Across
- 4. places where entrepreneurs can receive the training and other assistance to build a successful start-up business
- 5. firm with four or more businesses making unrelated products, with no single business responsible for a majority of its sales
- 6. industries that prefer to have their factories closer to the market for the finished product because it is difficult or more expensive to transport than their raw materials
- 8. report showing a business's sales, expenses, and profits for a certain period, usually three months or a year
- 9. total amount of new funds the business generates from operations; broadest measure of profits for a firm because it includes both net income and noncash charges
- 10. a business’s proximity to its consumers or to the source of its inventories or necessary raw materials
- 12. combination of two or more business enterprises to form a single firm
- 13. provider of investment funds to a start-up business in exchange for partial ownership of the business
- 14. measure of business profits determined by subtracting all expenses, including taxes, from revenues
- 16. combination of firms producing the same kind of product
- 17. combination of firms involved in different steps of manufacturing, marketing, or sales
Down
- 1. industries that prefer to be situated close to their raw materials in order to “lose” unnecessary material because the finished product is lighter, easier, or cheaper to transport
- 2. the distance people are willing to travel to visit a location where the product is sold
- 3. informal and usually affluent investors who provide funds to less-promising start-ups
- 7. corporation producing and selling without regard to national boundaries and whose business activities are located in several different countries
- 11. minimum stimulus needed to produce a nerve impulse.
- 15. using social networking to appeal to potential investors