Download or read book Factors Influencing the Number of Current Investees for Selected Venture Capital Firms in Africa written by Jonathan Adongo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report represents one of the first attempts to econometrically identify the factors influencing the number of current investees in venture capital firms' portfolios across Africa. It applied Ordinary Least Squares to an Analysis of Covariance model to achieve this objective using two paradigms, i.e. the 'country of management' criterion, which capters the characteristics of where the venture capital firm is based and the 'country of destination' criterion, which captures the characteristics of where they invest"--P. iv.

Download or read book The Venture Capital Gap written by Jonathan Adongo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Search for Returns in Africa written by Martin Mailänder and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following paper looks at the question of what factors do significantly influence the amount of venture capital investment in Nigeria. It could be observed that the country's historical, political and economic environment play an important role in this regard, especially the century-old tension among ethnical groups as well as the latest presidential change with yet an uncertain impact on Nigeria's future development. Besides these high-level factors, more specific determinants at a lower level have been examined through a regression analysis for the period 1988 up to 2014. Thereby, the factors "GDP growth" and "stock market opportunities" as measured by market capitalization of listed companies (% GDP) have a significant and positive influence on the supply of venture capital, while the variable "real interest rate" exhibits a significant and negative influence on the dependent variable. Looking at the demand for venture capital investments, the variables "GDP growth" and "real interest rate" both show a significant and positive effect. Overall, GDP growth and the real interest rate provide not only significant results but also high explanatory power in the regression model. These factors were largely in line with the answers from the interviews conducted. Additionally, the variables "awareness about venture capital" and "infrastructure" which were not included in the model due to difficulty of measurement, were identified in the interviews as influencing factors for venture capital investments in Nigeria.

Download or read book Factors Influencing Venture Capitalists Project Financing Decisions in South Africa written by Albertus Gert Van Deventer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Determinants of Venture Capital in Africa written by Jonathan Adongo and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Venture Capital written by Silvia B. Sagari and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the potential role of venture capital firms in the developing countries.

Download or read book How Venture Capital Works written by Phillip Ryan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explanations to the inner workings of one of the least understood, but arguably most important, areas of business finance is offered to readers in this engaging volume: venture capital. Venture capitalists provide necessary investment to seed (or startup) companies, but the startup is only the beginning, there is much more to be explored. These savvy investors help guide young entrepreneurs, who likely have little experience, to turn their businesses into the Googles, Facebooks, and Groupons of the world. This book explains the often-complex methods venture capitalists use to value companies and to get the most return on their investments, or ROI. This book is a must-have for any reader interested in the business world.

Download or read book Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation written by Andrew Metrick and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This useful guide walks venture capitalists through the principles of finance and the financial models that underlie venture capital decisions. It presents a new unified treatment of investment decision making and mark-to-market valuation. The discussions of risk-return and cost-of-capital calculations have been updated with the latest information. The most current industry data is included to demonstrate large changes in venture capital investments since 1999. The coverage of the real-options methodology has also been streamlined and includes new connections to venture capital valuation. In addition, venture capitalists will find revised information on the reality-check valuation model to allow for greater flexibility in growth assumptions.

Download or read book The Venture Capital Industry in South Africa and the Potential for Participation by Black Entrepreneurs written by F. H. Ferreira and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Private Finance for Development written by Hilary Devine and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the tension between large development needs in infrastructure and scarce public resources. To alleviate this tension and promote a strong and job-rich recovery from the crisis, Africa needs to mobilize more financing from and to the private sector.

