StepOne helps innovative Spanish tech companies enter and succeed in the US market. It provides tailored services like global business trips, management training, and help establishing operations in the US. StepOne's team of experts from top universities can strategically guide companies through cultural and market differences. Services are funded through project fees for initial support and success fees if objectives like partnerships, US operations, or investment are achieved.
This document provides targets, results, and outlook for the adidas Group for 2012, 2011, and 2013. In 2012, the Group achieved a currency-neutral sales increase of 6% and an operating margin of 8%. Gross margin was 47.7% and average operating working capital as a percentage of sales decreased to 20%. Earnings per share increased 29% to €3.78. For 2013, the outlook projects continued sales growth across various segments and brands, with gross margin targeted to increase to 48.0-48.5% and operating margin approaching 9%.
This document defines a solution as a homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances, where a solute substance dissolves in a solvent. It provides examples of solutions like carbonated water, saline water, and blood plasma. The document notes solutions can be solid, liquid, or gas, and defines solubility as the maximum amount of solute that can dissolve in a given amount of solvent to form a stable solution.
This document provides information on severe and complicated malaria. It begins by defining malaria and describing the different species of Plasmodium that cause it. It then distinguishes between uncomplicated and severe malaria. Severe malaria is defined as malaria illness that threatens a patient's life, with features like cerebral malaria, severe anemia, respiratory distress, hypoglycemia, or circulatory collapse. The document outlines groups at high risk of severe malaria and describes diagnosing and managing severe malaria cases, including giving parenteral antimalarial treatment like artesunate immediately, managing complications, and providing supportive care.
Soccer equipment has evolved over the years through the use of polymers. Cleats have improved to better grip grass and turf surfaces through shaped metal or plastic spikes. Goals now use plastic posts and crossbars instead of wood, and all include protective netting. Fields can be constructed from turf, grass, or rubber track materials, with turf utilizing polyethylene fibers.
Project work malaria class 12_ HS biology projectdrdduttaM
This document contains a certificate and project work from a student named Sourav De from Narrah High School in Bankura, India. The project is about developing a malaria prevention strategy for the malaria prone areas of Bankura District. It includes an introduction to malaria, its symptoms, life cycle and transmission. The aims and objectives are to prevent malaria in the area and monitor prevention strategies. The methods section describes using questionnaires and collecting malaria case data. The results section shows a scoring system used to analyze prevention work done in different categories like home sanitation, IRS spraying, mosquito net use and medicine availability.
The document discusses logic gates and their usage. It introduces different logic gates including AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR. It describes how to draw logic circuits from Boolean expressions and analyze circuits to obtain logical expressions. The document also discusses how NAND and NOR gates are universal and can be used to build any other logic gate. It covers positive and negative logic and how to construct sum-of-product and product-of-sum expressions using logic gates.
The document summarizes information about malaria, including:
- Malaria is caused by a parasite transmitted through mosquito bites and causes symptoms like fever and headache. It disproportionately impacts sub-Saharan Africa.
- The parasite's lifecycle involves stages in the liver and blood cells. Diagnosis involves examining blood smears under a microscope. Complications can include cerebral malaria, organ failure, and low blood sugar.
- Bangladesh reports around 50,000 confirmed malaria cases annually, mostly Plasmodium falciparum. Distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and antimalarial drugs has reduced cases and deaths in recent years.
This document discusses logic gates and their functions. It describes three basic logic gates: AND gates, OR gates, and NOT gates. AND gates only output true if both inputs are true. OR gates output true if either input is true. NOT gates reverse the input logic state. Examples are given for each gate type.
This document provides targets, results, and outlook for the adidas Group for 2012, 2011, and 2013. In 2012, the Group achieved a currency-neutral sales increase of 6% and an operating margin of 8%. Gross margin was 47.7% and average operating working capital as a percentage of sales decreased to 20%. Earnings per share increased 29% to €3.78. For 2013, the outlook projects continued sales growth across various segments and brands, with gross margin targeted to increase to 48.0-48.5% and operating margin approaching 9%.
