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[[wages]]: a form of pay given to employees in exchange for the work they have done 
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[[value added]]: originally, the difference between the cost of bought-in materials and the eventual selling price of the finished product 
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[[waiver of premium]]: a provision of an insurance policy that suspends payment of premiums, for example, if the insured suffers disabling injury  
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[[value-added tax]]: a tax added at each stage in the manufacture of a product. It acts as a replacement for a sales tax in almost every industrialized country outside North America.  
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[[wallet technology]]: a software package providing digital wallets or purses on the computers of merchants and customers to facilitate payment by digital cash 
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[[variable annuity]]: an annuity whose payments depend either on the success of investments that underlie it, or on the value of the index
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[[Wall Street]]: the U.S. financial industry, or the area of New York City where much of its business is done  
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[[variable cost]]: a cost of production that is directly proportional to the number of units produced  
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[[waste management]]: a sustainable process for reducing the environmental impact of the disposal of all types of materials used by businesses. 
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[[variable interest rate]]: an interest rate that changes, usually in relation to a standard index, during the period of the loan 
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[[wealth]]: physical assets such as a house or financial assets such as stocks and shares that can yield an income for their holder
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[[venture capital]]: money used to finance new companies or projects, especially those with high earning potential and high risk. 
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[[Web marketing]]: the process of creating, developing, and enhancing a Web site in order to increase the number of visits by potential customers  
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[[venture funding]]: the round of funding
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for a new company that follows seed funding provided by venture capitalists.  
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[[weighted average]]: an average of quantities that have been adjusted by the addition of a statistical value to allow for their relative importance in a data set  
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[[venture management]]: the collaboration of various sections within an organization to encourage entrepreneurial spirit, increase innovation, and produce successful new products more quickly  
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[[whistleblowing]]: speaking out to the media or the public on malpractice, misconduct, corruption, or mismanagement witnessed in an organization
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[[verbal contract]]: an agreement that is oral and not written down. It remains legally enforceable by the parties who have agreed to it.
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[[wholesale price]]: a price charged to customers who buy large quantities of an item for resale in smaller quantities to others
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[[vertical market]]: a market that is oriented to one particular specialty, for example, plastics manufacturing or transportation engineering 
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[[wholesaling]]: businesses and individuals engaged in the activity of selling products to retailers, organizational users or other wholesalers. Selling for resale.  
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[[viral marketing]]: the rapid spread of a message about a new product or service in a similar way to the spread of a virus  
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[[withholding tax]]: the money that an employer pays directly to the U.S. government as a payment of the income tax on the employee
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[[virtual organization]]: a temporary network of companies, suppliers, customers, or employees, linked by information and communications technologies, with the purpose of delivering a service or product.
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[[word of mouse]]: word-of-mouth publicity on the Internet. Owing to the fast-paced and interactive nature of online markets, word of mouse can spread much faster than its offline counterpart  
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[[vision statement]]: a statement giving a broad, aspirational image of the future that an organization is aiming to achieve.   
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[[working capital]]: The excess of current assets over current liabilities. The cash needed to keep the business running from day to
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[[voting rights]]: the rights that shareholders have to vote on matters affecting a corporation 
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[[vulture capitalist]]: a venture capitalist who structures deals on behalf of an entrepreneur in such a way that the investors benefit rather than the entrepreneur

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