Financial Entrepreneurship Case Studies
There are 4 cases assigned for reading and written evaluation purposes.There are gonna be 4 case reads uploaded in the attached files. Each case has assigned questions to which you should respond. Consider these questions a guide to what you wish to say about the case. Each written written response must be professionally presented and should be considered an “evaluation” of the case as you see it. Please answer all questions concisely and accurately on no more than 2 pages, around 1 page.
Case #1
Feed Resources Recovery
1.What is your assessment of the business for the short and long term? Please be specific
and state your reasoning.
2.Please give 3 reasons as to why venture capitalists are interested in the overall sector.
3.If you were a venture capitalist, would you invest now in Feed? Why or Why Not? What
would you change your mind?
4.Whom should Shane and Ryan approach for financing and how would you prioritize the
order between family & friends, angels, the government, customers, and others you can think of?
Case #2
PunchTab
1.Now that he is raising capital for his second business, how is Kamara’s situation different
now versus when he was starting YousendIt? What are the three primary reasons?2.Please name three qualities that would make an ideal angel investor for PunchTab?3.Why does Sturiale say that deal terms (e.g., valuation, % ownership) are irrelevant? Is that
what determines how wealthy an entrepreneur will be? What is meant with that statement?4.What should Kamaran do? (1) Raise seed with VC; (2) Raise with angels; or (3) Skip seed
investment and raise Series A?
Case #3
How Much and From Whom?
1. How much capital should be raised over the next 5-year period?
2. What are the funding sources to be targeted and amounts to be requested from each during the 5-year period.
3. What is the selling proposition (i.e. the investment thesis) for each round.
Case #4
Next Generation Middle School
1. What is the point of this case?
2. List the 3 major challenges facing Leschly and Schleck.
3. Was there knowledge of finance and willingness to take risk demonstrated? If so describe.
