Zugl.: Augsburg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

Habilitationsschrift--Bonn. / Bibliography: p. 277-282.

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The Diploma thesis Angels in the Bible. The role of angels in biblical texts tries to describe the role of angels in the Bible based on the contexts containing the term angel. Then it analyzes and briefly characterizes individual texts of the Old and New Testament in which the term angel occures. With the help of this analysis it is possible to observe what role did the angels serve: they announced the birth of a son, God's election, God's commands, they become the life savers, leaders and protectors of the Israel nation and executors of God's punishment. An angel - interpreter acts in the apocalyptic texts. In the New Testament, angels also announce the birth of Jesus and John the Baptist, announce the God's will to people, they announce the resurrection and protect the church similarly to Israel. The most angels figure in the Book of Revelation and they play all roles known from apocalyptic literature: angel - interpreter, angel - guardian, as well as angels who participate on the heavenly council and effect the judgement according to the God's commands.

Este trabalho objetiva investigar e compreender sobre os câmbios estéticos da figura do anjo na publicidade e suas inúmeras significações representadas simbolicamente em campanhas e anúncios. Por ser objeto de estudo ressurgente, o anjo torna-se mito atemporal, que transpassa os séculos, atualizando-se como imagem, a fim de adaptar-se aos preceitos da contemporaneidade. Em face disso, esta produção científica será embasada em pesquisa teórica e qualitativa obtendo resultados através da coleta de anúncios retirados de meios impressos e internet, tendo como suporte antropológico a História da Arte e consequentemente o campo da Estética da Comunicação. Visa, dessa forma, compreender o mito alado e seu desmembramento em arquétipos, de maneira que permita analisar a utilização do símbolo como linguagem, pois ao permitir que a leitura do mundo seja realizada através do seu constante ressurgimento como mito, o anjo se recontextualiza através de mudanças estéticas, buscando tornar-se sempre atual para a sociedade, sendo representado imageticamente de distintas formas na publicidade. / This study has the objective to investigate and understand about the aesthetic changes at Angel figure in the advertising and its many meanings, represented symbolically in campaigns and ads. By be object of study resurgent, the angel becomes timeless myth that pierces the centuries and has been updated as image in order to adapt to the precepts of contemporary times. On the face of it, this scientific output will be grounded in research theoric and qualitative, through getting results by collecting removed ads from printed and internet media, having as anthropological support the Art history and consequently the field of Aesthetics of Communication . Visa thus understand the winged myth and its dismemberment in archetypes, so that the analysis of the use of this symbol as language, can allowing the reading of the world through of its constant resurgence as myth, this way the angel is recontextualised through changes aesthetic, seeking to become ever present to society and be represented imagetically in different ways in the advertising.

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Seed technology ventures require external sources of debt and equity funding, once they have exhausted founders personal resources, to achieve their potential economic impact. The primary source of equity finance for seed ventures is from Business Angels who invest their own money in the company and frequently provide additional sources of assistance to the entrepreneur. Once seed ventures have completed their business plans, however informally, they pitch their opportunity to potential investors, However, less than three per cent of these pitches to Business Angels are successful. It is suggested that a major reason for this low success rates is a lack of understanding by pitching entrepreneurs of how Business Angels make their investment decisions. Investigating how Business Angels make their investment decisions will identify some of the causes of this high failure rate. In turn this will help to suggest ways for entrepreneurs to increase their likelihood of successful interactions with investors. Real-time techniques that involve observing successive interactions between five Business Angels and 150 pitching entrepreneurs are used to gather data on the investment decision-making process. The technique of observational interaction has been used in psychological research to observe interpersonal relationships and their development within the context of a complex process. This complex process can best be understood by breaking down the process into stages. In this research the initial interaction between entrepreneur and Business Angel is investigated. It is found that initially the Business Angels use a filtering technique to expeditiously reject most opportunities. This allows, allow them to concentrate their limited resources on further investigation of a few promising opportunities that appear to offer the highest potential return. The unique data set used in this research is taken from a reality TV show – CBC Dragons’ Den – where entrepreneurs participate in order to receive real investment from five wealthy individuals known as “Dragons”. Using the video material gathered during the recording of the show it is possible to observe how the five Dragons initially filter out most opportunities, before looking at more positive factors when determining their interest in investing in the few opportunities remaining. This filtering process involves a non-compensatory technique - Elimination-By-Aspects, where the presence of a single one of eight potential fatal flaws is sufficient reason for rejection. While this may not be the most accurate technique, it is the most cost effective approach to decision-making for the investors. To increase accuracy at later stages, the investors adopt a more compensatory decision-making approaches. Improved understanding of the staged nature of the process, and how Business Angels identify fatal flaws at the initial stage of the interaction, provides valuable insights to both investors and entrepreneurs. Armed with this knowledge they can take steps to eliminate such flaws and improve the overall efficiency of the decision making process. This in turn will lead to an increase in successful outcomes of such interactions and consequently the number of seed ventures that are successful in raising third-party funding from Business Angels.