This document defines a solution as a homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances, where a solute substance dissolves in a solvent. It provides examples of solutions like carbonated water, saline water, and blood plasma. The document notes solutions can be solid, liquid, or gas, and defines solubility as the maximum amount of solute that can dissolve in a given amount of solvent to form a stable solution.
This document provides information on severe and complicated malaria. It begins by defining malaria and describing the different species of Plasmodium that cause it. It then distinguishes between uncomplicated and severe malaria. Severe malaria is defined as malaria illness that threatens a patient's life, with features like cerebral malaria, severe anemia, respiratory distress, hypoglycemia, or circulatory collapse. The document outlines groups at high risk of severe malaria and describes diagnosing and managing severe malaria cases, including giving parenteral antimalarial treatment like artesunate immediately, managing complications, and providing supportive care.
Soccer equipment has evolved over the years through the use of polymers. Cleats have improved to better grip grass and turf surfaces through shaped metal or plastic spikes. Goals now use plastic posts and crossbars instead of wood, and all include protective netting. Fields can be constructed from turf, grass, or rubber track materials, with turf utilizing polyethylene fibers.
Project work malaria class 12_ HS biology projectdrdduttaM
This document contains a certificate and project work from a student named Sourav De from Narrah High School in Bankura, India. The project is about developing a malaria prevention strategy for the malaria prone areas of Bankura District. It includes an introduction to malaria, its symptoms, life cycle and transmission. The aims and objectives are to prevent malaria in the area and monitor prevention strategies. The methods section describes using questionnaires and collecting malaria case data. The results section shows a scoring system used to analyze prevention work done in different categories like home sanitation, IRS spraying, mosquito net use and medicine availability.
The document discusses logic gates and their usage. It introduces different logic gates including AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR. It describes how to draw logic circuits from Boolean expressions and analyze circuits to obtain logical expressions. The document also discusses how NAND and NOR gates are universal and can be used to build any other logic gate. It covers positive and negative logic and how to construct sum-of-product and product-of-sum expressions using logic gates.
The document summarizes information about malaria, including:
- Malaria is caused by a parasite transmitted through mosquito bites and causes symptoms like fever and headache. It disproportionately impacts sub-Saharan Africa.
- The parasite's lifecycle involves stages in the liver and blood cells. Diagnosis involves examining blood smears under a microscope. Complications can include cerebral malaria, organ failure, and low blood sugar.
- Bangladesh reports around 50,000 confirmed malaria cases annually, mostly Plasmodium falciparum. Distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and antimalarial drugs has reduced cases and deaths in recent years.
This document discusses logic gates and their functions. It describes three basic logic gates: AND gates, OR gates, and NOT gates. AND gates only output true if both inputs are true. OR gates output true if either input is true. NOT gates reverse the input logic state. Examples are given for each gate type.
The document provides details about demonstration experiments involving logic gates and transformers.
It describes the basic logic gates - OR, AND, NOT, NOR, NAND, EXOR and EXNOR - and provides their truth tables and circuit designs. It also explains the working of step-down and step-up transformers through circuit diagrams and discusses transformer ratio, efficiency and various energy losses in transformers.
This document discusses energy bands in solids and semiconductor devices. It explains how the discrete energy levels in isolated atoms merge and form continuous energy bands as atoms are brought together in a solid. In semiconductors, the valence band is full while the conduction band is empty, with a small band gap between them. Thermally excited electrons can cross this gap, making semiconductors weakly conductive. Doping a semiconductor with impurities introduces donors or acceptors that increase the number of free electrons or holes, making it an n-type or p-type extrinsic semiconductor. The carrier concentrations and conductivity of semiconductors are determined by factors like doping level, temperature, and carrier mobilities.
