This case describes the decision faced by the founder of Nantero, the company is developing a new technology of semiconductors. The company needs to raise additional capital company. Prospective investors are competing vision of the company and its business model. Some investors want the company to license its technology semiconductor companies. Others want the company to become "lableless" semiconductor company producing and selling their own products. The question for the team in Nantero that model makes sense, and that the investor has the most attractive?
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by William A. Sahlman, Dan Heath, Carolyn Perkins Source: Harvard Business School 27 pages. Publication Date: August 30, 2008. Prod. #: 809031-PDF-ENG