Billy Ka KEung Chan2011970509PMBA6028 – Business Networking | | Case Study 1 – Heidi Roizen Heidi Roizen began her career working for Tandem computers as an editor of the company newsletter. Her first real exposure to the benefits of professional networking occurred when she applied for the position. Her friend in the company had the contact of the woman in charge of the hiring process and with Heidi’s out-going personality decided to phone the contact on a Saturday expecting to get her voicemail
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Athleta The key issue facing Scott Kerslake is how to raise $3 million - $4 million in a Series E round of financing for Athleta. His goal is to raise this capital from investors who understand and appreciate Athleta’s business model and culture. A secondary issue‚ largely dependent the amount of capital raised‚ is whether Athleta should launch physical retail outlets in 2003. Kerslake and Joe Teno should raise the Series E round of financing from angels or individual investors. If necessary‚
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company‚ as sellers would show desire in working with the team and investors would be confident in investing in the firm. The relationship with Sequoia Capital was also a huge strength for the firm as Sequoia was one of the top venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and it would add a lot of credibility for Francisco Partners. The Sequoia Capital relationship will also give
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2000 (DIP Guidelines). Put briefly‚ anchor investors are the investors who shall be offered‚ and subscribed to the securities in a book building offer before the offer is open to the public. The concept continued with the enactment of SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations‚ 2009 (ICDR) which replaced DIP Guidelines in August 2009‚ to governs the public offering in India. As defined in the ICDR‚ “anchor investor" means a qualified institutional buyer (“QIB”) an application
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2.1 MARKET OPPORTUNITY - GENICON’S EFFECTIVENESS i) Marketing Currently GENICON has not invested in marketing and has no set marketing plan. Given the nature of the industry advertising campaigns to the public are not necessary‚ as laparoscopic surgeries are not something everyone requires. They can‚ however‚ invest in marketing to surgeons and the medical community in new markets to relay the benefits of laparoscopic procedures over open surgery and highlight GENICON’s products. ii) Communication
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Summary of the Book Start up Nation The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle Written by Dan Senor and Saul Singer Part 1 Introduction The first chapter relates the story of Shimon Peres and Shai Agassi pitching Better Place to auto manufacturers – Better Place is re-thinking electric vehicles by making fuel stations swap out your battery with a charged one instead of pumping petrol or diesel into the car‚ highly ambitious‚ executed first in Israel‚ now in China‚ etc. Persistence This chapter
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Virtual Organization Strategy Paper Companies have numerous options when determining how to meet their capital needs or when faced with a lucrative opportunity for expansion. Businesses must decide whether offering an initial public offering of stock‚ merging with another business‚ or acquiring another company presents the best option. Each method possesses
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Case 3 Guilty as Charged [pic] 1. Perform a SWOT Analysis for Gilt Groupe. 2. Looking at your SWOT‚ what is the single greatest threat facing GG? How would you react to this challenge? What strategy would you follow or propose? 3. Looking at your SWOT‚ what is the single greatest opportunity facing GG? How would you go about taking advantage of this opportunity? What strategy would you follow or propose? 4. Five years from now‚ where do you see GG? A success? A failure
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“Developing and Managing a Tourism Enterprise” Marta Fernandez Student Number: 2139226 uwqfh Unit Number/Code: D20131 [pic] [pic] Table of Contents Page 1. Introduction 3 1.1 New Tourism Enterprise Descripion and Plan 2. Survey
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description and thus began a decade long career of networking. After Tandem Roizen went to get her MBA and then partnered with her brother to launch a company that sold spreadsheet software he developed. T-Maker did not have excessive amounts of capital like some of its competitors‚ but Roizen knew that with her outgoing personality and her desire to meet (interesting and smart) people she could make the company successful. While marketing T/Maker she made important relationships with people that
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