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addresses resources to be used and how each will be utilized.
primarily focus on: the efficiency of the company's spending on technology; how people, for example the organization's customers and employees, exploit technologies in ways that create value for the organization |
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| a factor giving an advantage to a nation, company, group, or individual in competitive terms; means by which a firm manages to keep making money and sustain its position against its competitors |
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| a securities offering whereby one or more parties that have some connection to a new enterprise invest the funds necessary to start the business so that it has enough funds to sustain itself for a period of development until it reaches either a state where it is able to continue funding itself, or has created something in value so that it is worthy of future rounds of funding. Seed money refers to the money so invested. |
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type of private equity capital typically provided for early-stage, high-potential, growth companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or trade sale of the company. Venture capital investments are generally made as cash in exchange for shares in the invested company
Venture capital (VC) is funding invested, or available for investment, in an enterprise that offers the probability of profit along with the possibility of loss. Indeed, venture capital was once known also as risk capital, but that term has fallen out of usage, probably because investors don't like to see the words "risk" and "capital" in close conjunction |
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| term referring to a number of distinct types of legal monopolies over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law, ex: copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets in some jurisdictions; an intangible asset, such as a copyright or patent |
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| a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome |
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| the ratio of money gained or lost (whether realized or unrealized) on an investment relative to the amount of money invested, also called: rate of return (ROR), rate of profit, or just return |
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Technology: A term used to described a set of functionally related technology projects and or products managed and controlled (fiscally) by one organizational unit or entity.
Finance: appropriate mix or collection of investments held by institutions or a private individual |
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| publicly traded company is a company that has permission to offer its registered securities (stock, bonds, etc.) for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, or occasionally a company whose stock is traded over the counter (OTC) via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services. |
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| close corporation, refers to the ownership of a business company in two different ways: first, referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations; and second, referring to ownership of the company's stock by a relatively small number of holders who do not trade the stock publicly on the stock market |
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| National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, an American stock exchange, the largest electronic screen-based equity securities trading market in the United States |
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