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E-Ink: Financing Growth Presented By: NOVITAS Harpreet Bagga Neelabh Singh Qasim Zaidi Vikash Kr. Malhotra Virendra Shukla
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Context Company Name: E-Ink Time: March 4, 1999 Event: JC Penny signed for pilot test in 10 stores across 4 cities
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What is E-Ink A product which could beam digital information form a wireless transmitter directly to a sheet of electronic ink that incorporated a printed antenna and a processor. Forecasts estimate large market potential for this technology: Re-usable newspapers E-books Graphical displays No market leaders, innovators could gain large market share
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E Ink Applications Matrixed Displays Semgented Displays
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Who Is E Ink Founders – highly capable fund-raisers Jacobson: MIT Media Lab Director, “a visionary” Wilcox: CEO, Harvard MBA, tech background Rubin: Lexis-Nexis founder, publishing “icon” Additions Albert & Comiskey: Jacobson’s students, developers Culture R&D Optimistic Problem solvers
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E-Ink Goal To revolutionize print communication through electronic ink displays To move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing, and maintain market excitement about the company. Pursue opportunities that could generate short term profitability while also serving to develop the technology along the path of radio paper
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Definition of Core Competencies Provides potential access to a wide variety of markets Significantly contributes to the perceived customer benefits of the end product Should be difficult for competitors to imitate
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E Ink Core Competencies Materials Development “Dreaming” “Productizing” Networking and Fundraising Need to develop manufacturing expertise
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Competency to Products Tree: Competencies Support Products Technology& Finance Partners LAD/FPD/Radio Paper
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Opportunity (Critical Path) Large area displays – Estimated Rev - $20 million (2003) & 100 million (2004) – Investment needed - $10 – 20 million – Relevant Market Size - $ 610 million – Burn Rate $0.9 million (will last for 9 months) Battery powered flat panel displays – Market Size $5 billion – Investment needed 30 – 50 million Radio paper – Market Size (Newspaper) - $60 billion – Investment needed $50 – 100 million
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Large area displays Market Size: $610 million E-ink could be printed over large area- Scalable Economical (Half of the existing price) E-ink enabled signs could be changed instantly ( compared to 90 days time for LED) Expected market share- $100 million by 2004 Expected growth of 200% with LED
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Flat Panel displays In 1998 total Flat Panel display sales $14 billion Expected to grow to $25.9billion by 2004 E-ink’s focus: Applications requiring a high-contrast, low- power, thin and ultra-lightweight display Sales potential ->$7 billion by 2002
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Flat Panel displays Vs. LCD E-Ink Direct Color Change Looks like real ink on paper Less than 1mm thick Flexible Lightweight LCD Requires a change in light transmission Lacks the appeal of ink on paper Thicker than 1mm Rigid Limited viewing angle
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Publishing Radio paper is the ultimate aim for E-Ink U.S. Publishing Industry->$135 billion Manufacturing Cost->20%- 40%->27- 54 billion opportunity
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Evaluation of their Critical Path Single Product for a single market and a single market niche Technology Evolution Step by Step Large number of patents including including license form MIT
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Financing First Round Of Financing: $15.8 billion Still $9 billion in hand Financing Need: E-Ink would need to invest $10-$20 million for Large Area Display Additional $30-$50 million in financing for Flat Panel Display Additional $50-$100 million for publishing industry
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Challenges Choosing the right partner for both financing and technology development. Retain E Ink's creativity, drive while focusing the company on growth and the demands of a first-product introduction Develop the business model as E-Ink move along the “critical path”.
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