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Jim Jonassen: Executive Matchmaker
Jim Jonassen is the founder and Managing Partner of Jim Jonassen and Associates, a business that provides key revenue solutions to Venture backed and growing companies. Jonassen talks about what kinds of clients he looks for and the types of challenges he solves in his unique field.
Tags: Matchmaker, Jim Jonassen, Jim Jonassen and Associates, key, revenue, solutions, Venture, backed, companies, challenges, Managing Partner
Videos 2008-04-24
Fouad ElNaggar: Investing in Transformational Companies
Fouad ElNaggar is a Principal with Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in high-tech start-ups, which have included Netflix, Tivo and Juniper Networks. ElNaggar talks about what kinds of companies he seeks to help and the misconceptions of venture capitalists.
Tags: Redpoint Ventures, Fouad ElNaggar, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, venture, capital, firm, high-tech, start-ups, Netflix, Tivo, Juniper Networks, misconceptions
Videos 2008-04-18
How They Did It: Seven Intrapreneur Success Stories
Seven successful intrapreneurs reveal what it took to launch new ventures at Kodak, Toyota, Yahoo, and other major companies. .logoimg { float:right; border:1px solid #eee; padding:4px; background:#fff;} Kodak Intrapreneur:...
Tags: Corporate Entrepreneurship, BNET Feature, Team, Intrapreneurship, Intrapreneurs, Georgia Flight, Management, Team Management, Jim Lynch, Weiner, Lessons Learned, Venture, Idea, Eastman Kodak Co., Inkjet Printer, Marketing, Gateway Inc.
Articles 2008-04-10
The Founder's Dilemma
The Idea in Brief Most entrepreneurs want to make pots of money and run the show. But Wasserman reveals that it's tough to do both. If you don't figure out which matters most to you, you could...
Tags: In Brief, Harvard Business Review, Noam Wasserman, Financing Startups, Finance, Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Venture, Entrepreneur, Business, Investor, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Articles 2008-04-01
Bill Robinson: Democratic Advertising
Bill Robinson has launched a production venture that combines user-generated new media with television. Saysme.tv allows users to sponsor political ads for air in their local markets at a competitive cost. Robinson discusses his new venture and the de-localization of advertising and entertainment.
Tags: politics, television, new media, advertising, Bill Robinson, Saysme.tv, sayeme.tv, Venture, Advertisement, commercials
Videos 2008-03-08
Approaching Business Angels
A "business angel," also known as an "angel investor," is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business, typically an equity investment. Angels rarely make loans or outright grants. Business angels most often support individual entrepreneurs and brand-new ventures, although they can assist any venture in need. The term...
Tags: Literature, Business, BNET Editorial, Business Structures, Venture, Appellation, Management, Finance, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Business Angel, Compatibility, Angel, accountant, venture capital, equity investment, medical device, partnership, equity, financial, financing, bank, stock, Internet
Articles 2007-10-10
A Methodology and Model for Assessing Entrepreneurial Ventures
Evidence suggests that small firms benefit from business planning as new ventures are assessed and started. Yet relatively few make use of business planning, or go about such planning in an inconsistent way that invites errors and omissions. This paper presents a systemized web-based venture planning model that provides opportunities...
Tags: Venture, Entrepreneurial, Operational Planning, Entrepreneurship, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2005-06-25
The Costs Of Grandstanding Behavior In Newly Established IPO Markets
The grandstanding theory posits that young Venture Capital firms VCs will seek to build their reputations by taking ventures public early. This paper examines this theory in the Japanese IPO Initial Public Offering market. The authors found that young lead VC-backed ventures go public at a younger age than mature...
Tags: Venture, University Of Saskatchewan, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2005-01-18
Corporate Control and New Corporate Venture Manager Power
Strategy research has centered on the importance of top management to organizational success. However to date, little has been written of the role of new corporate venture managerial power. This paper first outlines the controls that corporations place on new ventures and discuss how they can diminish the opportunity seeking...
Tags: Venture, University Of Texas, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-12-16
Product Lifecycle Management: Expediting Product Innovation
An entrepreneur who decides to undertake a new business venture assumes a certain degree of risk. When that venture includes creating a new product, the risk is even higher and the task of selling that innovative product becomes an exercise in education, significantly lengthening the sales cycle. Any company needs...
