News Aggregators Online
...sitting in his office on the evening of June 22nd 2005 following a hard working day. He was not only tired but also worried. In the afternoon he had another long and heated discussion with his colleague, Carles Blanch, about the future of the company, particularly about the business concept and the growth strategy. The discussions with Carles had been frequent during the last months and the disagreement on the basic questions had become stronger. Marc and Carles had been working quite well during the first years of NAO but now the deep disagreement about the future of the company worried him greatly.
Marc felt that he was at a crossroads. On the one hand, he was happy and much satisfied to have been successful in starting a high-tech company that had created a powerful technology. After having developed products and solved financial problems, the company now stood on the edge of the growth stage. However, the different viewpoints regarding the future of the company had led him to consider actually leaving the company and going back to the university. This would be a tough decision but one which Marc would have to give serious consideration if an agreement with Carles on the future growth strategy could not be reached. Instinctively Marc began to review the start-up process of NAO, the problems they have had until now, and the development of his relations with Carles. Perhaps, the present situation is the result of some errors of the past, he thought, and he did not want to make another wrong decision.
Setting the Background
News Aggregator Online, S.L. was founded in Girona (Spain) in June 2000 by a group of young university graduates in the field of industrial engineering. In the meantime, the company developed an advanced system for tracking, classifying, managing, and distributing digital information, combining the most innovative technology with...
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