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Tech Entrepreneurship: An Experiential Journey, Punit Arora Jan 2019

Tech Entrepreneurship: An Experiential Journey, Punit Arora

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This course uses Lean Launchpad for creating entrepreneurial ventures that start small but can be scaled up fairly quickly. You should you take this class only IF you are interested in creating such ventures. This course provides real world, hands-on learning on what it’s like to actually start a high-tech company. This class is not about how to write a business plan. It’s not an exercise on how smart you arein a classroom, or how well you use the research library to size markets. This is a practical class – essentially a lab, not a theory or “book” …


Apple Inc.: Product Portfolio Analysis, Michael Mallin, Todd A. Finkle Dec 2010

Apple Inc.: Product Portfolio Analysis, Michael Mallin, Todd A. Finkle

Todd A Finkle

This case assesses a company’s product line mix relative to two marketing environmental factors and explores four product line growth strategies using a product portfolio analysis approach. The case provides a history of the Apple Computer Company and its key product lines. An approach to analyzing a company’s product portfolio is reviewed and applied to Apple’s product lines. The case shows how each Apple product line fits within the portfolio analysis tool and will be asked questions relative to possible strategies for Apple’s product portfolio. The case illustrates one approach to making decisions about a company’s line of products. The …


A Comparative Analysis Of The Performance Of Emerging Versus Nonemerging Industry Initial Public Offerings, Todd A. Finkle, Reinhold Lamb Dec 2001

A Comparative Analysis Of The Performance Of Emerging Versus Nonemerging Industry Initial Public Offerings, Todd A. Finkle, Reinhold Lamb

Todd A Finkle

This study fills a gap in previous research by investigating differences between the short and long run aftermarket performance in a sample of emerging versus non-emerging industries. Utilizing the entire population of biotechnology, semiconductor, and Internet IPOs from 1993-1996 as a representative sample of emerging industries, this study found that emerging firms were significantly underpriced compared to a set of non-emerging IPOs.


Impact Of E-Commerce On Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses: Opportunities, Challenges, And Strategies, Todd A. Finkle Dec 1999

Impact Of E-Commerce On Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses: Opportunities, Challenges, And Strategies, Todd A. Finkle

Todd A Finkle

Small businesses and entrepreneurs are rushing to the Internet to do business and reach new markets. While e-commerce is used for advertising, business-to-consumer and business-to-business transactions, small businesses and entrepreneurs encounter several challenges. This paper examines both the opportunities and challenges that are posed by the use of e-commerce and makes recommendations to small businesses and entrepreneurs so they can overcome the challenges and exploit the opportunities presented by e-commerce.


An Examination Of Initial Public Offerings In The “High Flying” Internet Industry, Todd A. Finkle, Dan French Dec 1997

An Examination Of Initial Public Offerings In The “High Flying” Internet Industry, Todd A. Finkle, Dan French

Todd A Finkle

This study examines the underpricing and aftermarket performance of the emerging industry of biotechnology. Findings indicate that the average first day return for the biotech firms was 1.8 and 1.6 percent. Furthermore, the biotech firms significantly underperformed the NASDAQ (-30.7%) and NYSE (-16.5%) over a two-year period after going public.