Seed technology ventures require external sources of debt and equity funding, once they have exhausted founders personal resources, to achieve their potential economic impact. The primary source of equity finance for seed ventures is from Business Angels who invest their own money in the company and frequently provide additional sources of assistance to the entrepreneur. Once seed ventures have completed their business plans, however informally, they pitch their opportunity to potential investors, However, less than three per cent of these pitches to Business Angels are successful. It is suggested that a major reason for this low success rates is a lack of understanding by pitching entrepreneurs of how Business Angels make their investment decisions. Investigating how Business Angels make their investment decisions will identify some of the causes of this high failure rate. In turn this will help to suggest ways for entrepreneurs to increase their likelihood of successful interactions with investors. Real-time techniques that involve observing successive interactions between five Business Angels and 150 pitching entrepreneurs are used to gather data on the investment decision-making process. The technique of observational interaction has been used in psychological research to observe interpersonal relationships and their development within the context of a complex process. This complex process can best be understood by breaking down the process into stages. In this research the initial interaction between entrepreneur and Business Angel is investigated. It is found that initially the Business Angels use a filtering technique to expeditiously reject most opportunities. This allows, allow them to concentrate their limited resources on further investigation of a few promising opportunities that appear to offer the highest potential return. The unique data set used in this research is taken from a reality TV show – CBC Dragons’ Den – where entrepreneurs participate in order to receive real investment from five wealthy individuals known as “Dragons”. Using the video material gathered during the recording of the show it is possible to observe how the five Dragons initially filter out most opportunities, before looking at more positive factors when determining their interest in investing in the few opportunities remaining. This filtering process involves a non-compensatory technique - Elimination-By-Aspects, where the presence of a single one of eight potential fatal flaws is sufficient reason for rejection. While this may not be the most accurate technique, it is the most cost effective approach to decision-making for the investors. To increase accuracy at later stages, the investors adopt a more compensatory decision-making approaches. Improved understanding of the staged nature of the process, and how Business Angels identify fatal flaws at the initial stage of the interaction, provides valuable insights to both investors and entrepreneurs. Armed with this knowledge they can take steps to eliminate such flaws and improve the overall efficiency of the decision making process. This in turn will lead to an increase in successful outcomes of such interactions and consequently the number of seed ventures that are successful in raising third-party funding from Business Angels.

<p>For entrepreneurs it can be difficult to attract investors. The business plan is a well-known document for that purpose, and is used widely by entrepreneurs and companies. With this in mind, several questions arise. What information in a business plan is important? Do the criteria for information in a business plan differ between banks, venture capital companies, and business angels? What is the perception of a business plan to these investors? These are questions future entrepreneurs have to deal with before taking action and start searching for investors. This thesis investigates the investors’ perspective on the issue of entrepreneurship and business planning.The purpose of this thesis is to broaden the understanding of the business plan as a mean to attract capital for new ventures. It further aims to investigate the relevance of the business plan and the optimal composition of information, according to the investors. A qualitative method has been used in this thesis. Empirical findings have been captured from interviews with relevant actors in the investing market, and thereafter been analyzed with existing theories. The overall conclusion in this thesis is that there is a very broad view of the business plan as a concept. There are different aspects of the business plans roles as a formal mean to attract capital. Obvious differences between how the three different investors evaluate a business plan have been found as well as that the investors find other things than the business plan to be important in a decision. The investors do not look solely on the business plan and then make the decision whether to invest or not. The third conclusion is that all three investors enter a company with different roles, affecting the business’ activities in different ways. Finally, the business plan as a document is never as formal as the theory states. It is surprisingly different from the theory which claims that formality is an important issue in this kind of documents.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2003. / "December 2003." Title taken from PDF title screen (viewed October 22, 2007). Includes bibliographical references.