How much is your idea worth?

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Today I am sharing a case that I wrote for an MBA lecture on healthcare venture capital investing. It is a one pager, and it shows four interesting companies while "forcing" the investor to choose one and only one. It tries to bring the elements you need to think about when valuing opportunities in the healthcare sector (team, market size, path to market, product, competitive advantage, intellectual protection...). It belongs to a 20 microcase series (I call them "microcases" because they are all one pagers, easy to read...).

I decided to share this particular one because it usually generates fantastic discussions in class, and now it has become my favourite case for teaching entrepreneurship (!!!). As in real life, there is no right answer to the question about which company would you pick as your preferred investment, your rationale in picking one or the other is what matters.

As you know, an idea is worth nothing... if you execute your idea, it can be worth a lot, but its value therefore depends on its execution.

Hope you like the case, enjoy!

(Note: I uploaded the pdf file to scribd for those of you interested, here's the link)