Capitalists: Trendsetter Inc. TEACHING ENTREPRENEURIAL THOUGHT & ACTION 20 March 2012 Richard T. Bliss‚ PhD Trendsetter Inc. Learning Objectives 1. The entrepreneur/VC relationship 2. Exposure to deal term sheets 3. Moving beyond valuation 4. VC negotiations 2 The Entrepreneur/VC Relationship Entrepreneur VC 3 The Entrepreneur/VC Relationship • Provisions to address adverse selection − due diligence − staging/milestones − use of convertible preferred shares • Provisions to facilitate
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Discount & Hawkins Negotiations 1. What are your goals for this upcoming meeting – what would constitute a successful outcome for you? The goal for the upcoming meeting is to have a win/win solution to the problem presented by clause 22 on the lease contract as presented by Discount to Hawkins. While there are certainly reasons for Hawkins to have concerns‚ there should be a way to allay those concerns. 2. How would you rate your bargaining “power” - high‚ medium‚ low? Is there anything you can
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Interests: The Measure o f Negotiation D a v i d A. L a x arid J a m e s K. Sebenius People negotiate to further their interests. And negotiation advisers urge attention to interests--often solemnly‚ as if the suggestion were original and surprising. Yet Socrates ’ admonition to " K n o w Thyself" surety scoops any late twentieth century advice of this sort. So‚ academic compulsiveness aside‚ w h y write an article o n interests or‚ more to the point‚ w h y read one? The answer‚ in part‚ is that
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Negotiation Styles - Similarities and Differences between American and Japanese log – ESLSCA D39 Islam Helal‚ Alaa Allam‚ Magdy Ahmad‚ Mostafa El Showeikh‚ Ahmad Samir Abstract This log discusses similarities and differences in negotiation styles between Americans and Japanese based on the results of questionnaires administered to 96 students in the United States and 102 students in Japan. Both in negotiations with a family member or a friend and in a business context‚ universal factors and those
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calling de Winter in for a negotiation? Is there any downside to having run the negotiation this way? Conquip sent the RFQ possibly attempting to anchor the negotiation and to prove its strong position towards the negotiation. This strategy is risky and could be harmful if the other party doesn’t have this value between its reservation and target price‚ thus‚ if this value is out of the Zone Of Possible Agreement (ZOPA); as it could mean an end to the negotiation‚ maybe leaving “money on the
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| Role of Seller‚ General Sales Manager‚ POP Productions | Mark Peterson W00927582 | Preparation In preparing for my Oceania negotiation I had to prepare myself to take on the role of the general sales manager for POP Productions. In doing so I read the role of the general sales manager and all the information that would be influencing and guiding my negotiation with the general manager of Windy City Theater about bringing in my Polynesian musical called Oceania. I read and analyzed this information
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Some people handle cross-cultural negotiations better than others; we want to know how Cultural Intelligence influences The Business Negotiation Process. To find out how Cultural Intelligence influences The Business Negotiation Process we choose to conduct qualitative interviews with a few Swedish companies that have experiences of cross-cultural negotiations with China. The findings indicate that Cultural Intelligence influences The Business Negotiation Process by different factors such as
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Characterized by multiple parties with interdependent goals‚ the negotiation process can involve a number of strategies and tactics that help parties maximize their outcomes. Some of the most useful and versatile of these strategies are forms of persuasion. Persuasion aims to change the behavior‚ attitudes‚ or beliefs of another party in some way for the benefit of the persuader‚ but how can one effectively use such a strategy in a negotiation scenario? Persuasion is an activity made necessary by the fact
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Hidden Challenges of Cross Border Negotiation Sebenius in this article explicates his business experiences and offers pragmatic advice on how to foresee and overcome barriers to a successful cross-border negotiation. James Sebenius‚ in giving view of his experiences‚ explains that it would not be of one choice to make the error of presenting a feasible Saudi Arabian client with one profitable kind of offer done up in pigskin binder‚ as this is thought about nefarious and bad by lots of Muslims
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Miami School District Negotiation Paper November 2‚ 2012 Brittany Miller MGT 445 Dr. Christina Aleksic Miami School District Negotiation Paper The Miami school district has recently experienced a large number of enrollments and needs to come up with a plan to solve the increase in student population. The school districts solution involves rezoning school boundaries to even out classroom size. Parents have concerns about the restructuring
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