Introduction JavaNet is, currently, a privately held Oregon Limited Liability Corporation, with a founder and majority owner, Cale Bruckner, and 3 private investors including Luke Walsh, Dough Wilson, and John Underwood. Private investors, are considered to have a minority stock position, and are shielded from double taxation. JavaNet is an internet café that is looking for an additional private investor to fund the beginning work on site preparations and modifications, equipment purchases, and additional capital to cover the first years operating expenses. This investment would require a total investment of $24,000, to be added to the additional funding secured from the Oregon Economic Development Fund, the owner, Cale Bruckner’s, initial investment, from the investment of the 3 other private investors, and from the short term loans; totaling $112, 290 for start-up costs, (Business Plan Pro, 2009). Feasibility Analysis JavaNet is the creation of an environment that will be positioned as an educational resource for individuals wishing to learn about the benefits the Internet has to offer, (Business Plan Pro, 2009). JavaNet will be giving its customers access to the latest in computing technology, external POP3 and JavaNet email accounts, laser and color printer and scanning services, as well as access to the most popular and most updated software, (Business Plan Pro, 2009). Is there demand? JavaNet will provide the community, which does not have other
The owner’s initial investment consists of $38,000 cash and $46,000 in land in exchange for its common stock.
(TCO 4) Sally Toone wants to start a new business, and hopes to attract several hundred investors to help finance its growth. She considered forming a C corporation, but wants to have more flexibility about how the new business will be taxed. She also wants to offer investors limited liability. Sally can satisfy her objectives by setting up a(n)
Paula Green, a U.S citizen and our client, is preparing to expand her business into landscaping field. Before the expansion, Paula already has already been operating the Green Thumb Nursery whose total assets with a $260,000 adjusted basis and a $500,000 FMV. To avoid the risk of paying unlimited debt, Paula plans to change business form from sole proprietorship into corporation. And Mary Brown, a U.S citizen and the other client, would like to invest $250,000 into this corporation.
The Ace Courts will be a limited partnership corporation that will be privately owned. Myself, Desara Korreshi will own 50% of the company, while my two teammates will each own 25% of the company. Our start-up requirements come to $1,700,000. Included in these costs is the
Apex Investment Partners was founded in 1987 by James A. Johnson and the First Analysis Corporation. In its eight-year life, the VC had raised three funds. The two first which are already closed had, together, a committed capital of around $70M. There were mainly concentrated in four areas: • • • • Telecommunication, information technology and software. Environmental and industrial productivity-related technologies. Consumer products and specialty retail. Health-care and related technologies.
2. Funding: Apex Investment Fund II’s partnership agreement prohibited the venture capitalists from investing more than a few million dollars in any one deal but as a lead investor, Apex need to put $2 million of its own capital. Or need to bargain on the price for attracting others.
When contemplating expansion and growth, it is imperative to understand the advantages and disadvantages as they relate to funding. Internal financing, or using profits for new investments, is advantageous as it is available immediately, there is no associated interest, there aren’t any restrictions imposed by outside parties, and overall, grants flexibility. However, it can be disadvantageous, as it is not tax-deductible, capital is not increased, and there is more available capital available on the outside market.
JavaNet Internet Café is the first of its kind located in Eugene, Oregon. The goal of the company is to broaden the community’s accessibility to affordable Internet through social interaction and entertainment. JavaNet is the creation of University of Oregon graduate Cale Bruckner. Cale has business degrees in both Marketing and Management. His level of expertise also includes product development, product marketing, team management, resource allocation, human resources management, and business content development. Cale wrote the business plan for JavaNet Internet Café in 1995 and is currently the vice president of Product Development for Palo Alto Software Incorporated.
Hart Venture Capital (HVC) specializes in providing venture capital for software development and Internet applications. Currently HVC has two investment opportunities: (1) Security Systems, a firm that needs additional capital to develop an Internet security software package, and (2) Market Analysis, a market research company that needs additional capital to develop a software package for conducting customer satisfaction surveys. In exchange for the Security Systems stock, the firm has asked HVC to provide $600,000 in year 1, $600,000 in year 2, and $350,000 in year 3. In exchange of their stock, Market Analysis has asked HVC to provide $500,000 in year 1, $350,000 in year 2,
Betty Wilson’s venture of opening a Christian Coffee House in Belmont, NC, presents her with abundant opportunities in selecting a business form. She is considering the following types of entities: 1) franchise, 2) sole proprietorship, 3) partnership of some sort, 4) corporation of some sort, 5) LLC, or 6) even as a joint venture. We will briefly explore each business option and give Betty concise recommendations as to what business form to pursue as well as what business partners to engage.
In the long distant future, in the year 2016, the cable news empire has fallen, and former talking heads have stooped to running for political office. In fact, five former talk show stars are running for President of the United States, and locked in a close race.
to This browser would threaten to remove the application barrier which enabled Microsoft’s monopoly position on operating systems for many years. The software application - internet browser allows users to retrieve, present, and pass over information resources on the World Wide Web and contains Applications Programming Interface (API) which allows programmer to write other application programs. on it. In addition, the development of new programming language “Java” by Sun Microsystems allows programmer to write applications in it which can be run on various operating systems. Both the twoJave a Netscape Navigator innovations corporate use each other; because Java applications are especially written for the internet and the Netscape browser was a primary distribution channel for java applications. Therefore, the developments of the Netscape browsers along with the java programming language enables software applications to run across operating systems reducereducing Microsoft’s competitive strategy and threaten its monopolisticy position.
In this report, we analysed and evaluate the project management of the case: The case, The PCNet Project (A): Project Risk Management in an IT integration Project. We had look into the project definition phase of the PCNet project and discuss some of the problems that emerged during the project in relation to project definition phase. We also evaluated the role of the PCNet project manager and discussed some of the core skillsets demanded by the job role. The risk management aspect of the PCNet project was also studied in our report. Lastly we made recommendations to address the dilemma faced by Jack Muller, the project manager for the PCNet project.
In today’s world 3 billion humans are on the internet but there are also 4 billion people that are not. In the beginning of my study on the future of the internet, I asked myself this question: is it possible that everyone could be online and globally connected? Then I asked myself how, if everyone is online, the future of the internet change the experience of everyday life? Looking back, the internet is still a relatively new phenomenon as it was first created back in the 1960’s by a computer scientist named J.C.R Licklider. He envisioned a network of computers, called the galactic network, which would allow humans to be able to share information instantly. Overtime this is how the internet developed, as many of these networks that shared