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How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleSpecial purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they've taken off in the... -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
Bringing Silicon Valley Inside
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleIn Silicon Valley, exciting new business ideas rapidly attract capital and talent away from less worthy ventures. But in big companies, ideas, capital, and talent are stagnant—prisoners of traditional bureaucratic ways of allocating resources. To capture the Valley’s entrepreneurial magic, your company needs to move from resource allocation to resource attraction. -
Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThere are two views on entrepreneurship in America: the first (largely feigned), that it is a pure virtue like freedom of speech or religion, and the second (real) attitude that it is largely a game for the naïve. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and […] -
Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?
Strategy & Execution ResearchA study of 42 leveraged buyouts produced surprising findings that should guide policy reforms. -
When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTo succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and... -
Can a Volunteer-Staffed Company Scale? (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAn education-gaming firm that has relied largely on volunteer developers has to rethink this strategy as it prepares to pitch investors for a new round... -
The Road to Crowdfunding Hell
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleCrowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare... -
The Comprehensive Case for Investing More VC Money in Women-Led Startups
Venture capital Digital ArticleAnd for hiring more female investors. -
Private Equity Should Take the Lead in Sustainability
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHere’s how. -
Making Sense of Corporate Venture Capital
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleCompanies have, at best, a mixed record funding start-ups. A new framework, simple in design but powerful in application, can help identify the investments that will yield a return that matters—strategic growth. -
The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns
Consumer behavior Digital ArticleHow investors can start seeing more opportunities. -
The Unique Value of Crowdfunding Is Not Money — It’s Community
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleNew products need both. -
For Founders, Preparation Trumps Passion
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleWhy enthusiasm in entrepreneurs is overrated
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Board Director Dilemmas-New Year, New Timing
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on a junior partner at a private equity (PE) firm who sits on the board of one of the firm's portfolio companies. In the case, the board... -
Entrepreneurship Reading: Partnering with Venture Capitalists
15.90View Details This Reading takes a deep look at the venture capital (VC) industry in the United States. VCs have a unique perspective on opportunity evaluation, deal... -
IFC Asset Management Company: Mobilizing Capital for Development
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) creative and effective use of the private equity business model as a tool to mobilize... -
Dementia Discovery Fund
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After the British government searched for a venture capital organization to create a new dementia fund, it selected SV Health, a UK- and US-based healthcare... -
UpDown: Confidential Instructions for GEORG
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Michael Reich is having severe doubts about how he split the equity with his co-founders two months ago, when they completed a one-page "November Agreement."... -
Upli: Financial Health Appiness (C)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This field-based case set uses qualitative and quantitative research during the early stages of app development to unfold circumstances that allow for... -
Wagholi Apartment Project: Restructuring a Private Equity Investment in Real Estate
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case is written from the perspective of a decision-maker at a private equity investment fund. The case is set in India, where a large corpus of capital... -
Marv Tseu at Active Reasoning
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of an early-stage software company. The company has made considerable progress in developing... -
Warner Music Group
Finance & Accounting Case Study14.00View Details TH Lee, a leading private equity firm, needs to decide whether to commit to the acquisition of AOL Time Warner's music group, and whether to commit the... -
Dating Ring
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, the co-founders of Dating Ring, an online dating startup that relied on human matchmakers to arrange dates between its members, were deciding... -
Stanford Management Company in 2017: Venture Capital and Other Asset Allocation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Greg Milani, Senior Managing Director of the Stanford Management Company, considers how much of Stanford's $27 billion endowment to allocate to early... -
ONSET Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details ONSET Ventures, is a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage start-ups. Describes the principles and strategies the firm has developed over its life.... -
R&R, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Outlines alternative mechanisms for getting into business. Shows the means by which an experienced entrepreneur can gain control over the necessary resources... -
Gracious Eloise: What Do Angels Want? (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Eloise Bune successfully turned an idea into a product, but could she persuade angel investors that she had a business worth investing in? The case details... -
Project Bravo - Target Information
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case IN1784 -
OCP Africa: Building Ecosystems For Sustainability
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The OCP Africa illustrates the challenges of entering a market challenged by unfavorable conditions for the target customer - be it infrastructure, access... -
Zipcar: Refining the Business Model, Japanese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Zipcar is a start-up organized around the idea of "sharing" car usage via a membership organization. This case describes several iterations of the Zipcar... -
Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge, Video
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study150.00View Details Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders,... -
Glassdoor: The Fundraising Journey (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details From his time as a young engineer at Microsoft in 1993, to the challenge of building Glassdoor from the ground up until it reached a valuation of over...
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How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleSpecial purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they've taken off in the... -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice at 40, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 819055. -
Board Director Dilemmas-New Year, New Timing
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on a junior partner at a private equity (PE) firm who sits on the board of one of the firm's portfolio companies. In the case, the board...