Exclamation International Inc‪.‬

The president of exclamation.com, Canada's first Internet incubator, must assess a number of strategic alternatives for the company before meeting with his partners. There are four issues that the company needs to resolve: (1) Should exclamation raise funds through a public listing, or continue to manage and finance the incubator as a private corporation? (2) Should it develop business in the European Internet market or focus on North America? (3) Should the partners rely on externally generated business plans as the company's pipeline for ideas or develop their own business ideas into stand-alone operating companies? (4) Should exclamation push to further develop the business plans it had already identified as potential winners, or should it first focus on building the incubator itself?