Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Clover (A)
Leslie, M; Speiser, M; Makinen, JCase SGSB-SM283A-EStrategyClover Network’s founders didn’t see the curveball coming at the end of 2012. The two-year-old start-up had just nine employees. It had dumped its first business idea, pivoted from its second, and was working hard on a new product: a tablet-based cash register with built-in credit card processing. Large credit card payment processing companies had started noticing Clover and one had just agreed to pre-order $2 million of Clover hardware. It wa...Starting at €8.20
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Clover (A) - (B) - Teaching note
Leslie, M; Speiser, M; Makinen, JTeaching Note SGSB-SM283TN-EStrategyClover Network’s founders didn’t see the curveball coming at the end of 2012. The two-year-old start-up had just nine employees. It had dumped its first business idea, pivoted from its second, and was working hard on a new product: a tablet-based cash register with built-in credit card processing. Large credit card payment processing companies had started noticing Clover and one had just agreed to pre-order $2 million of Clover hardware. It wa...Starting at €0.00
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Clover (B)
Leslie, M; Speiser, M; Makinen, JCase SGSB-SM283B-EStrategyClover Network’s founders didn’t see the curveball coming at the end of 2012. The two-year-old start-up had just nine employees. It had dumped its first business idea, pivoted from its second, and was working hard on a new product: a tablet-based cash register with built-in credit card processing. Large credit card payment processing companies had started noticing Clover and one had just agreed to pre-order $2 million of Clover hardware. It wa...Starting at €5.74
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Qihoo 360: A Subversive Tiger in the Internet Jungle
Harikesh Nair, Sheila MelvinCase SGSB-M355-EMarketingQihoo 360 Technology Company was a leading Internet platform company in China, the number one provider of Internet and mobile security products as measured by user base. The company entered China’s fiercely competitive Internet market relatively late and adopted the “freemium” model as the basis of its business. “In the beginning,” said Qihoo founder Zhou Hongyi, “Forget how to make money – focus on how to create a valuable service for every cons...Starting at €8.20