Entrepreneurial Finance: Venture Capital, Deal Structure & Valuation, Second Edition illustrates how the theory and methods of finance and economics can be used to guide strategic decision-making. This text prepares readers for a variety of situations that confront stakeholders in the rapidly evolving fields of entrepreneurial finance and venture capital, outlining ways to think from the investor's and entrepreneur's perspectives. Readers will find a unique and direct focus on value creation as the objective of each strategic and financial choice. The authors specifically address the influences of risk and uncertainty on new venture success and investment performance, devoting substantial attention to methods of financial modeling and contract design. Finally, they provide a comprehensive survey of approaches to new venture valuation, with an emphasis on applications. The second edition is thoroughly revised to reflect new data, research, and changes in practice in this fast-moving field. It has an increased focus on venture capital, while maintaining its hallmark coverage of the financial aspects of entrepreneurship. Updates throughout address technological changes that have the potential to dramatically change the landscape for finance, such as recent innovations in contracting for early-stage ventures, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and Internet connectivity. Lastly, the book offers a companion website with a useful suite of resources for students and instructors alike, including spreadsheets, templates, simulation applications, and interactive cases and tutorials.
A TRUE STORY OF FAITH, LOVE, AND FORGIVENESSJANET BECOMES DISILLUSIONED WITH MARRIAGE while living on Mark, her husband's, family farm in rural Georgia with their three children. Trapped in a dying marriage and desperate to save her family from divorce, Janet prays that God will save her marriage. An unexpected encounter with a Department of Defense school recruiter and two job offers to teach children on a navy base result in Janet and her family's move to Japan. There she faces new challenges-a son deployed to Iraq, a rebellious teenager who hangs out in Tokyo, a five-year-old who doesn't understand why they left their home, and a homesick husband.Come with Janet on her journey, spanning a war zone and two continents, as she learns to trust God with her marriage.
A woman who may be abducted and a man who's definitelydead are just the beginning for Seattle attorney AnnieMacPherson, whose search for answers leads her to a pastfaded but not forgotten. A trip to the elegant Windsor Resort onOrcas Island seems like a vacation, but Annie holds the power ofattorney for the owner and is there to negotiate a real estate deal.Feeling pressured by the hotel's manager and the prospectivebuyer, Annie's uneasiness is soon justified when the buyer's beautifulcompanion suddenly disappears and a murder rocks the resort'speaceful beauty. Her working vacation-and budding romancewith the resort's charming kayak instructor-in turmoil, Anniedigs deeper, uncovering enough clues to learn the hotel's guest listis a complicated nest of greed, deceit, and revenge... and maybeuncovering enough to make her a target.
Much to her surprise and relief, smart lawyer-sleuth Annie MacPherson is being wooed by Seattle's most eminent law firm and its most renown partner. But when she enters the rich and hushed halls of Kemble, Laughton, Mercer, and Duff, she discovers office politics isn't a game, it's a deadly obsession. And everyone is a player. Annie hasn't even cut through the paperwork when top partner Gordon Barclay's secretary and not-so-secret lover kills herself. The dead woman's sister refuses to believe appearances, and wants Annie, so far unseduced by Barclay's legendary charms, to investigate the high and mighty machinations of Seattle's most feared litigator. Things heat up when a sniper targets Annie--just as a shocking glimpse into her family's past blows her life wide open. Soon Annie finds herself caught in a destructive web of love, lies, and murder that only her sharp insight and fierce intelligence can unravel. The second in the Annie MacPherson mystery series, which began with Sea of Troubles.
Seattle attorney Annie Macpherson is stunned to receive a desperate phone message from her old high school friend, Taylor North. They haven't spoken in seventeen years, ever since the bitter fight involving Taylor's violent boyfriend--and eventual husband--Steven Vick. So, with trepidation and a touch of dread, Annie rushes to Yakima Valley, where Taylor owns a winery, and discovers a curious truth. In the last six months--after Taylor threw Steven off the land and out of her life--threatening events have begun to plague the North Faire Winery. Bottles and corks vanish, spray paint spoils the ripe grapes, salt is sifted into the wine. But the worst is yet to come when a bludgeoned body is found--and Taylor is the prime suspect. The last of the Annie MacPherson Mystery Series, which began with Sea of Troubles.
