Creating Modern Venture Capital: Institutional Design and Performance in the Early Years

This chapter focuses on addressing: the screening criteria used to evaluate potential new energy- related technology ventures in two international markets, namely the Philippines and Brazil; adopting a single case methodology to communicate the firm strategies used to attract investment and the behaviour adopted to try and effectively and efficiently enter the global market; and based on the descriptions and behaviours found, the case offers a holistic entry framework which will advance understanding of transcultural marketing and entry needs of the Philippines and Brazil regarding new energy-related innovations. This chapter uses qualitative case analysis of a single case technology commercialisation organisation and the experience of entering two new world markets: the Philippines and Brazil. These two markets have been selected as they are focused on energy securitisation, possess a distinct business culture related to early stage and Venture Capital (VC) investment and the behaviour of VCs, and are currently commercially attractive and interested in international investment and new technology market development (Broad & Cavanagh, 2011; Castells, 2011). This chapter reports on data focused on investment activity within the technology market in Brazil and the Philippines and cultural factors affecting investment and market entry specific to these markets. The chapter integrates the cultural issues of each destination with current literature and develops a checklist of actions related to each market destination. The chapter will assist with the success of attracting investment, sales growth, and performance in the new market and enhance profitability of the venture. The chapter will offer specific actions related to the entry and investment in each market and contribute to international marketing knowledge. This chapter offers a new transcultural marketing perspective on international venture capital exploring and learning from these two diverse emerging world markets. The lessons learnt from each market creates a shared and advanced outlook on seeking successful venture capital in newer global markets (Broad & Cavanagh, 2011).

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Halprin, Anna (Schuman) (1920--)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem722-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Janice Ross

Keyword(s):

Dance Education ◽

Early Years ◽

Urban Life ◽

Community Leader ◽

Experimental Theater ◽

Dance Theater ◽

Healing Ritual ◽

And Performance ◽

Experimental Dance ◽

The 1960S

A dancer, choreographer, community leader, and educator, Anna Halprin helped to pioneer what she called "experimental dance" in the 1960s. After training with the modern dance performer and choreographer Doris Humphrey, she turned to dance education, fusing these dual tracks of performance and pedagogy into a practice where dance changed the dancer. Her experimental dance theater events helped prefigure happenings, performance art, and experimental theater works. Located at the boundaries between art and life, healing, ritual, and performance, Halprin created participatory site-specific dances, art events situated in the midst of urban life. Breaking down the boundaries between spectator and performer, her dance events deliberately reconfigured socially marginalized individuals as the subject and medium of performance, including people with HIV/AIDS and the aged. Beginning in the early 1960s, Halprin started offering dance workshops on the "dance deck," the dramatic outdoor wooden dance studio designed in 1953 by Arch Lauterer, the theater designer, and Lawrence Halprin, Halprin’s husband and a renowned urban designer. Halprin’s students in these early years included several who would become founders of dance minimalism, including Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, and Meredith Monk—artists who were inspired by her precedent for framing pedestrian actions as dance, relinquishing control, and embracing difficult personal history as legitimate subject matter for dance.

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Early Years Educator ◽

10.12968/eyed.2018.20.4.46 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 46-48

Keyword(s):

Social Responsibility ◽

Early Years ◽

Children's Books ◽

Children’S Books ◽

Performance Skills ◽

School Learning ◽

Learning Alliance ◽

And Performance

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The Role of Venture Capital Investment in Startups’ Sustainable Growth and Performance: Focusing on Absorptive Capacity and Venture Capitalists’ Reputation

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12083447 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 3447 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jihye Jeong ◽

Juhee Kim ◽

Hanei Son ◽

Dae-il Nam

Keyword(s):

Venture Capital ◽

Absorptive Capacity ◽

Capital Investment ◽

Sustainable Growth ◽

Venture Capital Investment ◽

Initial Stage ◽

The Rich ◽

And Performance ◽

Startup Performance ◽

The Impact

This study provides evidence on how venture capital (VC) investment affects startup firms’ sustainable growth and performance. Despite the rich and abundant research on the relationship between VC investment and startup performance, there is no clear evidence about the contribution of VC investment on the performance and market value of invested firms. In order to accurately measure the impact of VC investment, this study explored how VC investment at each stage of growth affects a startup’s sustainable growth and performance. Based on signaling theory and information asymmetry, this study proposed a positive link between initial-stage VC investment and a startup’s growth and performance. Using a sample of 363 firms listed from 2000 to 2007, this study demonstrated that startups are sustained and perform better as they receive their VC investment at the initial stage. The level of potential absorptive capacity positively moderated this association, unlike realized absorptive capacity, which did not show significant moderating effects.

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