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BandyWorks (A): Founding a New Business ...

Fairchild, Gregory...

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BandyWorks (A): Founding a New Business (Guided by the Past)

Fairchild, Gregory B.; Tucker, Charles

ENT-0173 | Published February 1, 2012 | 6 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

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Now in his mid-40s, Tom Bandy was not a novice entrepreneur. He was a veteran of the IT revolution two decades earlier. He had started a company after college that successfully exploited a market niche in database management. But by his late 30s, he had lost the business. Now he was ready to launch a new one. And guided by experience, he had some thoughts about how to finance it.