Week 8 Reading Reflection

Kuratko Chapter 8: Sources of Capital for Entrepreneurial Ventures

1. This week's reading was material that I had never seen before. So most aspects of this chapter were very interesting as it covered surprising but interesting text. I was able to finally learn that sources of debt include trade credit, accounts receivables, factoring, and finance companies.
2. One part that was confusing in the reading was the nature of public offerings. Although they sound simple enough, public offerings are NOT used to refer to corporations taking public donations ro raise capital. I was confused about the advantages and disadvantes for a firm to go public. How would they inevitably decide?
3. I would ask the authors:
• What would want to make you, as a CEO, to want to take your company public?
• What is the best method, in your opinion, to raise capital?
• I would want to ask the author these questions as it would be extremely beneficial to get his personal take on matters presented in the text that he wrote.
4. I did not find anything in the article that the author was wrong about.