1. The stimulus-response mechanism of the mind that is not under conscious control. This mechanism exerts force and the power of command over a person’s awareness, purposes, thoughts, body, and actions.
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An asset that an individual, team, or business has that they are unaware of or don’t recognize their true value. These assets are not listed on their financial statement or balance sheet and include relationships, customer base, vendors, investors, systems, ideas, know-how, specialized knowledge, marketing strategies, technologies, excess capacity, talent, capability, free time, creativity, written off inventory, custom software, current expenditure, unexplored markets, wasted resources, etc. and ways these assets are valuable to others and can be monetized.
1. An electron in the outermost shell of an atom involved in forming a chemical bond. 2. An identity of somebody other than the identity selected by oneself. Somebody else’s identity assumed by a person unknowingly. Include habits and mannerisms which are a result of a person’s compulsion to copy certain people. A valence is a false or true identity. Each person has their own valence. Substitute for self, taken on after a loss of confidence in oneself. The combined package of a personality which one assumes as does an actor on a stage except in life one doesn’t usually assume them knowingly.
1. An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return. 2. Monetary or material worth: the fluctuating value of gold and silver. 3. Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor. 4. A principle or standard, as of behavior, that is considered important or desirable. 5. Precise meaning or import, as of a word. 6. A quantity or number expressed by an algebraic term. 7. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. 2. The degree of importance given to something. 8. That which is valued or highly esteemed, as one’s morals, morality, or belief system.
An investment strategy that involves buying a stock that appears underpriced by some form of fundamental analysis. The stock may be trading at a discount to the book value or tangible book value, have high dividend yields, have low price-to-earning multiples or have low price-to-book ratios. High-profile proponents of value investing, including Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, who for more than 25 years, has taken the value investing concept even further with a focus on “finding an outstanding company at a sensible price” rather than generic companies at a bargain price.
Business financing for startups and high-growth businesses that have long-term growth potential. The risk is typically high for investors, but the upside offers significant opportunity. Start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology, social media or biotechnology. Firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for an ownership stake. Typically venture capital investment occurs after an initial seed funding round. The first round of institutional venture capital is called the Series A round. Venture capitalists provide this financing in the interest of generating a return through an eventual “exit” event, such as the company selling shares to the public in an IPO or doing a merger and acquisition.
An individual who commits or threatens physical, emotional, mental, financial, or spiritual harm to another person, party or organization. Typical justifications include “the ends justify the means.” Villains often demonstrate unlikable traits such as judgments, prejudices, egoism, immaturity, cockiness, or a single-minded focus on things such as wealth, power, fame, status, or revenge.