November 2008
3 posts
Raising Capital, Doing Deals: Building a Business...
Today, I attended a Building a Business lecture by Paul Fisher of Advent Ventures (who blogs at www.thecoffeeshopsofmayfair.com) on raising capital, which was the last Building a Business lecture before the Christmas break. As always, here are the lecturer’s slides:
VC is good for some firms and bad for others
success e.g. Skype
highly disruptive business.
binary proposition
...
Negotiating Skills: Building a Business Lecture 3
Tonight I attended the third lecture of the Building a Business Series, this time on negotiating skills given by Owen Darbishire, the Rhodes Trust University Lecturer in Management Studies at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. I’ve typed up my notes and posted them here, which you can use in addition to the lecturer’s slides:
Bidding
Escalation of commitment: people...
Taking the First Steps, Company Basics: Building a...
Today, I attended the first of the “Building a Business” lecture course at the Said Business School, which was given by Tom Hockaday, the managing director of Isis Innovation Ltd. His talk was titled “Taking the First Steps, Company Basic”. These are my notes (the lecturer’s slides are here):
A Company
Legal Entity
Defines things like liability,
Has a set of documents...