Assignment on Investing in startups as an object of research

The major problem of telecommunication relay service reports is competitors’ analysis, attributes to the market, current trends and the miscellaneous elements which provides additional details.

Another factor is high cost of equipment to provide these services reduces the number of commercial consumers and only those capable of accessing these services equipment is few as compared to the targeted number of expected consumers.

Lack of awareness of this technological in different regions and efficiency maintenance of the devices contributes in the stagnating and hinders the growth of global telecommunication relay service market.

Some regions globally lack awareness of these services despite the fact that they cannot even get these gadgets they cannot afford.

But the Features are as follows:

·       Save conversation.

·       Choose language preference (English, Ukrainian, Russia).

·       Ability to make Ukrainian or Russia language relay calls.

·       Ability to manage typing transmission speed.

·       Ability to receive Text Mail when you are not available to answer IP Relay call.

·       Live online chat with Customer Service.

·       Make 911 emergency calls.

Depending on the technical and physical abilities and physical environments of users, different call types are possible via relay services.

TTY to voice/voice to TTY, Voice carries over, Hearing carry over, Speech To Speech, Deaf blind variation, Captioned telephone, IP CTS, Two-line captioned telephone, Web-based captioned telephone, Other variations, IP relay service or Web-based texts relay services, Video relay service, Video remote interpreting

This includes people who are not members of the original intended user group, who are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech impaired. Some such users have noted its usefulness in making long-distance or local calls free of charge and without a telephone.

Leaders in the deaf community defend this decision and generally retain strong support among service users with hearing and speech disabilities.

In July 2007, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that the 711-requirement extended to VOIP telephony.

Fraudulent calls of both types have been cited as reasons for further relay regulation, and as causes for long hold times that must be endured by many legitimate users.

Most businesses legally cannot have relay calls blocked due to the need for legitimate users to be accommodated, although businesses that are repeatedly victimized by pranks and/or scams often stop trusting relay calls or hang up on them because it is difficult to distinguish legitimate users from illegitimate ones; this is another way that the abusers of the service ultimately victimize the legitimate users, in addition to tying up the service from them.

Investing in startups are essentially buying a piece of the company. They are putting down capital, in exchange for equity: a portion of ownership in the startup and rights to its potential future profits.

By doing so, investors are forming a partnership with the startups they choose to invest in – if the company turns a profit, investors make returns proportionate to their amount of equity in the startup; if the startup fails, the investors lose the money they’ve invested.

Startup investors make a profit from their investments when they sell part or all of their portion of ownership in the company during a liquidity event such as an IPO or acquisition.

Liquidity refers to how easy it is to convert a security (something that you own with economic value) into cash money.

Liquidity event is an opportunity to turn money that is tied up in equity into cold, hard cash. A common example is an IPO (Initial Public Offering) – the first sale of stock by private companies to the public – often referred to as “going public”.),

An asset is a piece of property with economic value, owned by an individual, a corporation, or the government, and expected to provide future benefit to the owner.

Assets commonly generate future cash flow, reduce expenses, or improve sales. Assets are divided into asset classes – groups of securities (ownership rights) that exhibit shared characteristics, behave similarly in the marketplace, and are governed by the same laws and regulations.

Startup equity, for example, is regarded as a high-risk, high-reward, highly illiquid asset class.

This means that investing in startup equity is very risky, because many startups fail to return investors’ money, and startup equity is relatively more difficult to sell before the company IPO's. However, this increased risk and illiquidity is coupled with the potential for a very large return if the startup succeeds.

Some startups will allow investors to sell their shares of stock in the company before the IPO; referred to as a secondary sale of stock.

However, many startups will issue a right of first refusal, which requires investors who want to unload stock before a company goes public to first offer to sell it back to the startup or its early investors (called a tender offer).

Most startups also put restrictions on the secondary sale of common stock, or stock held by founders and employees.

Two pragmatic approaches can be selected for the investment and these approaches include “Partner with” and “Procure from” the similar entities and startups.

The financing system for the services will induce fragmenting impact on demonstration of provision of sigh relay services. The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is providing funds for the innovative startup in the telecommunication.

These funds can be utilized to provide efficient services to the users. The possible impact of the services and funds will be on the profitable services for VRS providers and the pure process is based on the time-based changes.

The effect is profitable for the VRS providers and it will provide equipment to the users. Through making the process more complicated it becomes impossible to reach the required goals therefore proper investment is required to maintain the process.

Federal communication commission FCC is providing enough funds to bring reforms and innovation in the startup. FCC is further struggling to make correct services for the customers with reduced negative side effect and financing system.

Some of the new regulations are required for the VRS providers and it make possible to improve the services.

It is often believed that Telecom operators are required to be exposed with the improved capability is towards the third parties. This exposure to the third party can integrate them into product portfolio and the service providers of the current age.

Majority of engagement in the business startups are centered on the creating product, developing innovation in the product, customer experience driven by sales and marketing, and services.