My last post from the Entrepreneurial Finance course is here. Today, I want to share my summary of the Horizon Communications Corporation (A) case study. This document basically shows the industry background of telecommunication in the 90′s. Basically, it highlights the Telecommunications Act of 1996 … Read More →
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Entrepreneurial Finance – Centex Telemanagement, Inc.
I’ve started studying the Entrepreneurial Finance at MIT OpenCourseWare by myself a month ago. I wrote my first post about the first case study here (Technical Data Corporation Business Plan). Until now, I think the selection of the case studies are awesome. It presents many … Read More →
An Unlikely Marriage: Koenigsegg and Saab
I’ve been following many news related to the GM’s sale of Saab to Koenigsegg and I’m very curious about the outcome of this situation. I searched Google to see if there was any news of small companies buying big companies and I couldn’t find any … Read More →
New Funds Target Early Stage Startups
Summary: The number of new funds focused on bankrolling early-stage startups appears to be growing. Data from The Deal and other sources that focus on venture capital concluded that in the last six weeks that about $1.2 billion has been raised by firms for dedicated … Read More →
Kauffman Foundation says “U.S. Venture Capital Industry Must Shrink”
A new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Right-Sizing the U.S. Venture Capital Industry, states that venture capital industry’s return is under performing because of the current size of the industry. It says that by reducing the it, this industry may increase its return. … Read More →
Twitter’s founder: Evan Williams
I became aware of Evan Williams from Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. He had a great and very interesting story about how he founded Blogger and all the hardship he had with it. I think one of the most interesting point is … Read More →