Assignment: Entrepreneurship
Box, Inc. Case Study
Read the Box, Inc. case study (end of chapter 7). Answer these questions:
1. Will Aaron be the next Bill Gates of flame out before Box can become profitable and really large?
2. What is the culture of the company?
3. What accounts for it being so open and freewheeling?
4. How does the culture reflect the four founders, their history together, their ages, the culture of Silicon Valley, etc.?
Make sure paper body starts with a summary where there is a statement of thesis (overview of the points to be made), continues with a discussion (or specific answers to specific questions), and ends with a conclusion. The five specific questions should be annotated and have specific answers. Please double space-it's easier for the grader to make comments.
All papers should be written in the third person (he, he, it, and they). Make every effort not to shift to second person (you, your) as in, "When starting a company you need money." Try to avoid shifting to the first person (I, we) as well. It is distracting to the reader and bad style to shift persons in a paper-students often do it in the middle of a sentence.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.