The Investment Bankers' Case: Some Observations

Investment Criteria of Bankers , Venture Capitalists and Business Angels

Most potential funders wish to see a business plan as a first step in deciding whether or not to invest. However, much of the literature on how to write a business plan fails to emphasize that different types of funder look at business plans from different perspectives. Using a real time methodology this article highlights the different investment criteria of bankers, venture capital fund manag...

Some observations on the feeding of the guinea pig

Some Observations on the Metabolism

For many years clinical interest in D-galactose centered about the usefulness of galactose tolerance tests in the diagnosis of impaired liver function. Several investigators, employing an intravenous galactose tolerance test, have reported their results (1-3). The monograph by Stenstam (4) is perhaps the most extensive analysis of both the oral and intravenous tolerance test yet reported. In al...

Some Observations on the Simplex

We discuss some properties of the set of simplices in E n

AIDS and the blood bankers.

SINCE DECEMBER 1982, when it became clear that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) could be transmitted by blood transfusion, the blood bankers and their federal regulators have been unwaveringly optimistic that the spread of this lethal new disease by transfusion could be controlled. In June 1983, Edward Carr, the president of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) said "there i...