From the course: Finance for Non-Financial Managers (2015)
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Entrepreneurs, investors, and facilitators
From the course: Finance for Non-Financial Managers (2015)
Entrepreneurs, investors, and facilitators
- Now let's think about what's going on outside of companies with regard to finance. Let's think about all the economic activity in the world as a sea, an ocean with three kinds of players swimming around in that ocean. First, there are the entrepreneurs. The creators, the doers. Organizations with ideas, objectives. These are the companies looking for funding. They're swimming around out there. There are also investors swimming around out there. These are the entities, individuals, companies who have saved money in the past and are now ready to lend it or invest it in somebody else. Finally, there are facilitators swimming around out there. Specialized institutions that will match up the entrepreneurs who have ideas but don't have money, with the investors who've got the money. That's the economic environment that we're talking about. So we've got the entrepreneurs who are running companies. We've already talked about…
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