Why Choices?●You've exhausted all that western medicine has to offer●You're done with the side effects of medication●You're tired of the medical 'band-aids'●You've been stuck long enough●You question why you lack energy and can't focus●Your anxiety and depression are getting worse●You've been told you only have one or two options●You're curious about what else is out thereOr maybe, you are just ready to make the CHOICE to get your Life Back In Alternative and Holistic Health Care, we have many Choices that most people are not aware of. Make yourself a priority and explore ALL your CHOICES before making life changing decisions.In this book you will read short, but powerful, examples of just a few modalities that are available to help you on your journey to get your life back. Grab the keys, take responsibility, and make your CHOICE for your own life.Cherri Gregori-Pedrioli is the founder and CEO of Holistic Choices Inc and Choices the Book Series and Co-Founder of the Sonoma Strong Healing Fair. She is also a Foundational Practitioner of Reconnective Healing. Cherri's passion and mission is to support and educate the community around Alternative and Holistic Health Care and to stress the importance that they have Choices that should be explored before making life changing decisions.
Next Level Results for Your QMS You don't just want a compliant quality management system, you want a robust one a QMS that's easy to implement and maintain. Beyond Compliance Design merges two sets of experiencess that of a quality system designer/auditee and that of an external auditor to help you make that possible. Move beyond a focus on checking all the right boxes to the opportunities for continuous improvement, waste reduction, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction and delight. Author Janet Bautista Smith, with the contributions of external auditor, Robert Alvarez, guides you in this process with her models, case studies, lessons learned, and an array of simple tools and templates you can customize for your organization and begin using immediately, including: Implementing layered metrics to align with the auditor's perspective Employing DMAIC analysis to process customer complaints Discovering hidden factories through a Process Grid Walk Addressing common pitfalls of documentation systems with lean solutions Achieving operational compliance and excellence within processes Determining QMS, customer, and auditor satisfaction Fostering synergy among the QMS, customer, and auditor perspectives Engaging management review for critical support
Ana, Becky, and Michelle have been friends since fifth grade. They each realized that they were attracted to women when they were in high school, and while they've all had short term relationships since that time, none of those relationships turned out to be serious. The ladies all went to college together and graduated five years ago and now that they're in their late twenties and settled in their careers, they've decided they want something more. They all want to find their Ms. Right. Will they each find their Ms. Right, or just find Ms. Right Now?
No one should be afraid of the dark or afraid to go to the bathroom late at night. Then the doctor said, "Pregnant," and the stars completely disappeared from the sky, and there was nothing but darkness all around me. I was fifteen, a child with a child. And So, My Son... tells the story of how it happened and why.
Between September and November 2022, Church Life Journal published a series of articles on liturgical reform, coauthored by Drs. John Cavadini, Mary Healy, and Thomas Weinandy. With its rosy view of the Liturgical Movement, its caricature of the Catholic faithful prior to Vatican II, its forensically questionable affirmation of Sacrosanctum Concilium's paternity of the Novus Ordo (not to mention its solemn chrismation of both by the Holy Spirit), and its severe rejection of the "Tridentine movement," the series sparked ample criticism of the authors' perplexingly inadequate scholarship, grandiose generalizations, and pastoral callousness.Because the innovationist and anti-traditionalist arguments of Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy are perpetually recycled in seminaries and degree programs around the world-the "commonplaces" of countless bulletins, homilies, blogs, and workshops-the appearance of the series offers a providential opportunity to present Catholic counterarguments. This handy book makes a persuasive case in favor of immemorial tradition against yesterday's novelties at a time when a growing number of priests and faithful are longing for the sacred and the authentic.After an initial careful summary of the Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy series, Illusions of Reform gathers the critiques of nine authors: in Part 1, Dr. Janet Smith's own five-part series; in Part 2, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski's rejoinders on several major issues; in Part 3, further responses by Alexander Battista, representing the point of view of Eastern Catholics; Fr. Samuel Keyes, a priest of the Anglican Ordinariate; Roland Millare, an expert on Joseph Ratzinger; Fr. Peter Miller and Dom Alcuin Reid, liturgically knowledgeable Benedictine monks; and Dr. Joseph Shaw, president of the International Una Voce Foundation. An epilogue by Gregory DiPippo and a select bibliography round out the volume.