This document provides an introduction to basic logic gates. It includes:
1. An introduction that defines logic gates and their use of diodes to allow or block signals based on logic conditions.
2. Descriptions of three basic logic gates - OR, AND, and NOT - including their symbols, Boolean expressions, and truth tables.
3. Sections on each of the three basic gates that explain how to simulate them using components like diodes, transistors, and resistors, and provide examples of their truth tables.
The document serves as an overview of logic gates, their components, representations, and functions as basic building blocks of digital circuits.
This presentation gives a lot of information about
Semiconductor Devices.This is presented by Rajesh Kumar Sangani from Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies,Basar Dist
Adilabad,A.P,India.
Polymers are macromolecules formed by linking together small repeating units called monomers. There are two main types of polymerization: addition and condensation. Addition polymers are formed without the elimination of small molecules when monomers containing carbon-carbon double bonds polymerize via a chain reaction mechanism involving three steps: initiation, propagation, and termination. Condensation polymers are formed with the elimination of small molecules like water or ammonia when bifunctional monomers react. Common examples of addition polymerization include polyethylene formed from ethylene monomers using a free radical initiator like benzoyl peroxide.
This document is a biology project on immunity submitted by Rahul Tripathi of class XII to his teacher Mr. Vikas Dixit. It contains an introduction, table of contents, chapters on the immune system including the fluid system, granulocytes, agranulocytes, lymphocytes, defense mechanisms, types of immunity like innate and adaptive immunity, and a conclusion thanking the teacher. The project aims to explain the key concepts of the immune system through chapters on its various components and functions to build understanding of how the body resists diseases.
Chemistry Investigatory Project Class 12Self-employed
This document is a student's chemistry investigatory project report on studying the setting of cement mixtures over time. It includes an introduction on cement, the aim to study how cement mixtures with sand, fly ash, and time affect strength. The procedures take cement mixtures and tests their strength after 3, 7, and 30 days by attempting to break slabs. The results found that strength increased with longer setting time and mixtures with fly ash and limestone showed lower required weights to break after each time period compared to a sand-only mixture.
- The document is a chemistry project submitted by a student named Tarun Malhotra analyzing samples of brass and bronze through qualitative analysis.
- It thanks various teachers and administrators for their support and contains an index of sections including introductions to alloys, common alloys like brass and bronze, how to prepare alloys, and descriptions of the qualitative analysis experiments performed on samples of brass and bronze.
- The experiments aimed to identify the metal constituents in the samples through chemical tests to detect copper and zinc in brass and tests for copper and tin in bronze.
This document appears to be a student project report on investigating the relationship between input/output voltage and number of turns in the primary and secondary coils of a transformer. It includes sections on introduction, theory, apparatus, procedure, observations, conclusion, and bibliography. The key points are that the output voltage of a transformer depends on the ratio of turns in the secondary coil to the primary coil, and that there are losses between the input and output resulting in the transformer's efficiency being less than 100%.
Presentación del programa de aceleración del programa TechBA Monterreal y TechBA Austin, que apoya a las pequeñas y medianas empresas a expandirse a mercados internacionales
1. Scaale is a venture resource group that applies global context to companies through sales, capital, and talent. It has over 200 professionals with 30 years of experience helping companies with IPOs, M&A, fundraising, and international growth.
2. The document discusses listing a company on the Spanish MAB (Alternative Investment Market) as an efficient way to gain visibility, funding, and an exit compared to other options like venture capital or traditional banking. Some benefits highlighted are lower costs, the potential for growth in Spain and Latin America, and a proven track record.
3. Managing a company listed on the MAB from the US is possible
The document outlines Avon's strategic management case study, including an analysis of Avon's internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats, and recommends potential strategies for Avon such as expanding into key Asian and African markets to pursue growth opportunities, building their brand image among Generation Y consumers in North America, and focusing on innovations in their core beauty products.
