Archive for 'Business Strategy'
Avalon Pharma Cuts Staff as It Scrambles to Raise Cash
Options for Avalon’s Board
Best Option: Raise debt capital, pledging whatever assets it can, and use that for two purposes:
(a) do the biotech drug development with a strict performance based incremental investment
(b) start a service based revenue stream that can generate some operating cash.
Avalon Board and CXOs have to figure out what services they can offer […]
Posted: August 14th, 2008 under Business Plan, Business Strategy, Financial Management, M&A, Management, People & Teams, Pharma_Biotech, R&D, Venture Capital.
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Capital Structure Decisions for Business Owners
Capital structure is part of fundamental business strategy, and top-level driver for Financial Management. And every business owner/board should have a map for how capital will be obtained for various projects.
Capital structure decides what combination of debt and equity will be used to finance the business projects. And it thereby decides the value basic parameters […]
Posted: July 7th, 2008 under Business Plan, Business Strategy, Financial Management, M&A, Management.
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Deal Analysis: Virgin Mobile acquires Helio
Deal Analysis:
Its always advisable to buy a running business than to build one from scratch — where possible. Virgin has done that in this case.
It would have cost Virgin about $25 million to build/replicate this platform from scratch. Helios has it up and running. $39 is like a 50% premium, and if you consider time […]
Posted: June 27th, 2008 under Business Strategy, M&A, Telecom.
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