Bredbandsbolaget is a broadband provider that started in the midst of the dot-com bubble in the late 90s.

Direct Energie is a highly successful start-up in the French electricity distribution industry, providing electricity to SMEs. Due to its rapid expansion, the company is looking to raise additional funds, weighing its options whether to do so simply in France or also in the UK.

This case provides a unique illustration of how a high-tech European new venture starts-up, grows, burns cash, stumbles, adapts, captures value, disappoints, survives on the verge of bankruptcy to eventually achieve in the fall of 1995 among the most successful IPOs on NASDAQ. On 27 November 1995, L&H received an IPO pricing proposal of H and Q at the low end of the pricing range, after L and

This case teaches the student how to apply economic and NPV analysis to the fundamentals of a B2C transactional e-commerce business. It uses as an application how a new entrant online broker such as Ameritrade attacks incumbent financial service providers in the U.S.

Case analysis and case questions dealing with valuation of an asset management firm and its strategic alternatives within the context of a rapidly evolving mutual fund and pension fund sector.