financial ratios and measures in order to make lending decisions.
Commercial Banks
Risk and expected reward go "hand-in-hand"
A principle of entrepreneurial finance
The process of minimizing resources such as the need for financial capital and finding unique sources for financing a new venture.
Bootstrapping
An agreement between an employer and employee about the terms and conditions of employment including the employees agreement to keep confidential information secret and to assign ideas and inventions to the employer.
The amount of revenues just offsetting variable and cash fixed costs.
Survival Revenues
Used to examine a venture's performance over time.
Trend analysis
The last stage in a successful venture's life cycle.
Early-maturity stage
The first component of a sound business model.
Types of intellectual property
Patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights
The portion of a sale of a product that contributes to covering cash fixed costs.
Contribution Margin
Advise and assist ventures on the type, timing, costs of issuing new debt and equity securities and facilitate the sale of firms.
Investment Banking firms
Business organization characterized by having the shortest start-up time and lowest legal cost.
Sole proprietorship
Cost of production schedule, COGS schedule, Inventories Schedule
Internal Operating Schedules