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Everything You (Don't) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany built-in problems and risks await the entrepreneur who is searching for capital. Being aware of the realities can help - realities like that raising... -
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... -
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... -
What Western Investors Want from African Entrepreneurs
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Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleLessons from the founder of Schmidt's Naturals. -
Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleKeep control of your company. -
Stretch the Mission? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe founder of a nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs must decide whether she should bring her program to the United States. Expert commentary... -
Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBeing clear on what it means is not just an academic exercise. -
Is Venture Capital Broken?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. The report,... -
Take the Money--or Run? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePetrolink's business plan looks like a winner. At present, the only available pipeline for operators in the Baltic Sea's newly developed Helmark gas field... -
Take the Money--or Run? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePetrolink's business plan looks like a winner. At present, the only available pipeline for operators in the Baltic Sea's newly developed Helmark gas field... -
Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDoes high-quality venture financing increase the success of funded ventures? My co-authors, Josh Lerner of HBS and Antoinette Schoar of MIT, and I define... -
Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop
Organizational Development Digital ArticleRealizing the full potential of this evolving sector requires three things. -
A Call for Innovation in Job Creation
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe Gulf oil spill looks like it might be capped. U.S. financial regulation is underway, plugging holes of another kind, which won't allow sub-prime mortgage... -
Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?
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Dream Deferred: The Story of a High-Tech Entrepreneur in a Low-Tech World
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAdesemi, an American start-up in Africa, had been trying for six years to blanket the developing world with desperately needed wireless communications... -
Corporate Venturing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies... -
Use Customer Cash to Finance Your Start-Up
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMore and more tech-oriented start-ups are using "negative working capital"--cash received from customers in advance--to finance their businesses, freeing... -
How Venture Capitalists Really Assess A Pitch
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHaving worked for two VC firms before entering academia, Lakshmi Balachandra was mystified: Why did a proposal that looked so promising on paper become... -
Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt's a better long-term strategy.
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
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... -
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... -
Fairview Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Fairview Capital is a pioneering alternative assets investment manager, as it is the first U.S. private equity fund of funds that focused on investing... -
ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp. (A): March 1991
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp., a development-stage biotechnology company, is considering making an initial offering of common stock. The diverse perspectives... -
Integral Vision Ltd. (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Benjamin Rosen and Compaq
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Addresses the challenges faced by Ben Rosen and the company board of directors as continuing problems force it to make a decision about the ongoing governance... -
Note on Corporate Venture Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of corporate venture investment. -
Alchemist Accelerator
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Alchemist Accelerator follows the story of Ravi Belani, founder and Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator, as he leads one of the leading enterprise-focused... -
Eastwind Trading Co. (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Describes the aftermath of the (A) case. Describes the actions taken and the possible consequences for the company and its principals. Also describes... -
Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide whether to make a loan to Avid, a small but promising venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal,... -
JetBlue Airways: Starting from Scratch
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details JetBlue Airways shows how an entrepreneurial venture is able to use human resource management, specifically a values-centered approach to managing people,... -
Maricopa, Inc.: Finding the Right Treatment for Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The founders of Maricopa, Inc., a startup that sold proprietery hair-care products directly to salons, were preparing a board presentation to address... -
Zenefits Board of Directors (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In early 2018, the time seemed right for Zenefits investor and director Lars Dalgaard to reflect on whether Zenefits had the right board of directors... -
Tympani Board
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Mike Tarkington, a partner at Reality Venture Partners, must recommend a course of action to his colleague, Steve Bonhomme. Bonhomme is trying to decide...
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Everything You (Don't) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany built-in problems and risks await the entrepreneur who is searching for capital. Being aware of the realities can help - realities like that raising... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
MuMaté, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThis teaching note is designed for use with "MuMaté: Funding Growth," "MuMaté (B-1): Confidential for Maxwell," "MuMaté (B-2): Confidential for Cantor,"... -
iZumi, Teaching Note
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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... -
Sierra Capital Partners, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for E358. -
GENICON: Keep Growing or Sell the Company? - Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for W14506. -
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...