Equity Offerings Case: Netscape Initial Public Offering (HBS 9-296-088) Case Questions: Please use the excel sheet I prepared and uploaded on the Blackboard. I inserted already the assumption for your convenience. 1. Why has Netscape been successful to date? What is its strategy? How risky is its current competitive situation? 2. Value Netscape. Use the following assumptions: a. Total cost of revenues stays at 10.4% of total revenues. b. R&D stays at 36.8% of total revenues. c. Other operating expenses
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Yahoo! 1995 Would you invest in Yahoo! at this point? If you were Yahoo!’s management team, which financing option would you take? I would definitely invest in Yahoo! at that point. I would choose Sequoia Capital. What makes Yahoo! a true opportunity and not just a good idea? What is the vision and value of Yahoo!? At that time, the use of Internet increased rapidly and it was estimated that by 2000, 40% of homes and 70% of all businesses in the U.S. would have access to the Internet. The
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Evolution of Knowledge Management toward Enterprise Decision Support: The Case of KPMG Daniel E. O’Leary Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Realizing that knowledge and its proper management are essential for effective decision support, this chapter traces the evolution of knowledge management within a major professional services firm – KPMG. By supporting decision making, computer-based systems for managing knowledge can impact organizational
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Business Model of Amazon.com http://www.indiainfoline.com/bisc/ford1.html Amazon.com is the pioneering bookstore on the Internet that first opened in July 1995 by Jeff Bezos. The firm offers online shopping services and partnership opportunities such as online search for books, music and video items. The products that they sell include an array of audio, video and book titles. Amazon has one of the widest selections and employs international shipping to virtually every corner of the globe in just
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market to provide web browsers such as Netscape. Another segment in this market is the service providers that provided users access to the Internet such as America Online and CompuServe (p.34). Finally, there are websites that offer web content and information for sale (p.35). These online companies, in order to raise capitalization either approached venture capitalists for financing or offer their stocks to the public. Becker (2006) cited that nature of these IPOs from online companies as “examples
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A–Z OF eBUSINESS MODELS Written and researched by Suntop Media Adobe Systems A Adobe Systems Adobe Systems was founded by John Warnock (now CEO and chairman) and Charles Geschke (president and chairman). Both worked at Xerox’s famous Palo Alto Research Center (Parc). Geschke arrived there via Carnegie Mellon and Xavier University. Warnock took a more circuitous route by way of the Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Computer Sciences, IBM and the University of Utah. Adobe helped ignite
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develop and manage your site’s vast amount of content. Right now, the biggest risk that you guys run is not making a decision. You have to make a decision, because if you don’t someone else is going to run you over. You might get run over by Netscape. You
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship Search Funds: Buying a Business Finding an Idea Find a Team Legal Issues Business Plans Funding Managing and Growing the Venture HBS Entrepreneurs Services for Students Evaluating New Venture Opportunities Conversations with Venture Capitalists What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for
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2 The Entrepreneurial Process "Who can be on entrepreneur you ask? Anyone who wants to experience the deep, dark canyons of uncertainly and ambiguity, and who wonts to walk the breathtaking highlands of success. But caution, do not plan to walk the Iotter until you hove experienced the former" An entrepreneur Results Expected Upon completion of this chapter you will have: l. Developed a definition of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process that spans lifestyle to high potential ventures
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ISSUE MANAGER REPUTATION, UNDERPRICING LONGAND LONG-RUN PERFORMANCE OF INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS: EVIDENCE FROM THE SINGAPORE IPO MARKET VOON PEIJUN (Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons), NUS) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF SCIENCE (BUSINESS) DEPART DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my warmest gratitude to Professor Michael Shih for his patient guidance and encouragement all this
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