How To Create A Billion $ Category: Mark Organ's Dreamforce '13 KeynoteInfluitive
Mark Organ discusses how to create a billion dollar category based on his experience founding Eloqua and Influitive. He explains that category creators have a transformational product experience combined with a disruptive business model driven by new technologies. Category creators focus on a narrow niche, drive leads efficiently to achieve growth, and emphasize customer success. They also have a missionary vision for the category rather than just their company.
How to Build a Billion Dollar SaaS Category - Achievers Tech Talks Feb 2014Mark Organ
Why just a build a company when you can create a whole new category instead? That’s the question that Influitive founder and CEO Mark Organ explored in his packed Achievers Tech Talk discussion on Feb 18, 2014.
Here’s one really good reason: category creators tend to grow revenue 4x faster and grow market cap 6x faster than those companies that enter a category later on.
Based on Mark’s experience building marketing automation category creator Eloqua, what he’s learned so far as Influitive (http://influitive.com) carves out a brand new category – advocate marketing – a little over a decade later, and his observations on why other powerful category creators, including Salesforce.com, Tesla and Keurig, have been so successful, his presentation proposes a whole new framework for category creation.
*Enhanced with new content and optimized for SlideShare*
Original recorded presentation at Dreamforce 2013: http://youtu.be/Pw_mTsKB1R4?t=1s
David Mennie from Acquia gave a presentation on digital transformation at a meetup in Atlanta. He discussed how customer experience is critical for business success and organizations need to embrace digital technologies. Mennie outlined four imperatives for the digital age: turning data into insights, transforming customer experience, embracing mobile, and accelerating digital business. He presented examples of Acquia customers transforming through their platform which provides the software to build and deliver digital experiences at scale quickly. Mennie argued digital transformation is essential and that Acquia supports this vision through their platform and commitment to customer success.
Steve Currie of Communitech - ScaleUp CT keynote 2017Courtney King
Keynote presentation from Communitech's own Steve Currie. Covering how Communitech is changing Waterloo-Kitchener, what Connecticut can do to emulate it, and how ScaleUps can face- and conquer, their uniquer challenges.
Patent Connect aims to connect intellectual property owners with companies that can commercialize innovations. Their mission is to create profits for both sides by brokering patent licensing and royalty agreements. The business plan projects rapid revenue growth from $50,000 in year 1 to $15 million in year 5, with net profits increasing from losses to $9.5 million in year 5. Patent Connect requires $1 million in initial funding to launch operations connecting university patent portfolios with interested industries.
This document summarizes an online reputation management company called ReviewPro. It provides services to help hotels understand guest satisfaction and profit from social media. ReviewPro has over 60 employees across four offices and thousands of clients in 70 countries. The company's software analyzes hundreds of millions of social media mentions to provide insights and tools to help hotels improve their online reputation and increase revenue. The founder discusses the large market opportunity in the hotel industry and ReviewPro's goal to continue expanding globally and consolidating its position as the benchmark for guest satisfaction analytics.
The document provides an overview of the history and growth of Acer from 1976 to 2012. It discusses key events such as Acer becoming the 2nd company to develop 32-bit PCs in 1986. It also outlines Acer's expansion through acquisitions and IPOs in the late 1980s. Graphs show increases in Acer's sales, income, employees and market share over this period. The leadership and management styles of Stan Shih and Leonard Liu who served as CEOs are compared. Finally, the current state of Acer as a global leader in PCs and other technology is presented.
Team U analyzed their past performance over 8 rounds. In rounds 1-3 they had the highest net contribution and market capitalization but made mistakes like inadequate advertising spending. Rounds 4 saw low sales due to conservative forecasting. Rounds 5-8 showed improved forecasting, R&D, and consistent advertising/sales spending resulting in only one inventory issue. Going forward, they recommend focusing on existing brands, targeted advertising, and matching hiring to demand. Predictions are for net contribution and SPI to increase 16.67% based on improved strategies.
The document provides details about demonstration experiments involving logic gates and transformers.
It describes the basic logic gates - OR, AND, NOT, NOR, NAND, EXOR and EXNOR - and provides their truth tables and circuit designs. It also explains the working of step-down and step-up transformers through circuit diagrams and discusses transformer ratio, efficiency and various energy losses in transformers.
