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Just a few years ago, becoming an entrepreneur was pretty simple. All you needed was some idea--any idea--a little experience, and venture capital funds...
41 results for "Walter Kuemmerle"
Just a few years ago, becoming an entrepreneur was pretty simple. All you needed was some idea--any idea--a little experience, and venture capital funds...
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Provides an introduction to depositary receipts. Recently, these instruments have been used with increasing frequency by firms seeking to list their shares...
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Describes the execution of a new economy merger. Officenet, a bricks-and-clicks retailer of office supplies, is sold to an Internet pure-play, Submarino.com....
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Describes Promise, the third-largest consumer finance company in Japan. Promise was created in 1963 by an entrepreneur and has grown rapidly, especially...
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Why do some entrepreneurial enterprises and business ideas thrive in some countries but not in others? Context, says the author, is key. Drawing on research...
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Describes two aspiring entrepreneurs who have just received offering documents for venture funding (known as term sheets) from two venture capital firms....
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Describes Mandic BBS, one of Brazil's first Internet service providers. In April 1998, with competition increasing, its venture capitalist financier is...
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Describes Gray Security Services, an entrepreneurial South African firm that has recently gone through a financial restructuring with the help of Brait...
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This is an MIT Sloan Management Review article. Most start-up companies today consider overseas expansion from their inception. Yet, says the author,...
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Introduces Khalid Awan, co-founder of TCS, an entrepreneurial air-express company in Pakistan. Awan has succeeded in building a sizeable company despite...
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Describes TixToGo, a Silicon Valley start-up company that offers online solutions to individuals and organizations that want to offer activities and/or...
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International Entrepreneurial Finance is the study of allocation of scarce resources by and to entrepreneurs in international settings. This note provides...
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Describes Singulus, the compact disk metallizer business of Leybold AG, a large German company, which has been put up for sale. In April 1995, buyout...
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Describes @Hoc, an idea for an Internet software company, developed by two HBS MBA 1999 graduates, Guy Miasnik and Ly Tran. @Hoc's software, loaded into...
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Describes the creation of the first private equity fund in Nigeria and the fund's potential first investment in GS Telecom, a Nigerian telecommunication...