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Principles of Finance: Unit 1, Alex, That’s Finance Potpourri for $500
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Principles of Finance: Unit 1, Company Formation, Structure, Inception
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Principles of Finance: Unit 1, Intro: Company Formation, Structure, and Inception: Unit Intro 43 Views


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Company Formation, Structure, and Inception: Unit Intro. Sorry, Leo DiCaprio fans—we're not going to be breaking down the plot of Inception. We're talking about a different mind-boggling concept: the creation of a new company. We'll talk about investors, equity, lines of credit, IPOs, and so much more. So you can all put away your spinning tops.

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finance 101 a la shmoop. unit one company formation, structure and

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inception. unit intro. this finance course begins with a gossip rag. whether your [finance unit outlined]

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tastes skew more toward TMZ or Weekly World News, you know for a newly started

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company, you know with salacious gossip like who owns what? who did what to whom?

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what's the legal structure of ownership? well if we invest a hundred bucks and

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the company does well what does that money turn into in ten years? a butterfly?

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or hopefully a whole lot more than 100 bucks. but the most important element to

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take away from this juicy unit is that companies are people. not just the

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products they sell. okay so maybe companies don't slip and fall on icy

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sidewalks and maybe they aren't eligible to win the voice, so they're not exactly [company slips on sidewalk]

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like people. but the best companies serve products that are a direct reflection of

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the people who founded and run them. well in this unit we'll focus on a prime

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fictitious ish example the sauce company. as you'll discover the seemingly

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innocent and tiny decisions the founders make in the formation of the sauce

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company will have enormous wealth impact on them a few years later. you'll become

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aware of these nuances in unit one so you know not to lose money in your own

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financial future. we're talking about the methods in which companies get financed [wheel of fortune spins]

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and use their financing partners to play both offense and defense in the

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corporate games they play. private investors public investors equity debt

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lines of credit preferred stock IPOs secondary offerings yeah well these are

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all terms you'll digest and speak fluently soon, but for now well we'll

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stick with the wild gossip. what are we doing here company's free

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much like paintball and fleeting stuff oh yeah but that investment banker

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nowhere suit IPO what a fan is felons public finally Amazon every a mature [summary listed]

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companies not it's not you. ok by the end of this unit you should be

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able to: identify the options you have when you form a company identify a range

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of financing alternatives in building a company. understand what investment banks

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and bankers do all day for a living. understand the special process of

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fundraising called an IPO or initial public offering, and finally recognize

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the need for reward to investors when there's risk. [objectives listed]

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