This document discusses energy bands in solids and semiconductor devices. It explains how the discrete energy levels in isolated atoms merge and form continuous energy bands as atoms are brought together in a solid. In semiconductors, the valence band is full while the conduction band is empty, with a small band gap between them. Thermally excited electrons can cross this gap, making semiconductors weakly conductive. Doping a semiconductor with impurities introduces donors or acceptors that increase the number of free electrons or holes, making it an n-type or p-type extrinsic semiconductor. The carrier concentrations and conductivity of semiconductors are determined by factors like doping level, temperature, and carrier mobilities.
This document provides an introduction to basic logic gates. It includes:
1. An introduction that defines logic gates and their use of diodes to allow or block signals based on logic conditions.
2. Descriptions of three basic logic gates - OR, AND, and NOT - including their symbols, Boolean expressions, and truth tables.
3. Sections on each of the three basic gates that explain how to simulate them using components like diodes, transistors, and resistors, and provide examples of their truth tables.
The document serves as an overview of logic gates, their components, representations, and functions as basic building blocks of digital circuits.
This presentation gives a lot of information about
Semiconductor Devices.This is presented by Rajesh Kumar Sangani from Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies,Basar Dist
Adilabad,A.P,India.
Polymers are macromolecules formed by linking together small repeating units called monomers. There are two main types of polymerization: addition and condensation. Addition polymers are formed without the elimination of small molecules when monomers containing carbon-carbon double bonds polymerize via a chain reaction mechanism involving three steps: initiation, propagation, and termination. Condensation polymers are formed with the elimination of small molecules like water or ammonia when bifunctional monomers react. Common examples of addition polymerization include polyethylene formed from ethylene monomers using a free radical initiator like benzoyl peroxide.
This document is a biology project on immunity submitted by Rahul Tripathi of class XII to his teacher Mr. Vikas Dixit. It contains an introduction, table of contents, chapters on the immune system including the fluid system, granulocytes, agranulocytes, lymphocytes, defense mechanisms, types of immunity like innate and adaptive immunity, and a conclusion thanking the teacher. The project aims to explain the key concepts of the immune system through chapters on its various components and functions to build understanding of how the body resists diseases.
Chemistry Investigatory Project Class 12Self-employed
This document is a student's chemistry investigatory project report on studying the setting of cement mixtures over time. It includes an introduction on cement, the aim to study how cement mixtures with sand, fly ash, and time affect strength. The procedures take cement mixtures and tests their strength after 3, 7, and 30 days by attempting to break slabs. The results found that strength increased with longer setting time and mixtures with fly ash and limestone showed lower required weights to break after each time period compared to a sand-only mixture.
- The document is a chemistry project submitted by a student named Tarun Malhotra analyzing samples of brass and bronze through qualitative analysis.
- It thanks various teachers and administrators for their support and contains an index of sections including introductions to alloys, common alloys like brass and bronze, how to prepare alloys, and descriptions of the qualitative analysis experiments performed on samples of brass and bronze.
- The experiments aimed to identify the metal constituents in the samples through chemical tests to detect copper and zinc in brass and tests for copper and tin in bronze.
This document appears to be a student project report on investigating the relationship between input/output voltage and number of turns in the primary and secondary coils of a transformer. It includes sections on introduction, theory, apparatus, procedure, observations, conclusion, and bibliography. The key points are that the output voltage of a transformer depends on the ratio of turns in the secondary coil to the primary coil, and that there are losses between the input and output resulting in the transformer's efficiency being less than 100%.
Presentación del programa de aceleración del programa TechBA Monterreal y TechBA Austin, que apoya a las pequeñas y medianas empresas a expandirse a mercados internacionales
1. Scaale is a venture resource group that applies global context to companies through sales, capital, and talent. It has over 200 professionals with 30 years of experience helping companies with IPOs, M&A, fundraising, and international growth.
