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Molycorp Concepts Convertibles bond/stock + option to convert into common stock option works with conversion ratio Signaling to market Pecking order Internal funds Debt Equity Working capital calculation +A/R +Inventory -A/P -Accrued Expen…
Mariott Concepts How to make fast growth companies possible consistency between financial policy and product market strategy Excess debt capacity Financial policies about debt Short or long-term debt? Secured or unsecured debt? Fixed or va…
Gilbert Concepts Cash Flow Management Proforma analysis Source and Use Key findings Operation/Product strategy and Financial strategy should be consistent Minimize Days A/R, Maximize Days A/P Diagnose firm health with operation ratios and …
Sustainable Growth Rate Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR): Formula and Calculation This ratio is checking how fast can you grow assets without increasing the leverage ratio and without issuing new equity. Increasing the leverage ratio would ha…
Possible agenda for pitch Normally, pitch can be 5-7 mins, but you may need to deliver a shorter presentation like elevator pitch. Then, you need to focus on couple of topics as follows. Tell a story - make a connection Be very specific an…
This course is a panel talk between students and remarkable leaders in various industries. Faculty is Robert C. Pozen. Robert C. Pozen | MIT Sloan The most important advice to Sloan Fellows "Find a great female 1 on 1 mentor if you are mal…
CAPM(Capital Asset Pricing Model) Assumptions Efficient portfolios are combinations of market portfolio and risk-free rates(Treasury bills) The expected return of an asset i must satisfy There is a linear tradeoff between risk and expected…
Question Answering Tasks in Machine Learning Question answering is one of the major problem sets in NLP, in a nut shell, this is simpler Reading Comprehension problem in GMAT or other types. There are multiple types of questions and texts,…
Principles for NPV calculation Project, project, project. Don't use company's CF, capital structure and cost of capital. Unlevered and Levered beta If you identified "pure boys", as I described in the following article, you need to be care…
7What are the components of MVBP? Value: end users can recognize the values of the product Pay: economic buyer can actually pay for the products Feedback: Through MVBP, you can collect feedback from users. MVBP of ATM ATM seems to be very …
What is overfitting? Overfitting occurs when the model has a high variance, i.e., the model performs well on the training data but does not perform accurately in the evaluation set. What is Overfitting in Deep Learning [+10 Ways to Avoid I…
Three things to consider When the company proceed M&A, what we should consider initially? Strategic benefits(Why?) Valuation(How much?) Execution(How?) Strategic benefits Why should we sell or buy a company? This is the most important ques…
Diversification Asset returns are quite unpredictable and some assets are correlated each other. Investors look for portfolios that maximize their returns with the least amount of risk. The main factors you need to consider when you build …
Torkenization What is Tokenization | Methods to Perform Tokenization Tokenization is essentially splitting a phrase, sentence, paragraph, or an entire text document into smaller units, such as individual words or terms. Each of these small…
Customer success matters because of sales growth Most of your revenue comes after the initial sale. Initial sale only generates 5-30 % of revenue and the rest, 70-95% comes from renewals and upsells. Create happy customers Leads from happy…
Three components of investment Strategy Valuation Execution The most common three methods used in valuation Calculate NPV by DCF method Earning multiple using P/E,EBIT and EBITDA Asset multiples using Book Value Steps to value projects by …
Fundamentals of startup finance Venture capital provides funds to build companies from the earliest stages to freestanding, mature organizations. Limited partners(LPs): institutional net worth investors providing capital to VC funds. They …
Presentation is a skill of charisma? In a short answer, No. Sometimes, too strong individual talent would worsen the delivery of messages and just deliver a positive impression of speakers. Do You Need Charisma to Be a Great Public Speaker…
To understand companies' sales strategy and status, I will write down comprehensive lists of interview questions. Understand numbers Besides economics, we need to understand "where is a bottle neck" Potential lead Qualified lead to sales D…
Peloton Peloton made toning your glutes feel spiritual. But should Jesus be part of the class? - The Washington Post Peloton is the major exercising kit and we studied its marketing and business strategy in early period. Who is the custome…
The basic structure of communciation Five interactive variables Communicator Message Channel Audience Culture Communicatio style When you should use tell/sell style? You have sufficient information You do not need to hear others' opinions,…
1. Become one with the data The more time you spend looking at the data the better you'll do. Find corrupt data, duplicates Real example: lots of training examples that say "please enable javascript to view this page" If 1% of your trainin…
Modigliani and Miller Theories(M&M theory) What Is the Modigliani-Miller (M&M) Theorem, and How Is It Used? Merton Miller and Franco Modigliani conceptualized and developed this theorem, and published it in an article, "The Cost of Capital…
Clustering 101 Clustering is the most typical machine learning of unsupervised learning. It means we don't have training data or correct label, but machine learning automatically put labels, or grouping datasets. In today's article, I will…
Earning means what? Earning in accounting means nothing in finance. We need to dive into detail if we want to find out how to evaluate stock pricing and company's growth. Trade-off between growth and dividends There is a trade-off between …
Dragon's Den www.youtube.com Cheeky Chompers sell baby products and two ladies made presenation in front of investors. Their feedbacks were really terrible. However, after this program, their sales recorded over 1M GBP. What is your core W…
In this class, we have some role-playings in a startup negotiation situation Scenario 1: Emotional conflict - Understanding the connection between emotion and preparation in negotiation- Understanding how emotion makes it hard to hear what…
Fixed income markets: Issuers: entities that create fixed-income securities in order to raise funds (e.g.,governments, corporations, commercial banks, states, municipalities) Intermediaries: entities that assist issuers in creating and sel…
For what kind of products we should adopt Field Sales? Field sales is a DIRECT selling motion referring to the selling ofproducts or services by sales reps outside the office.Sales people literally go out into the “field” to meet with pros…
Market segments People tend to put more weights on demographic because it is identifiable. However, psychographic is more important actually. Demographics are just correlating with psycographic. The one of the most sophisticated organizati…