Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship April 13, 2015 Professor Murray Lakota Hills Case This essay is in regard to the “Lakota Hill Case,” a story about an entrepreneurial woman named Laura Ryan and her family’s effort at making a profitable business venture out of her home-made Indian fry bread. This essay will identify advantages and possible challenges of developing a specialty food business. It will consider whether or not Lakota Hill’s strategy is the best way to build a specialty food business.
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How Venture Capital Works by Bob Zider Harvard Business Review Reprint 98611 HarvardBusinessReview NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 1998 Reprint Number Michael e. porter CLUSTERS AND THE NEW ECONOMICS OF COMPETITION 98609 daniel golem an WHAT MAKES A LEADER? 98606 carl shapiro and hal r . varia n VERSIONING: THE SMART WAY TO SELL INFORMATION 98610 stewart d. friedm an, perry christensen, and jessica d e gro ot WORK AND LIFE: THE END OF THE ZERO-SUM GAME 98605
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Legal Issues and Pitfalls Task Rabbit (formerly RunMyErrand) is a new venture which is expanding. Use the teaching materials to develop a checklist of what you regard as the most important legal issues and potential pitfalls likely to face the venture and then apply this list to assess the venture's likelihood of success. Jessica Martin Trident University International “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”- Steve Maraboli. Leah
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sunflower utraceuticals n to Sunflower Nutraceuticals, Board of Directors from Teresita Alvarez, CEO re Working Capital Financing Options I wanted to update you on my efforts to secure an increased line of credit for working capital. Despite my repeated efforts and the calls that both of you have made to our bank’s senior officers, Miami Dade Merchant’s Bank (MDM) continues to be inflexible. It refuses to increase our $3.2 million line of credit and says that it will not change its
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Harvard Business School 9-899-062 Rev. December 7, 1998 Walnut Venture Associates (A): RBS Group Investment Memorandum Ralph Wagner pulled his file on the RBS Group, a young company that developed and sold accounting software specifically targeted to software companies. Wagner was a private investor—an “angel”—and a member of an informal group of other investors known as Walnut Venture Associates. (See Exhibit 1 for background information on Walnut) RBS was seeking to raise $2 million
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Working Capital Management FIN/571 Introduction Managing working capital is a critical success factor for all companies no matter the shape and size. This is especially critical for the longevity of a small business operation whose cash conversion cycle and current ratios is key to the success and life of the business. So when Alan Litchman and Laura Trust left the corporate world to buy Finagle-a-Bagel, they were able to take key lessons that they learned in managing working capital (Wiley
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explain why you chose these particular synonyms. EXAMPLE: However, in a year that saw the social networking juggernaut Facebook turn a profit for only the first time, it was not clear whether Twitter could achieve financial independence from its venture capital investors. Synonym = powerhouse Explanation: I chose the word powerhouse, because the original word, "juggernaut" indicates that that Facebook forcefully took over the social networking industry. I wanted to use a word to indicate powerful
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the home of a venture capitalist. She had experienced a life-changing revelation after stepping into the venture capitalist’s vault-size closet. The interior of the venture capitalist’s closet is luxurious and super organized like the “exhibits at a costume museum” described by Tan. And She made a smug assessment like a psychiatrist that the owner of the vault-size closet is obsessive compulsive sprang to mind and is inflexible to allow any wrinkles in her life. After judging the venture capitalist’s
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MBA Program Course: Financial Analysis and Decision Making MBA730 Instructor: Marlena L. Akhbari Wright State University Finance and Financial Services McGraw-Hill/Irwin =>? McGraw−Hill Primis ISBN: 0−390−42334−3 Text: Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation, 4/e Bruner This book was printed on recycled paper. MBA Program http://www.mhhe.com/primis/online/ Copyright ©2003 by The McGraw−Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States
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Virtual Organization Strategy FIN/370 Virtual Organization Strategy Berry’s Bug Blasters is a privately held business and wants to expand its operations. The business is considering three options for
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