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| Second-stage financing |
Second-stage financing: A startup's sales at this point are starting to snowball. The company is also rapidly accumulating accounts receivable and inventory. Capital from this stage is used for funding expansion in all its forms from meeting increasing marketing expenses to entering new markets to financing rapidly increasing accounts receivable.
Venture capital firms specializing in later stage funding start investing at this point.
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| Secondary Placement |
Placement of privately held shares among other private equity investment organisations, investor pools or shareholders.
APMC secondary placements are an interesting exit alternative to an IPO: shares are not offered publicly on a stock exchange, but sold to other investors interested in a financial participation only. Our partners’ investors don’t have strategic objectives. |
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| Secondary Public Offering | Secondary Public Offering refers to a public offering subsequent to an initial public offering. A secondary public offering can be either an issuer offering or an offering by a group that has purchased the issuer's securities in the public markets.
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| Secondary Purchase | Secondary Purchase is purchase of stock in a company from a shareholder rather than purchasing stock directly from the company. |
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| Seed Capital |
Seed Capital is the money used to purchase equity-based interest in a new or existing company. This seed capital is usually quite small because the venture is still in the idea or conceptual stage. |
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| Seed or Concept stage financing |
1st financing phase for a start-up company which is still in the idea formation stage and has not fully developed its products or services yet. The founder team is given a small amount of capital to come up with a working prototype. Monies may also be spent on marketing research, patent application, incorporation, and legal structuring for investors.
It's rare for a venture capital firm to fund this stage. In most cases, the money must come from the founder's own pocket, from the "3 Fs" (Family, Friends, and Fools), and occasionally from angel investors.
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| Series A Preferred Stock | Series A Preferred Stock is the first round of stock offered during the seed or early stage round by a portfolio company to the venture capitalist. Series A preferred stock is convertible into common stock in certain cases such as an IPO or the sale of the company. Later rounds of preferred stock in a private company are called Series B, Series C and so on.
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| Silent Partner | A silent partner is an investor who does not have any management responsibilities but provides capital and shares liability for any losses experienced by the entity. Silent partners are liable for in any losses up to the amount of their invested capital and participate in any tax and cash flow benefits. Silent partner is also known as a "sleeping
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| Six Sigma | Six Sigma refers to a quality and overall management system aiming to achieve lasting business leadship and world-class performance. Thereby the statistical measure (sigma): standard deviation plays a key role. The goal of Six Sigma based management is near perfection improvement of production or services. The methode Six Sigma has become a very successfull approach since adoption by large companies such as Motorola and General Electrics. Read more on www.isixsigma.com. |
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| Six Sigma Implementation Degree | The quality management system Six Sigma can be implemented on three different degrees or levels of intensity:
A. Business Transformation: the whole organisation adopts Six Sigma principles.
B. Strategic Improvement: Only strategic important parts of the organisation adopt Six Sigma principles.
C. Problem Solving: Six Sigma is applied only for certain problem zones.
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| Six Themes of Six Sigma | 1. Genuine focus on customer satisfaction (CTQ's)
2. Data- and Fact-Driven Management
3. Process as the key vehicle of success
4. Proactive Management
5. Boundaryless collaboration
6. Drive for perfection, tolare failure
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| Startup |
Startup is a new business venture in its earliest stage of development.
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| Startup financing | 2nd startup financing stage where work is being done on testing and finalizing the prototype for production or launch of version 1.0.
Early stage venture capitalists may fund this stage. But more likely, it will be sophisticated angel investors.
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| Supply Chain Management |
Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer. Supply chain management involves coordinating and integrating these flows both within and among companies. It is said that the ultimate goal of any effective supply chain management system is to reduce inventory (with the assumption that products are available when needed). APMC offers overall SCM consulting services.
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| SWOT Analysis |
The SWOT analysis is a common consulting instrument to scan internal and external environment as a part of the strategic controlling or planning process. Environmental factors internal to the firm usually can be classified as strength (S) or weaknesses (W), and that external to the firm can be classified as opportunity (O) or threats (T).
However all four aspects of an analysis can be applied to both sides.
The SWOT analysis provides information that is helpful in matching the firm's resources and a capability to the competitive environment in which it operates. As such, it is instrumental in strategy formulation and selection.
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| Syndication | Syndication is the process whereby a group of investors will each put in a portion of the amount of money needed to finance a small business. |
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| Target | A company suitable for takeover is described as a target. |
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| Term sheet | Term sheet is a non-binding agreement setting forth the basic terms and conditions under which an investment will be made. The term sheet is a template that is used to develop more detailed legal documents.
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| Third Stage Capital | Third Stage Capital is the capital provided to an enterprise that has established commercial production and basic marketing set-up, typically for market expansion, acquisitions, product development, etc. |
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| Third-stage financing |
Third stage financing:
At this stage the future of a startup looks bright. Everything looks good. Sales are climbing. Customers are happy. The second level of managers is in place.
Money from this financing is used for increasing plant capacity (or other capacity depending on the nature of the business), marketing, working capital, and product improvement or expansion.
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| Trade sale | Exit type for Venture Capital or other investors selling a company directly to another company. |
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| Turnaround | Turnaround is the term used when the poor performance of a company or the business experiences a positive reversal. |
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| Underwriter | An Underwriter is an investment banking firm committing successful distribution of a public issue, failing which the firm would take the securities being offered into its own books. An underwriter may also be a company that backs the issue of a contract, agreeing to accept responsibility for fulfilling the contract in return for a premium.
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| Venture Capital | Venture Capital is the money and resources made available to startup firms and small businesses with exceptional growth potential. Most venture capital money comes from an organized group of wealthy investors. |
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| Venture capital funds | Venture capital funds pool and manage money from investors seeking private equity stakes in small and medium-size enterprises with strong growth potential.
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