Tags: Innovation, Venture, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Technology Evaluation Centers, Product Marketing, Sales Tools, Entrepreneurship, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Management
White papers 2006-10-20
Value Destruction In Joint Ventures?
This paper explores a striking empirical pattern that has gone unnoticed in the literature: U.S. multinationals' joint ventures abroad are substantially and systematically less profitable than their wholly owned ventures. This pattern is found across many
Tags: Venture
White papers 2003-07-27
The 'How To' Of Raising Capital For Your First Venture
So, you have chosen to be an entrepreneur and you have done your homework to choose the line of business in which you have your core competency. Now comes the investment part in the line up of activities. The key question is how much capital is required, how you will...
Tags: Venture, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Energy Roundup: Conduit Wins Peru Gas Concession, Solyndra Gets $600 Million, Drop in Solar Prices, and More
Conduit Capital wins $1.4 billion concession to build 700 mile Peruvian gas pipeline -- The private equity investment firm, Conduit Capital Partners has announced that subsidiary, Kuntur Transportadora de Gas, was awarded a 30-year concession contract by the Peruvian Government to build a 700 mile pipeline to carry natural...
Tags: Venture, Solar Panel, Concession, Solyndra, Sales Strategy, Sales, Michael Mattis
Blog posts 2008-10-08
CACI International Inc. F1Q09 (Qtr End 09/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator instructions We'll have our first question from Brian Gesuale, Raymond James. Brian Gesuale – Raymond James Hey, guys, great job on the quarter. Paul Cofoni Thanks. Bill Fairl Thank you, Brian. Brian Gesuale – Raymond James Paul, I wonder if you could...
Tags: Venture, Valuation, Board, Call Transcript, Earnings, CACI International Inc., Buyback, Corporate Governance, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-10-29
Northwest Airlines Corporation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from the line of William Greene from Morgan Stanley. William Greene – Morgan Stanley Doug, I’m wondering if you could talk a little bit about the ATI opportunity with the joint venture because you guys have...
Tags: Venture, Call Transcript, Northwest Airlines Corp., Earnings, ATI Technologies Inc., Morgan Stanley, Benefits, Free Trade, Human Resources, Finance, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-04-23
Cogdell Spencer Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. Operator Instructions Our first question will come from Rich Anderson from BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Richard C. Anderson - BMO Capital Markets Corp. Hi, good morning everybody. Frank Spencer Morning Rich. Richard C. Anderson - BMO Capital Markets Corp. Just...
Tags: Venture, Guidance, Physician, Call Transcript, Earnings, Cogdell Spencer Inc., Northwestern, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-11-07
Brandywine Realty Trust Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from Michael Dillerman with Citi. Michael Dillerman Good morning in front of me as well. I assume we both have one question each for both on the line. Lets talk about the joint venture on center I mean, how did –...
Tags: Venture, Call Transcript, Earnings, Brandywine Realty Trust, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-11-06
New Publishing Entreprenuer: Rick Warren
Rick Warren, powerful evangelist, Obama inaugural ceremony prayer-giver and author of the best selling "Purpose Driven Life," is launching "Purpose Driven Connection," a quarterly magazine for the evangelical community, reports the Wall Street Journal. In some respects, the venture represents a sweet spot for publishers, who often...
Tags: Venture, Advertisement, Reader, Branding, Marketing, Dog &, Pony Editor, Pony Editor
Blog posts 2009-01-27
Hill International, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Arnie Ursaner with CJS Securities. Arnie Ursaner - CJS Securities I think you said very little about your JVs. Could you expand a little bit about what is the status and what we should expect on a go-forward...
Tags: Venture, Call Transcript, Earnings, Hill International Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-11-25
Ten Ways Start-Ups Use Venture Leases and Loans to Generate Millions
The rise of venture leasing and lending has created an opportunity for sophisticated entrepreneurs to gain a competitive advantage. Savvy entrepreneurs are using venture leases and loans to generate millions of dollars for shareholders by leveraging existing venture capital. They have discovered ways to use this flexible financing as a...
Tags: Venture, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Capital Structures, Venture Capital, Investment, Management, Finance, Financing Startups
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