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Aqueduct Medical
English , Spanish
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Reference: E-92-E
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Year: 2005
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Number of pages: 19
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Geographic Setting: Estados Unidos
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Publication Date: Dec 1, 2005
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Fecha de edición: Mar 15, 2016
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Source: IESE (España)
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Type of Document: Case
Description
Aqueduct is a start up designing and manufacture a medical device to apply cold temperature after esthetic or traumatic surgery. Two MBAs from MIT and IESE and the team they put together are going through initial steps of the venture through medical trials. In parallel they need to raise the funding the company. Different funding for alternatives are evaluated. The location of Aqueduct Medical is San Francisco and the venture is addressed primarily to the US market.
Learning Objective
Issues considered are:
- Technological evaluation
- Regulations
- Negotiations with different sources of funding
- Team building
- Marketing and sales of innovative products