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More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat
Venture capital Digital ArticleResearch suggests they’re likely to be disappointed. -
We Recorded VCs' Conversations and Analyzed How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFindings from a language analysis study in Sweden. -
How to Launch a Startup in the Post-Covid Era
Global Business Digital ArticleUnderstand the market and the needs of the consumer to stay in the game. -
Women-Led Startups Received Just 2.3% of VC Funding in 2020
Gender Digital ArticleIn a year of uncertainty, VCs acted like funding female founders was risky — but the real risk is in leaving them behind. -
Good Money After Bad?
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleJack Brandon’s initial idea has not panned out, and the cash is nearly gone. But he’s got a new plan. Will you back him a second time? -
Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship is more celebrated, studied, and desirable than ever. Business school students flock to courses on entrepreneurship. Managers, fearful of losing their step on the corporate ladder, yearn to step off on their own. Policymakers pin their hopes for job creation and economic growth on start-ups rather than on the once-preeminent corporate giants. Belief in […] -
Samsung's Corporate Venturing Strategy
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleMark Twain is supposed to have said that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." It's apparently a belief shared by many stock market analysts,... -
The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over
Venture capital Digital ArticleHere’s what that means for VCs and entrepreneurs. -
There Are Only Two Types of Venture-Backed Companies
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Social/Tech Entrepreneurs’ Identity Crisis
Venture capital Digital ArticleEditor’s note: This week, in the run-up to the 2010 PopTech conference, we’ll be running posts from PopTech’s 2010 class of Social Innovation Fellows. This is the second in that series. Starting a non-profit tech company with the mission to mobilize a social movement certainly has its challenges. Friendfactor, a joint project of two nonprofits […] -
Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt made the "spray and pray" approach more common. -
Behind Venture Capital's Scenes with Jeff Bussgang
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleI recently sat down with Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital to talk about his new book, Mastering the VC Game, an insider's view into the venture capital... -
The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleIt’s easy to turn off prospective investors. Just feed them the same old lines. -
Corporate Venturing
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleMore and more smart companies are going VC to find their next breakthroughs. -
A Stealthier Way to Raise Money
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhen entrepreneurs get financing from big VC firms, they often lose control over their idea and their business. An increasing number are unwilling to make that deal. -
A Quiet Revolution in Clean Energy Finance
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleBetween 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail). Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments […] -
FTX and the Problem of Unchecked Founder Power
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleGrowing quickly requires giving up some control. It’s investors’ responsibility to make sure that happens. -
Too Soon to IPO?
Accounting Magazine ArticleThe market for IPOs is still open, and Titrolyte’s new titanium extraction technology has blockbuster potential. Will a public offering yield fool’s gold for the founders—or the real thing? -
Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBased on a study of 918 Israeli companies. -
In Search of the Next Big Thing
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticlePhotography: Timothy Archibald Marc Andreessen knows both sides of the start-up game. As freshly minted university graduates in the 1990s, he and his partners went hat in hand to venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to fund their new project, the breakthrough web browser Netscape Navigator. Within 18 months the enterprise had gone public and Andreessen […]
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Evaluating the Social Value of Impact Investments: Vox Capital and Magnamed
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Vox Capital was a pioneer as an impact investment company in Brazil, with the purpose of creating a world where businesses can generate positive social... -
Freeletics: Strategic Corporate Venturing in a Digital Scale-Up
Management Case Study11.95View Details Going through a dynamic market change with increased user growth and competition, the digital fitness scale-up Freeletics GmbH (Freeletics) found itself... -
Aptera: The Future of Financing (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Aptera is on its second life. It originally began as a VC-backed electric car company in the 1990s. But that first life ended badly, as the company could... -
Yale Investments Office: November 2020
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments-hedge... -
The WeWork SPAC
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details WeWork, a fast-growing but unprofitable real estate firm headquartered in New York, which leased shared office space around the world, announced in September... -
