Archive for 'People & Teams'
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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Milestone Based Payments - Its The Best Way
How many times have you made payments/investments for promised results which never happened?
Well, I have made that mistake a few times over the last 2 decades, and each time, the learning has improved. And the success rate of deals has also improved.
There are professionals of all types - who will ask for upfront money - […]
Posted: June 5th, 2008 under Business Strategy, Contracts & Legal, Financial Management, M&A, Management, People & Teams, Personal Finance, Venture Capital.
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Business Management in Difficult Times - part 1
Just take a look at the following section - it’s from BBC website on Jan 20, 2002 - when the global economy was severely down, and almost every tech company was losing revenues and market value on a daily basis.
Profits plunge in 2001
Motorola slashes jobs
Infineon chip slump
Dell’s price war
Ericsson shock
Unisys […]
Posted: May 2nd, 2008 under Business Plan, Business Strategy, Financial Management, Management, People & Teams, Sales & Marketing, Startup.
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