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Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
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How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
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How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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Nonprofit Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus
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Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
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What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
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For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost
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Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment
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AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
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How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
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How to Attract the Right Shareholders
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What You Need to Know as a Young, Black Startup Founder
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Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
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Why Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Should Use Their Money for Fundraising
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Waze: Product Evolution and Fundraising
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Waze successfully developed a free smartphone mapping application that gave consumers turn-by-turn directions and real-time traffic data. This digital... -
Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (D)
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Tea Leaf Trust: Providing More Than Education
Management Case Study11.95View Details Tea Leaf Trust (TLT), a non-profit vocational training centre, worked to develop young students into emotionally resilient change agents within their... -
Tezos: Governance in the Cryptocurrency World
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In November 2017, Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, the founders of Tezos, confronted a governance crisis that threatened to destroy their project and expose... -
Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (C)
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Shining a Ray of Hope Through COVID-19
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VC Decision-Making in India: Aavishkaar and Milk Mantra (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The case profiles the protagonist, Vineet Rai, managing partner of Aavishkaar Venture Management Services (an Indian, early stage VC firm with a focus... -
Sigma Ventures: Evaluating an Early-Stage Venture Capital Investment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details Sigma Ventures is a venture capital (VC) firm that invests in technology, intelligent manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer services companies in their... -
Calyx Capital Partners
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Luxola to Sephora Online: Opportunities in Beauty
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Canadian Cancer Society: Fundraising Controversy
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CircleUp in 2019: Investing in the Future
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Flying the Coop: TeleSign's Incubator Exit
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Navigating an Eternal Ocean: EnerGaia's Emergent Strategy in the Market for Spirulina
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Acumen Fund and Embrace: From the Leading Edge of Social Venture Investing
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Venus Medtech: Global Innovation in the Race Between China and the U.S.A.
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Glassdoor: The Fundraising Journey (B)
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The Future of SuperApps: Can We Live with Our Investor? (Part C)
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Adams Capital Management: Fund IV
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The partners of Adams Capital Management must decide whether to start their fourth fund in early 2006 or to hold off until they have realized more exits...
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Waze: Product Evolution and Fundraising
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Waze successfully developed a free smartphone mapping application that gave consumers turn-by-turn directions and real-time traffic data. This digital... -
Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (D)
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
Tea Leaf Trust: Providing More Than Education
Management Case Study11.95View Details Tea Leaf Trust (TLT), a non-profit vocational training centre, worked to develop young students into emotionally resilient change agents within their... -
Tezos: Governance in the Cryptocurrency World
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In November 2017, Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, the founders of Tezos, confronted a governance crisis that threatened to destroy their project and expose... -
Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Shining a Ray of Hope Through COVID-19
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case is set in November 2020. Despite COVID-19, Ray of Hope (ROH), a crowdfunding charity in Singapore had grown crowdfunded donations for their... -
VC Decision-Making in India: Aavishkaar and Milk Mantra (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The case profiles the protagonist, Vineet Rai, managing partner of Aavishkaar Venture Management Services (an Indian, early stage VC firm with a focus... -
Sigma Ventures: Evaluating an Early-Stage Venture Capital Investment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details Sigma Ventures is a venture capital (VC) firm that invests in technology, intelligent manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer services companies in their... -
Calyx Capital Partners
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the formation of Trista Engel and Jessica Markowitz's search fund. It begins by describing their process for deciding if they should...