Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Waypoint: Reinventing Single Family Home Rental - Teaching note
Foster G; Hoyt DTeaching Note SGSB-E467TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn early 2009, following the collapse of the housing market, Doug Brien and Colin Wiel began buying single family homes (SFH) to renovate and rent. SFH rental had previously been a mom-and-pop business due to scaling difficulties—buying and managing large properties such as apartment complexes was well suited to institutional investors, but no one had solved the problem of buying and managing large numbers of relatively inexpensive SFHs. Brien a...Starting at €0.00
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Stella & Dot - Teaching Note
Mike Child, Sara RosenthalTeaching Note SGSB-E430TN-EEntrepreneurshipJessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot, started her entrepreneurial career as the co-founder of Wedding Channel, an experience which laid the foundation for her most recent venture, a direct sales jewelry business. Jessica’s main goal in launching the business was to provide women with an alternate career platform to run their own business under their own terms. The case describes the evolution of her company, from its modest start in J...Starting at €0.00
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Waypoint: Reinventing Single Family Home Rental
Foster G; Hoyt DCase SGSB-E467-EEntrepreneurshipIn early 2009, following the collapse of the housing market, Doug Brien and Colin Wiel began buying single family homes (SFH) to renovate and rent. SFH rental had previously been a mom-and-pop business due to scaling difficulties—buying and managing large properties such as apartment complexes was well suited to institutional investors, but no one had solved the problem of buying and managing large numbers of relatively inexpensive SFHs. Brien a...Starting at €8.20
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Stella & Dot
Mike Child, Sara RosenthalCase SGSB-E430-EEntrepreneurshipJessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot, started her entrepreneurial career as the co-founder of Wedding Channel, an experience which laid the foundation for her most recent venture, a direct sales jewelry business. Jessica’s main goal in launching the business was to provide women with an alternate career platform to run their own business under their own terms. The case describes the evolution of her company, from its modest start in J...Starting at €8.20