Archive for August, 2005
Carnival of Capitalist is up at Weekend Pundit - 15-Aug-2005
By Harish Keshwani at 14 August, 2005, 5:04 pm
Another excellent edition of Carnival of Capitalists is up a day early at Weekend Pundit. As usual we have excellent business posts from stalwarts like Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends, Wayne Hulbert of Blog Business World, Yvonne DiVita of Lipsticking and many others including yours truly with his post about Business FAQ blog at [...]
Transition from Blogger to WordPress
By Harish Keshwani at 14 August, 2005, 12:11 pm
BusinessWorks Blog will be celebrating it’s First Birthday on September 24th, 2005. It is already experiencing growing pains. Google’s Blogger is my current Blogging Engine and it has served me well, but it lacks a few critical features like Categories, Search facility, trackbacks that a Blog like mine needs. I am planning to move the [...]
Investment Analysis Methodologies - Discounted Cash Flow
By Harish Keshwani at 11 August, 2005, 11:47 pm
Venture Capitalists, in absence of a solid predictable path, rely on these popular methodologies to arrive at crucial decisions about investments. Discounted cash flow and compound interest are two sides of a coin.
As we know, a dollar you have today is worth more than a dollar you’ll have at some point in future, because you [...]
Investment Analysis Methodologies - Internal Rate of Return
By Harish Keshwani at 9 August, 2005, 10:13 pm
Time value of money is one of the most important yardstick used by Venture Capitalists before investing. The internal rate of return (IRR) method of analyzing an investment utilizes the time value of money. This parameter provides you an option of calculating interest rate that is equivalent to the dollar returns that you expect from [...]
Investment Analysis Methodologies - Payback Period
By Harish Keshwani at 8 August, 2005, 9:56 pm
If you enter the mind of a Venture Capitalist, you may find amongst other things, a formula that gives him an estimate about when he can realize some profits from a startup. It is called Payback Period. It tells you, how long will it take to recover your investments and be profitable. The formula to [...]
