Read the chapter from Mark Twain's "Roughing It". Link is on the Important Links list at left. Read the University of Chicago "scholarly article". Link is on the Important Links list at left. Be prepared to discuss both these readings in class.
Revise and expand the Enterprise Value spreadsheet. Revise by correcting per share amounts and using a spreadsheet to calculate values. Expand by adding values for Google, Starbucks, and Under Armour and by adding the age of the founding entrepreneur at time of IPO and at the initial founding of the company. Links to the IPO documents of these companies are at left under the Important Links list. You can get the Enterprise Valuation Comparison spreadsheet format by clicking here. Link your spreadsheet to your blog so I can comment, then place a link back to your blog below.
Create a first year budget for your company idea. The budget should be for the first 12 months of your start up and include a sales projection based on your target market and all the other expense items from your previous slides. Try to keep to the template we discussed in class and remember, format is important since we're sharing information. Link this spreadsheet to your blog so I can comment, then place a link back to your blog below.
Apply "the Secret of Socrates" from HTWFAIP in an attempt to persuade at least one person to your way of thinking and write about this in your blog and link this back to this course blog. Continue to make friends with your journalist using HTWFAIP and Mark Twain's Advice. Write about your progress and link this back to this course blog. Apply all the principles of HTWFAIP in your social interactions. Pick the social interaction that had the best results, write about this in your blog then place a link back to your blog below.
Review the Angel Investing, Venture Capital Investing, and US Government Small Business assistance websites. These links are on the Important Links list at left. Be prepared to discuss both this in class.
There is no class on Monday, March 16th due to UMBC Sping Break. These assignments are due Monday, March 23rd at 12 Noon. Please link all assignments for Class #7 in the comments area below. If you have revised a previous assignment to improve a grade, please place all prior and current assignment links together in the comments area below. Please link to your specific assignment in each link, NOT to your entire blog.
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I have a question, Professor, do you still want us to make comparisons between the enterprise values of companies on this assignment? With four companies, which combination do you want us to compare? Comparing every company against every other company seems a bit superfluous.
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Professor, how are you calculating the difference in EV at the current and IPO dates? I have the numbers, but I cant figure out how you are coming up with the percentages...Using the example for Apple how did you get the 137%?
ReplyDeleteI didn't get any comments or grades on my corrections that I made for the last class that we had, so I am completely clueless for what I need to work on and improve upon for whats due tmw. Especially when it comes to my slide.
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Emily: I think you're looking at the comparison of current EV from Microsoft to Apple. Since it was difficult to show that for all the companies, it's been changed to comparing the current EV for each company to its IPO EV, then dividing that by the number of years since the IPO. This will give an average annual growth in EV percentage. Hope that explains it.
ReplyDeleteMarquita: I just looked at your blog briefly, so I think that you saw comments on your assignments from several weeks ago since you changed your powerpoint slides in response. However, when you update your assignments you should place the new updates along with your current assignments as links in the comments area that follows the class assignments post. I look forward to seeing those links here in this comments area. See the last paragraph in my "Assignments for Class #7" above.
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ReplyDeleteI had already done that in the comments area when the assignments were due, but i'll do it again for the revised assignments, but I was also talking about previous assignments that I put links up for when they were due, like the 10 social interactions assignment and the blog traffic assignment. I have no comments on any of these assignments
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Professor, I'm not sure if I can make it to class today. I came down with something over the break, so most likely I won't make it to class. However, I will try to came though.
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Jonathan:
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that. Please don't come if you think you have something contagious.
Cheers,
Professor
I believe I have fixed the problem and my spreadsheets should be viewable now. Here are the links again:
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