Case Studies: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Apple
A course in business for tech folks, and in tech for the business folks
Description
- Conducted by an instructor who worked in Sales Finance at Google, and set up Product Finance at Flipkart
Whether you are an engineer seeking to understand business, or a business/strategy person seeking to understand technology - this course is right for you.
What's Covered:
- Case studies of Apple, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
- In-depth analysis of the business models of these companies
- Line-by-line walk through their financial statements and investor filings
- Product choices - good and bad - made by these companies
- Competitive analysis of each company: how they stack up in revenue, growth, profitability and valuation
What You Will Learn!
- Understand common business models in the tech industry
- Spot trends, and possibly pick the winners and losers of tomorrow
- Understand how we got to today - the key players, their successes, failures, strengths and weaknesses
- Make sense, line-by-line of the financial statements and investor reports of tech companies
Who Should Attend!
- Aspiring entrepreneurs - those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it
- Engineers and product managers - folks with a strong understanding of product, now looking to get the business knowledge needed to build a business
- Finance and business professionals - folks who get the business aspects, and are now looking to really understand product and technology