Case Study: Danny Shader

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There are two fathers that has different personality and interest. One is Danny Shader, who is an successful entrepreneur that runs Netscape, Motorola, and Amazon business. While the other father was David Hornik who is an investor and has a lot of interest like collecting books, cerates his own major in computer music, earned a master’s criminology and law dregree, choosing and listening to the entrepreneurs pitches for him to invest on. Shader has this brilliant idea that pitched to Hornik. Shader was proposing an innovative solution about the problems of the Americans in doing online purchases because they don’t have a bank account or credit card. Hornik was interested on it and immediately offered a term sheet to shader. But Hornik realized …show more content…

PayNearMe was growing at more than 30% per month with his major partners 7-eleven and Greyhound in providing these services. When some entrepreneurs call to ask Hornik, Shader tells them, “You may be thinking he’s just a nice guy, but he’s a lot more than that. He’s phenomenal: super-hardworking and very courageous. He can be both challenging and supportive at the same time. And he’s incredibly responsive, which is one of the best characteristics you can have in an investor. He’ll get back to you any hour—day or night—quickly, on anything that matters.” Shader admires Hornik’s dedication and commitment to the entrepreneurs. So Shader recommended him to his known CEO company of Rocket Lawyer to be an investor. Even though it has downsides, working like a giver is like driving it through his success. Because in offering term sheets to the entrepreneurs, if there are at the rate of 50% chance of signing the term sheets it means you’re doing well. But for Hornik he has offered 28 term sheets to the entrepreneurs and 25 of them has …show more content…

Let’s figure out why givers dominate the top of the success ladder. Here are some studies and stories that would enlighten how giving can be more powerful, and less risky than most people believed. There are a lot of different kinds of people that we don’t think that they are givers and we do always taking something to them. As said to the book they are the consultants, lawyers, doctors, engineers, salespeople, writers, entrepreneurs, accountants, teachers, financial advisers, and sports executives. This kind of people are the givers that succeed later. Having the possibility that those who give first are often best positioned for success later. This people are at the bottom of the ladder which are not in a hurry for attaining the success. They just want to give and share their knowledge, talent, and strategies to others that who wants to receive it. But there are some givers who avoid the bottom success of ladder. As far as we think that givers are nice and generous. But they are not as always as that. Givers are being ambitious as takers and matchers. They have different ways on achieving their goals. Givers, Takers, and Matchers has all the desire to achieve success. They have all different perception and ways to attain success. When givers win, people are happy and supporting them because they have given help

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