2. The document discusses listing a company on the Spanish MAB (Alternative Investment Market) as an efficient way to gain visibility, funding, and an exit compared to other options like venture capital or traditional banking. Some benefits highlighted are lower costs, the potential for growth in Spain and Latin America, and a proven track record.
3. Managing a company listed on the MAB from the US is possible
The document outlines Avon's strategic management case study, including an analysis of Avon's internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats, and recommends potential strategies for Avon such as expanding into key Asian and African markets to pursue growth opportunities, building their brand image among Generation Y consumers in North America, and focusing on innovations in their core beauty products.
How To Create A Billion $ Category: Mark Organ's Dreamforce '13 KeynoteInfluitive
Mark Organ discusses how to create a billion dollar category based on his experience founding Eloqua and Influitive. He explains that category creators have a transformational product experience combined with a disruptive business model driven by new technologies. Category creators focus on a narrow niche, drive leads efficiently to achieve growth, and emphasize customer success. They also have a missionary vision for the category rather than just their company.
How to Build a Billion Dollar SaaS Category - Achievers Tech Talks Feb 2014Mark Organ
Why just a build a company when you can create a whole new category instead? That’s the question that Influitive founder and CEO Mark Organ explored in his packed Achievers Tech Talk discussion on Feb 18, 2014.
Here’s one really good reason: category creators tend to grow revenue 4x faster and grow market cap 6x faster than those companies that enter a category later on.
Based on Mark’s experience building marketing automation category creator Eloqua, what he’s learned so far as Influitive (http://influitive.com) carves out a brand new category – advocate marketing – a little over a decade later, and his observations on why other powerful category creators, including Salesforce.com, Tesla and Keurig, have been so successful, his presentation proposes a whole new framework for category creation.
*Enhanced with new content and optimized for SlideShare*
Original recorded presentation at Dreamforce 2013: http://youtu.be/Pw_mTsKB1R4?t=1s
David Mennie from Acquia gave a presentation on digital transformation at a meetup in Atlanta. He discussed how customer experience is critical for business success and organizations need to embrace digital technologies. Mennie outlined four imperatives for the digital age: turning data into insights, transforming customer experience, embracing mobile, and accelerating digital business. He presented examples of Acquia customers transforming through their platform which provides the software to build and deliver digital experiences at scale quickly. Mennie argued digital transformation is essential and that Acquia supports this vision through their platform and commitment to customer success.
Steve Currie of Communitech - ScaleUp CT keynote 2017Courtney King
Keynote presentation from Communitech's own Steve Currie. Covering how Communitech is changing Waterloo-Kitchener, what Connecticut can do to emulate it, and how ScaleUps can face- and conquer, their uniquer challenges.
Patent Connect aims to connect intellectual property owners with companies that can commercialize innovations. Their mission is to create profits for both sides by brokering patent licensing and royalty agreements. The business plan projects rapid revenue growth from $50,000 in year 1 to $15 million in year 5, with net profits increasing from losses to $9.5 million in year 5. Patent Connect requires $1 million in initial funding to launch operations connecting university patent portfolios with interested industries.
This document summarizes an online reputation management company called ReviewPro. It provides services to help hotels understand guest satisfaction and profit from social media. ReviewPro has over 60 employees across four offices and thousands of clients in 70 countries. The company's software analyzes hundreds of millions of social media mentions to provide insights and tools to help hotels improve their online reputation and increase revenue. The founder discusses the large market opportunity in the hotel industry and ReviewPro's goal to continue expanding globally and consolidating its position as the benchmark for guest satisfaction analytics.
The document provides an overview of the history and growth of Acer from 1976 to 2012. It discusses key events such as Acer becoming the 2nd company to develop 32-bit PCs in 1986. It also outlines Acer's expansion through acquisitions and IPOs in the late 1980s. Graphs show increases in Acer's sales, income, employees and market share over this period. The leadership and management styles of Stan Shih and Leonard Liu who served as CEOs are compared. Finally, the current state of Acer as a global leader in PCs and other technology is presented.
