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What is a project?
A project is a set of activities aimed at achieving one or more targets, following a methodology, which has a start date and end date, which corresponds with something unique not previously done.
Because a project always correspond with something new yet unrealized, management can be considered something of an art, and is closely related to creativity and intelligence.
Types of projects
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Project Financing Examples
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For project financing, we have to communicate with people and explain our project. It will be helpful to be clear about all possible types of projects that exist as quickly discarding what is not our project, we can move forward and focus on what it is.
- Depending on the size: for the cost, number of participants, length.
- Under the guidance / rationale / purpose (eg: profitability, welfare, safety, artistic development, etc.).
- Economic (profitability) and indifferent to others
- Economic together with a specific mission
- Specific mission
Usually most of the big companies, if not all, belong to the first group. If you specialize or diversify its activities and products is always following an economic criterion, or strategic, is also cheap but the long term. Do not care about selling one thing or another as it is profitable and remains reasonably within the law.
In a way governments also fall into this classification. The sharing mechanism "benefits" is much more complex than any private company, but there is a strong parallel. The company seeks the benefit of matching supply with demand. This implies at least three lines of action: 1) To offer the best product for this demand. Modify the product to best suit the application (traditional view) 2) Modify the application to best suit the product (brand). This is the basic approach of advertising. 3) Do others do it. Each of these will or will not be "fair play" based on whether or not it is the common good.
Projects with a specific mission under small organizations in many people, since according to a growing number of people involved in a group, the harder it is to have to agree on a mission.
There are at least the following sources of project financing:
- Private Funds:
- Equity:
- Time, money, equipment, physical space
- The sale of shares of the company itself
- Sales of goods and services, cash flow
- Sponsors, advertising sales
- Employees as investors, Cooperatives
- Foreign funds
- Investors FFF: Friends, Family and Fools, and founders. Friends, Family and Fools / Fools (Irrational) and Founders (first round)
- Business Angels (second round)
- Private Equity
- Bank loan
- Loans from individuals
- Public funds:
- Fellowships, grants, subsidies
- Competitions, prizes
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