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Incubator
"Startup incubators are organizations that offer help to entrepreneurs to develop their business ideas. These companies are characterized...
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Oct 6, 20241 min read
Alternative Investments
"Alternative investments is a label for a disparate group of investments that are distinguished from long-only, publicly traded...
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Oct 5, 20241 min read
Unicorn
"A unicorn startup is a company that's been in business for under ten years, isn’t publicly listed, haven’t been acquired by a third...
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Oct 4, 20241 min read
Spin-out Company
"A spin-out company is an independent legal entity, usually created by the university and academic founders, to lead the development and...
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Oct 3, 20241 min read
Zombie Company
"A zombie company is a business that generates cash, but is so indebted that it can only pay off its fixed costs and interests, and not...
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Oct 1, 20241 min read
Dry Powder
"Dry powder refers to the reserves of liquid assets that a company or an individual holds, primarily to cover future obligations,...
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Oct 1, 20241 min read
Black Propaganda
"Black propaganda goes beyond hiding the identity of the source of the message to falsely attributing it to a different entity, such as...
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Sep 29, 20241 min read
Community Interest Company
"A community interest company (CIC) is a type of Limited Liability company formed specifically for the purpose of carrying on business...
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Sep 28, 20241 min read
The Business Lesson of INEOS Automotive
Let’s kick off straight away and play it clear here: we all should be able to learn from the success of others and - if smart enough -...
Giordano Tomasini
Sep 22, 20245 min read
Controlled Unclassified Information
"Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) is information the Government creates or possesses, or that an entity creates or possesses for...
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Sep 22, 20241 min read
Alpha Investing
"Alpha represents how much an investment’s actual return exceeded its expected return, based on its risk level. Alpha is used to evaluate...
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Sep 21, 20241 min read
Credit Default Swap
"A CDS is the most highly utilized type of credit derivative. [...] a CDS is similar to an insurance contract, providing the buyer with...
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
Economic Espionage
"Economic espionage is foreign power-sponsored or coordinated intelligence activity directed at the [...] government or [...]...
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Sep 19, 20241 min read
Dead Hand Proxy Put
"Dead Hand Proxy Puts trigger default and immediate repayment of corporate indebtedness in the event that a dissident slate of...
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Sep 18, 20241 min read
Repurchase Agreement
"In a repo, one party sells an asset [...] to another party at one price and commits to repurchase the same or another part of the same...
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Sep 17, 20241 min read
Crown Jewel Defense
"The Crown Jewel Defense strategy in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is when the target company of a hostile takeover sells its most...
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Sep 16, 20241 min read
Decentralized Finance
"Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a competitive, contestable, composable and non-custodial financial ecosystem built on technology that...
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Sep 15, 20241 min read
The Liquid Future of Real Estate
Entering real estate transactions often implies an uncountable amount of time spent on research, analysis, discussions, evaluations, and...
Giordano Tomasini
Sep 14, 20245 min read
Quantitative Easing
"A form of monetary policy that is sometimes used to stimulate the economy when interest rates have already been reduced close to zero;...
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Sep 14, 20241 min read
Sovereign Wealth Fund
"It’s simply a mechanism through which countries make investments. A pot of money – often derived from oil or other commodities – that is...
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Sep 13, 20241 min read
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