Team U analyzed their past performance over 8 rounds. In rounds 1-3 they had the highest net contribution and market capitalization but made mistakes like inadequate advertising spending. Rounds 4 saw low sales due to conservative forecasting. Rounds 5-8 showed improved forecasting, R&D, and consistent advertising/sales spending resulting in only one inventory issue. Going forward, they recommend focusing on existing brands, targeted advertising, and matching hiring to demand. Predictions are for net contribution and SPI to increase 16.67% based on improved strategies.
The document provides an overview of SalesLife, Inc., which aims to address sales performance issues through scalable game simulations delivered via mobile and web. It summarizes SalesLife's solution of using games to teach sales skills, its business model of selling to corporations and individuals, and its plans to target large markets like direct sales and technology. Projections show it expects to generate $955,000 in revenue within a year and reach break-even within 9-10 months if it raises $3 million.
This document provides an overview of key topics in international business, including:
1. The major drivers of globalization such as converging customer needs, trade policies, and cost advantages.
2. The major world marketplaces, including North America (NAFTA), Europe (EU), and Pacific Asia.
3. Factors that influence competitive advantage for nations and firms, such as absolute advantage, comparative advantage, and Porter's determinants.
It also discusses import/export balances, exchange rates, and how they impact global trade. Tables show recent U.S. trade deficits and the growing imbalance in imports/exports.
The document discusses key topics in international business, including the major drivers of globalization, major world marketplaces, competitive advantage, import/export balances, and exchange rates. It provides definitions for important terms and concepts. Several charts and graphs are included to illustrate trade relationships and deficits between countries.
The document discusses key topics in international business, including the major drivers of globalization, major world marketplaces, competitive advantage, import/export balances, and exchange rates. It provides definitions for important terms and concepts. Several charts and graphs are included to illustrate trade relationships and deficits between countries.
The document discusses key topics in international business, including the major drivers of globalization, major world marketplaces, competitive advantage, import/export balances, and exchange rates. It provides definitions for important terms and concepts. Several charts and graphs are included to illustrate trade relationships and deficits between countries.
This document discusses corporate entrepreneurship and creating new businesses within existing companies. It covers:
1) The importance of corporate entrepreneurship in helping companies renew, regenerate and stay competitive in a globalized world with disruptive technologies.
2) Key fundamentals of corporate entrepreneurship including creating new revenue streams, developing talent, and increasing a company's portfolio.
3) The need for companies to establish processes to identify opportunities and vet new business ideas through pitching, planning, and proof of concept phases.
The Up Group is a digital executive search and networking firm based in London. They connect digital leaders with innovative companies to help create business value. Over the last decade, they have built a global network of business leaders and digital experts. They have experience hiring for fast growing tech companies and consulting with companies undergoing digital transformation. Their team includes consultants with experience in management, search firms, and business schools.
The document summarizes the key findings from the H&H Webranking 2010 report, which evaluates corporate websites. Some of the main points include:
- European corporate websites generally had higher technical standards and more company/financial information than global websites. However, global sites were better at using social media.
- Most companies and analysts said websites would become more important and more emphasis would be placed on social media. Job seekers primarily use websites and social media to research companies and find vacancies.
- Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands ranked as the top three countries based on average website scores.
- Social media integration and mobile optimization were areas of increased focus, though few "live" websites showed
2. Index
About StepOne 3
Market Figures 4
Why StepOne 6
Our Products 7
Location 9
Shareholders Information 10
Press Coverage 11
Contacts 12
2
3. About StepOne
Our goal
StepOne’s model is a breakthrough in servicing high-tech companies that seek to enter the US market.
StepOne is more than a bridge: we ensure that our clients enter the market prepared, with a clearly-
defined strategy, and possessing the network needed to reach our clients ´goals.
