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So, scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do is we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully arbecome very Big Companies like facebook or google or apple someday and then if we are doing our jobs correctly we are also helping them grow the company so we dont work in the businesses but hopefully we can provide introductions to them and help them navigate new challenges as they go through the business so we like to think of ourselves as a money provider and hopefully a supporter as the business grows. Why cant a company such as a the one you describe go through a bank and do traditional avenues. Good question. The problem is most of the businesses we reinvest in our ricky businesses and lose money for a long period of time as they invest in banks are just not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing their capitals so we are willing to take that risk and in fact half of what we invest in will lose our money and any bank wh
Ebooks are sold. Host so scott cooper what is a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do is we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or apple someday. Forging her jobs correctly we are also helping them grow the company so we do not obviously work in the businesses that we can hopefully provide introductions for them p help navigate new challenges asge they go through the business we like to think of ourselves as a money provider and hopefully a supporter as the business grows. Why does the company like you describe not go through a bank and go through traditional avenues . Speech its a good question the problem is most ofro the businesses that we invest in our very risky businesses that are going to lose money for a long period of time as they invest ine the business and banks unfortunately are just not in the business of doing that or take a risk for losing capital paired for willing to take that risk
Which means they were the vast majority of the comp sales the in store sales were. 9 . The stores fulfilled 80 of the digital orders in some way Brian Cornell said the retailer will spend 500 million from the beginning of march through july 4th on higher wages and other operational expenses related to the covid crisis so this spending goes beyond q 1 into q 2 not directly comparable with what we heard from walmart yesterday. The sales came at a cost their operating Income Margin was 2. 4 compared to 6. 4 in the same period last year and the gross margin rate was 25 compared to nearly 30 last year but then look at lowes, Michael Baker calls lowes perhaps the most surprising result of the quarter for retail their comparable sales grew more than 11 total up more than 12 in the u. S. Thats only the fourth time in at least ten years we think that lowes beat home depot in the u. S. Both retailers had identical online sales growth in the quarter of 80 but that is a huge growth compared to las
Whether you embrace or reject etfs, they are here to stay. The flows signal Broader Market trends. Lets check in with Eric Balchunas. A snapshot of the flows and the theme is risky assets like the stocks. Eric thank you, scarlet. Im feeling like a broken record. Every week, i am saying people are excited about the fed being accommodative. It felt like about two months. Another week of the same thing. 15 billion into etfs. We have spy, the cuse. You also have ibv and some vanguard funds. Both major player types are buying in. I thought, this seems to have started in the beginning of june when the fed reassured markets. Lets capture june and july. The complexion of the flows is changing and this chart shows it is. June and july, etfs took in 85 billion. That is more than the rest of the year combined. That is a lot of money coming in. U. S. Equity etfs are taking in three times more than they did at the beginning part of the year. More than fixed income. They are now the leaders, which i