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Pathfinder Capital
Sahlman, William A.; Janower, AndrewCase HBS-396067-EEntrepreneurshipTwo former consultants have raised a search fund and are looking for a company to buy and run. After eight months of looking at deals, they have just signed a letter of intent to buy the second largest book retail chain in Canada in a turnaround situation. They must now decide whether to go through with the deal and, if so, how to raise the necessary financing.Starting at €8.20
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Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-809004-EFinanceBy 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a new fund that focused on later-stage investments?...Starting at €8.20
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Foro Energy (A)
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; McQuade, JamesCase HBS-812136-EEntrepreneurshipForo Energy developed proprietary and patent-pending fiber-laser technologies that could disrupt existing processes and services for the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. These breakthrough laser technologies were protected by a strong intellectual property (IP) portfolio, which provided Foro with the flexibility to pursue a number of different business models. The market potential for oilfield applications was large, as global s...Starting at €8.20
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TerraPower
Sahlman, William A.; Nanda, Ramana; Lassiter, Joseph B.; McQuade, JamesCase HBS-813108-EEntrepreneurshipJohn Gilleland, CEO of TerraPower, returned to his office after a lengthy meeting with potential investors. It was October 2012, and TerraPower was in the process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear reactor. Though early in the fundraising process, Gilleland noted that this most recent conversation was similar to conversations with other interested cleantech growth equity investors. ...Starting at €8.20
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A Simple Free Cash Flow Valuation Model
Sahlman, William A.Case HBS-814027-EFinanceExplores some of the issues involved in valuing cash flow streams. A simple model is presented that reveals the effect on value of changing assumptions about the appropriate discount rate, the level of profitability, the growth rate of sales, the asset intensity ratio, and the leverage ratio. Helps students address some of the following issues: 1) What is the definition of cash flow? 2) What effects do changes in the discount rate have on valuati...Starting at €8.20
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Starship SpaceX: The Disruption in the Space Value Chain
Jané, Joan; Guitard, BlancaCase OIT-11-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSpaceX was established in 2002 to fulfill founder, CEO and chief engineer Ellon Musk's heady plan to colonize Mars. Starship aimed to be a "Mars colonial transporter" or, more formally, an "interplanetary transport system" both in ease of access and affordability, and designed to be "aircraft-like" from the specification and operational standpoints to maximize the vehicle's utilization rate of launching kilotons of payloads into orbit per year. S...Starting at €8.20
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Oasys Water: Balancing Strategic Partnerships & Financing Decisions
Nanda, Ramana; Sahlman, William A.; Misra, SidCase HBS-815076-EEntrepreneurshipOasys Water had developed a proprietary water treatment technology based on an innovative forward osmosis process that could remove dissolved solids from water more effectively and efficiently than existing technologies. As Oasys looked to scale, it was exploring partnerships with various incumbent firms-the most serious were with a set of international oil and gas production companies (IOCs); a global oil and gas (O&G) services provider called N...Starting at €8.20
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La cadena de suministro de NIKE en la nueva era digital
Jané, Joan; Ferrinha, PedroCase P-1199Service and Operations ManagementPese a su éxito en las operaciones de la cadena de suministro a través de los canales mayorista y minorista físico, NIKE quiere rediseñar la estrategia de su red logística para alcanzar el crecimiento esperado de los ingresos digitales. Un nuevo programa llamado NIKE Digital First Supply Chain aspira a preparar y entregar los pedidos a los clientes online directos en un plazo de dos días en toda Europa. Carlos Bermejo, director sénior de Programa...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon y mybabyallergy.com: Decisiones de e-commerce para una start-up
Jané, JoanCase P-1172Decision Analysis, Marketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyLa entrada en Amazon suele actuar como un auténtico revulsivo para el negocio de cualquier empresa, ya que las ventas tienden a dispararse. Pero también es verdad que implica contrapartidas que no se pueden pasar por alto. Amazon, líder indiscutible en la venta online de todo tipo de productos, se ha convertido en una plataforma única para el posicionamiento y el desarrollo comercial de miles de compañías. Especialmente, para las de menor tamaño,...Starting at €8.20
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WebTracker (Spanish version)
Sahlman, William A.; Roberts, Michael J.Case HBS-917S02EntrepreneurshipThis case describes the evolution of a tech startup, WebTracker, and focuses on the decision of two aspiring entrepreneurs (Julie Stern and Mark Foster) who have just received offers for Venture Capital (VC) financing for the company. These offers, or term sheets, are similar in some respects and different in others. The two firms offering financing are also different. The heart of the case involves comparing these term sheets and determining the...Starting at €8.20