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What is Venture Capital?

Great White Financial is a Chicago company that pursues Venture Capital deals. Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity financing provided to early-stage, high-potential, and often high-risk startup companies. It is a form of investment that involves institutional investors or high-net-worth individuals, providing capital to startups in exchange for equity ownership in the…
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IMPROVING Staff for Your Company and Your Country!

Losing a key employee can cost a company as much as twice that person’s salary in lost profits! Turnover seems to vary by wage and role of employee. For example, a CAP study found average costs to replace an employee are: 16 percent of annual salary for high-turnover, low-paying jobs (earning under $30,000 a year). For example,…
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Work is Life. Life is Work. Every Firm Should Support Optimal Health.

by BILLY LEE It is SAD to see so many firms overlook the mental and physical health of their employees. Many firms are sold on an ideology that inhibits sound thinking…(See my Introduction to Non-Typical Thinking). It is only a change in thinking that will bring about a positive change in higher level human behavior.…
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About Markets and Choice in a Free Society

Freeing the Sports World of Steroids, Silencing Donald Sterling, Stopping Global Warming and more… BILLY LEE FIRST PUBLISHED IN MIXEDMARKETARTIST.COM BY BILLY LEE When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a very small part of a man’s wants which the produce of his own labour can supply. He supplies…
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5 Things Every Startup Should Know

Source: Entrepreneur At the tender age of 19, Rob Rohn and Dan Mermelstein started selling aftermarket auto accessories from their college dorm room. Ten years, four locations and 23 employees later, Gilbert, Ariz.-based Vivid Racing is a $10 million business. We asked Rohn and Mermelstein, both 29, to share a few of the business insights…
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Futures Explained: What Futures Provide the Financial System and Society

The role of futures in the financial markets and society is widely misunderstood. Futures do not inherently destabilize the financial system, and they are not devices made purely for speculation. Futures, especially exchange-traded futures, have massively contributed to the creation of the modern financial system. This system allows for capital to be put to use…
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