Company profile of our prospects
StepOne targets innovative companies with successful business models that are already proven in Spain.
Our goal is to find talented management teams that are committed to succeeding in the US market.
Sectors
We focus on high growth sectors where innovation plays an important role:
IT Internet Life Sciences Cleantech
StepOne’s success rests on our team. Our team members, graduates of universities such as Harvard,
Stanford, Oxford University and Boston College, and have the experience and knowledge necessary for
our client’s success. Our expertise is supplemented by our extensive network of advisors.
We have the people, the knowledge, and the infrastructure to help you succeed
3
4. Market Figures
Spain - USA Exports Trend (IT) Spain - USA Exports Trend (Energy & Environment)
2004 - 2008 2004 - 2008
%
400.000 1.600.000 R = 35 1.503.180
365.341
CAG
350.000 1.400.000 1.306.442
300.000 1.200.000 1.124.615
250.000 223.271 1.000.000
200.000 180.822 800.000 698.183
161.525
150.000 126.647 600.000
447.655
100.000 400.000
50.000 200.000
0 0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Figures in !M Source: ICEX
By the numbers
22% Innovative IT companies that consider internationalization as a top priority (AETIC, 2008)
90% VC investments in Spain focused on consolidation and expansion of their companies (ASCRI)
5.7% Total Spanish technology that is exported
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5. Challenges going into the US
•! 305M people market size
US Market Environment •! 50 States, each with different laws
•! Strong relationship between universities and private corporations
•! Highly competitive market
Strategic and Business •! Relevant technological market: Quality and Quantity
Definition •! Innovative companies established throughout
•! Financial resources, including strong venture capital presence
•! Differences between US and Spanish business culture
Management Adaptation •! Multiculturalism
•! “Business” English
To achieve success, tailored ongoing assessment and training is an absolute
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6. Why StepOne
•! Network in Spain (Institutions, VC, Universities)
US Market Environment
•! Network in US (advisors, experts in Silicon Valley)
•! Strategic approach in US market implementation
Strategic and Business •! Business Plan pitch and corporate overview adaptation
Definition •! Identification and collaboration in appropriate networks,
advisors …
•! Management assessment, training, refinement
Management Adaptation •! Human Resources preparation
6
7. Our Products: Global Business Trips
By partnering with top business organizations in Spain, StepOne helps
clients take their first steps into the US market
Partnership
•! StepOne partners
with a public or
private institution to Selection
help sponsor a
Global Business Trip •! Only the most
viable companies
are selected to Preparation
participate
•! Chosen companies
receive a “crash Global Biz Trip
course” in American
business culture •! Businesses take
•! StepOne’s team part in group tours
works full time to to large Bay Area
gain one-on-one tech companies or
meetings with participate in world-
By partnering with relevant players for renown conferences
StepOne, organizations the Spanish in their field
companies
gain valuable exposure •! One-on-one
to both US and Spanish meetings with
relevant US
tech companies while
companies
promoting supplement the GBT
internationalization
7
8. Our Products: One-on-One Client Services
StepOne ensures that its clients enter the US market completely
prepared and will be with them from start to finish. StepOne’s business
model is based upon project fees and success fees
Identification
•! Innovation and Selection
uniqueness of the
project •! Top tech companies Adaptation
•! Successful track •! Talented and
record committed •! Management Implementation
•! High growth rates management assessment and
HHRR preparation
•! Attractiveness to •! Geographical setup
the US Market •! Business Plan
•! Logistics &
adaptation
operations
•! Legal support
•! Introduction to the Establishing
•! Strategy market
formulation to enter
in the US
•! Partner/VC
the market
meetings
•! SMART* goals
definition
Phase I (1 – 3 months) Phase II
Project Fees Success Fees
* Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely 8
9. Client Services: Focusing on Execution
StepOne focuses on fulfilling the objectives that are defined in each
project, which, may consist of any of the following:
Set up operations in the US
Form Technological/Business partnerships with US companies
Attract capital to set up US operations
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