ZIPCAR Case 1. Who are Zipcar’s primary stakeholders‚ and what are their particular interests? Zipcar’s primary stakeholders include their internal claimants‚ which are the executives and employees such as Scott Grffith; chairman and CEO‚ Steve Case; board of director‚ Ed Goldfinger; CFO‚ and Mark Norman; President and COO. Their particular interests are to drive Zipcar forward giving it strategic growth. They also aim maintain the business model and operations while maintaining focus on customer
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Borrowed Car‚ Inc: Zipcar Watch Out Car Sharing & Opportunities for Growth Zipcar‚ Inc. is an entrepreneurial venture started in 1999 and was incorporated in the year 2000 by founders Robin Chase and Antje Danielson. The Zipcar business model is a sophisticated form of car sharing that was innovative for the time. Yet‚ it is important to note that this form of company is not the first of its kind. This would be a potential business to model our business after. Our goal is to create a smart economical
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into a venture idea‚ a business model‚ and set of distinctive new products and services. With this venture strategy in hand‚ you will then learn how to best raise venture financing‚ how to write a powerful business plan‚ and create a compelling pitch for investors. This course will also show how these methods can be applied for corporate ventures as well as startups. In the first part of the course‚ we will focus on developing and testing your venture idea. This includes:
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Global Entrepreneurship Program Entrepreneurship Boot Camp (6 ECTS‚ 36 hours‚ one week intensive seminar) Professor: Telephone: E-mail: Frédéric Delmar‚ PhD +33 (0)4 78 33 70 18/+46 8 665 45 32 delmar@em-lyon.com Office hours: Assistant: Friday‚ 9:00 – 12:00‚ or by appointment Elisabeth Gelas (gelas@em-lyon.com) Class Meetings Monday to Friday 08:30 am – 05.30pm Saturday 08:30 am – 12:00 am September‚ 5th September 10th‚ 2011 Course Materials: Textbook and a set of
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Case Study Discussion Questions for Case Studies in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance Professor Edward H. Chow Spring 2013 1. (2/20) Introduction and get acquainted: Entrepreneurship and finance Lecture and discussion: A perspective on Entrepreneurship‚ Howard H. Stevenson‚ 1988 (9-384-131) How is finance related to corporate objectives? Note on the financial perspective: What should entrepreneurs know? William A. Sahlman‚ Harvard Business Publishing (9-293-045) In your view‚ what
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Innovative Ideas 3. Obtaining investors 4. Company leadership 5. Decision making Section B: Lessons Learned 1. Importance of a good Elevator Pitch – While persistence and ingenuity were also important factors in getting Savage Beast’s initial investment‚ the investor decided to invest after only ten minutes. This implies that Savage Beast had a strong elevator pitch that was both informative enough and interesting enough to hook an investor. 2. Defined roles – When everybody know what their role
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Set No. 2 III B.Tech II Semester Examinations‚December 2010 FLIGHT MECHANICS - II Aeronautical Engineering Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. Explain the phenomenon of releasing the elevator and its effect on longitudinal stability of an airplane. [16] 2. (a) Explain the term mechanical gearing in the case of directional stability (b) Derive the expression for the rate of change of pedal force with yaw angle in terms of Rudder
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Introduction Reflecting on workplace experiences —the challenges and successes—can be a particularly useful thing to do. It helps to think about the realities of your working environments‚ what you do well and what you can improve upon and why. This reflection helps you identify areas for personal development. For this reason‚ reflective practice often is considered to be an essential component of successful work experience. It is also very important for people who are learning new professional roles
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CASE STUDY: Merger of Zipcar and Avis Budget Group On January 2‚ 2013‚ Zipcar announced that it would be acquired by the Avis Budget Group. This merger may let staff members of both companies to feel uncertain and uncomfortable‚ especially of Zipcar and they feared that company was swallowed. Motivational problems related with finance were of major importance to employees of both companies and here too. The senior management and executive members of Zipcar company sought to gather and discuss
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way people in metropolitan cities around the world commute‚ go shopping‚ take weekend vacations and travel to business meetings. She founded Zipcar in June of 2000‚ a company that utilizes the idea of car sharing‚ where a group of registered members can utilize a community-based pool of vehicles of every size and caliber ( Time’s Most Influential People). Zipcar has become the largest carsharing company in the world. Soon after her first successful company launched‚ she realized the need for more real
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