Exercise

I offered you to prepare an exercise, here it is.

1.     1. To form startup capital you can …

2.     2. Before launching a company you should… 

3.     3. During writing business plan you will…

4.     4. When you raise finance you can borrow money but you …

5.     5.  You should know that banks like to…

a)           should be sure that you can repay a loan, as well as cover overheads.

b)           use assets as collateral.

c)            use your personal savings or take a loan.

d)           have to forecast sales and profits.

e)           carry out market research.

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- OK, everybody here? Yes, right, anyone want to start the ball rolling? No? Well, I'll begin. We should talk about yesterday meeting with our competitors. In our dog-eat-dog situation we have level playing field. Therefore we must develop a new strategy to win this battle.
- We know it may not be plain sailing for a while but changes are necessary to keep the business alive. I’m sure that we will battle it out and launching a new product is half the battle.
- In a way you are right, if we sail into uncharted waters, we may have not a soft landing.  
- Thanks to this we can win the battle but lose the war. The ball is in our court, and we shouldn’t jump the gun, because it can be our own goal. That is why we must wait for appropriate moment and blow them out of the water.
- Yes, I totally agree with you. Let make them to hear fat lady singing. And put them out to pasture.
- OK, let’s resume our discussion next week when R&D department will have carried out market research.

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Women entrepreneurs’ blog

Some days ago I looked through Women entrepreneurs’ blog and had a great pleasure to read their notes. It’s rather interesting topic and many times I was a witness of tough discussions about women entrepreneurship in mass media. I know, that quite a lot men are sure that women must sit at home all day long, cook, look after children, wash everything etc. But from my point of view such thoughts and ideas must be buried at the past.

Everything is changing and now very often we can see that women play men’s roles. At first sight it’s OK. Women have equal rights with men. They can choose whether devote life to work or to family. And more and more women chose their work, business and so on. Nowadays women are real competitors for men in business field.

But every question has some pros and cons. With increasing number of women entrepreneurs decrease the number of normal families. What do I have in mind when I say “normal family”? It is simply when man works and supports family and woman keeps household and takes care about children (to tell the truth, it is her natural responsibilities) ,she also can works somewhere just for her pleasure. May be it is an ideal family. Nevertheless, it’s a pity that such families are a rare thing.

I’m sure that there is no difference between men and women entrepreneurship. Both must have some special qualities to become a successful person. But the worst thing is that when women devote their life to business the first who suffer from it are their children. I know just a few families where woman successfully combines business and family. It looks like exception from rules. Usually women forget about their family and children and they grow up in good conditions, without problems with money but also without parents love, care and attention.

Eventually, I should say that it is nice when woman has a good job, when she raises money, when she has a favorite occupation because household routine can dement. But if she decides to start own business, she must never forget that first of all she is a woman.