Download or read book Sub Saharan Africa Factors Affecting Trade Patterns of Selected Industries First Annual Report Inv 332 477 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Facilitating High Growth Enterprises Through Seed Stage Investing in South Africa written by Mmathebe Zvobwo and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits Business School), course: Master of Management in Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation, language: English, abstract: This research finds its theoretical roots in the theory of the firm growth and is focused on high growth entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial Orientation and Venture Capital funding also become central to the research particularly with regards to the identification of High Growth Enterprises and understanding their employment creation in the South African context. The motivation of the research was sparked by emerging research in High Growth Enterprises specifically with regards to how they are able to provide a solution to unemployment. The research aims to understand High Growth Enterprises in terms of identification and employment growth and to determine if bridging the Seed Stage gap in South Africa will facilitate the growth of High Growth Enterprises. The research employed a quantitative cross-sectional design with the founders of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises as the unit of analysis. The main findings of the research are that High Growth Enterprises (HGEs) in South Africa create a significant amount of jobs than those that are not (non-HGEs). Entrepreneurial Orientation significantly determines whether enterprises will become HGEs or not and significantly drives the employment growth of HGEs. Most HGEs in South Africa have funded themselves and use equity instruments at Seed Stage showing that there is a need to bridge the equity Seed Capital gap in South Africa. Venture Capitalists through their Selection Criteria are able to add more credibility to HGEs resulting in increased access to resources and employment creation. The Selection Criteria of Venture Capitalists alone cannot predict which enterprises will be HGEs Value-adding Activities of Venture Capital firms have not be

Download or read book Entrepreneurial Teams written by Daniela Bolzani and published by Now Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly research investigating the venturing processes by entrepreneurial teams (ETs) is relatively recent and characterized by specific and limited areas of attention. Although the authors build on earlier contributions, Entrepreneurial Teams: An Input-Process-Outcome Framework takes a nuanced view of the phenomenon. First it offers a comprehensive understanding of the construct 'entrepreneurial team' by focusing on its definition and characteristics. Second, it depicts team evolution phases, from inception to maturity, linking these to firm performance by using a process approach (i.e., Input-Process-Outcome). Entrepreneurial Teams: An Input-Process-Outcome Framework is structured as follows. First, it outlines the methodology used to search the relevant literature on the topic and to create meaningful thematic clusters. Second, it presents the previous reviews on ETs and illustrate how this monograph can be differentiated from these. Third, it focuses on the ambiguity of the definition of ETs in previous research, providing its own definition of ETs and identifying areas for future development. Fourth, it presents an in-depth analysis of the 14 thematic clusters identified according to the Input-Process-Outcome framework. In each cluster, the authors review the state of the art on the topic, highlighting limitations and shortcomings. For 'inputs, ' they review papers dealing with individual/team characteristics and ET formation. For 'processes, ' they review papers dealing with development and turnover in ETs, ETs and cognition, interactions in ETs, ETs and networks, and, finally, ETs and governance/organization, strategies, and opportunity identification. For 'outcomes, ' they review papers dealing with ETs and new firm creation, legitimacy, fundraising, public support, internationalization, and performance. It concludes by identifying opportunities for further research and offers some suggestions on how to contribute to the state of the art of literature.

Download or read book Why Startups Fail written by Tom Eisenmann and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Download or read book Survey of Current Business written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Founder s Dilemmas written by Noam Wasserman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.

Download or read book Independent Power Projects in Sub Saharan Africa written by Anton Eberhard and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inadequate electricity services pose a major impediment to reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Simply put, Africa does not have enough power. Despite the abundant low-carbon and low-cost energy resources available to Sub-Saharan Africa, the region s entire installed electricity capacity, at a little over 80 GW, is equivalent to that of the Republic of Korea. Looking ahead, Sub-Saharan Africa will need to ramp-up its power generation capacity substantially. The investment needed to meet this goal largely exceeds African countries already stretched public finances. Increasing private investment is critical to help expand and improve electricity supply. Historically, most private sector finance has been channeled through privately financed independent power projects (IPP), supported by nonrecourse or limited recourse loans, with long-term power purchase agreements with the state utility or another off-taker. Between 1990 and 2014, IPPs have spread across Sub-Saharan Africa and are now present in 17 countries. Currently, there are 125 IPPs, with an overall installed capacity of 10.7 GW and investments of $24.6 billion. However, private investment could be much greater and less concentrated. South Africa alone accounts for 67 IPPs, 4.3 GW of capacity and $14.4 billion of investments; the remaining projects are concentrated in a handful of countries. The objective of this study is to evaluate the experience of IPPs and identify lessons that can help African countries attract more and better private investment. At the core of this analysis is a reflection on whether IPPs have in fact benefited Sub-Saharan Africa, and how they might be improved. The analysis is based primarily on in depth case studies, carried out in five countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, which not only have the most numerous but also among the most extensive experience with IPPs.