How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Four venture capitalists from leading Silicon Valley firms are interviewed about the frameworks they use to evaluate potential venture opportunities.... -
World Innovation Lab - WiL: Transforming Japanese Corporations
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case features a protagonist (Gen Isayama - GSB 2003) who established and runs a VC firm/incubator called World Innovation Lab (WiL) that is based... -
Pear Venture Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Keith Bender, Principal at Pear Venture Capital, is working over the weekend to prepare for a Monday morning investment meeting. He has three startup... -
DexAI
Management Case Study11.95View Details During a challenging fundraising environment, the DexAI founders received two term sheets with nearly identical economic terms but very different legal... -
The Black New Venture Competition
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Black entrepreneurs encounter many unique obstacles when raising capital to start and grow a business. During their second year at Harvard Business School... -
Codecademy: Where to Next?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In March 2020, Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO of online education platform Codecademy, prepared for a meeting with his Chief of Staff Kunal Ahuja to discuss... -
Global Deep Technology Startup Stories
Management Case Study11.95View Details Across the globe, inspiring startup founders are creating a meaningful impact on people's lives and generating economic growth through new applications... -
Equalture: Expanding a Software Business Dedicated to Unbiased Hiring
Management Case Study11.95View Details Equalture is a recruitment software company, founded by twin sisters Charlotte and Fleur Melkert in 2018. Equalture's software has proven to be less prone... -
On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical... -
Camber Creek & Measurabl Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In late 2017, Camber Creek, a real estate technology focused venture capital firm, had to evaluate a potential investment in Measurabl Inc. which provides... -
Institutionalized Entrepreneurship: Flagship Pioneering
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Flagship Pioneering, located in Cambridge, MA, was founded in 2000 to create ventures focused on solving unprecedented problems in the life sciences.... -
Pearson Affordable Learning Fund
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company,... -
FlexShyft: Term Sheet Negotiation (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case describes a fictional company, FlexShyft, as its cofounders navigate and negotiate the terms of an offer to invest in the company's Series B... -
Emergence, Valhalla, and Orchid: Divergent Models for Venture Capital Funds
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Compares and contrasts three different venture capital funds from the perspective of a potential investor. The first fund has a technology-enabled services... -
Raising capital for Financial Butler (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This case focuses on Nick Hungerford's attempt to raise capital for his FinTech start-up, Financial Butler, (later renamed Nutmeg). The concept is a digital...
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More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat
Venture capital Digital ArticleResearch suggests they’re likely to be disappointed. -
We Recorded VCs' Conversations and Analyzed How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFindings from a language analysis study in Sweden. -
How to Launch a Startup in the Post-Covid Era
Global Business Digital ArticleUnderstand the market and the needs of the consumer to stay in the game. -
Evaluating the Social Value of Impact Investments: Vox Capital and Magnamed
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Vox Capital was a pioneer as an impact investment company in Brazil, with the purpose of creating a world where businesses can generate positive social... -
Freeletics: Strategic Corporate Venturing in a Digital Scale-Up
Management Case Study11.95View Details Going through a dynamic market change with increased user growth and competition, the digital fitness scale-up Freeletics GmbH (Freeletics) found itself... -
Women-Led Startups Received Just 2.3% of VC Funding in 2020
Gender Digital ArticleIn a year of uncertainty, VCs acted like funding female founders was risky — but the real risk is in leaving them behind. -
Good Money After Bad?
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleJack Brandon’s initial idea has not panned out, and the cash is nearly gone. But he’s got a new plan. Will you back him a second time? -
Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship is more celebrated, studied, and desirable than ever. Business school students flock to courses on entrepreneurship. Managers, fearful of losing their step on the corporate ladder, yearn to step off on their own. Policymakers pin their hopes for job creation and economic growth on start-ups rather than on the once-preeminent corporate giants. Belief in […] -
Aptera: The Future of Financing (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Aptera is on its second life. It originally began as a VC-backed electric car company in the 1990s. But that first life ended badly, as the company could... -
Samsung's Corporate Venturing Strategy
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleMark Twain is supposed to have said that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." It's apparently a belief shared by many stock market analysts,...