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The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
Strategy for Start-ups, Arabic Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship SpotlightSome start-up founders follow a business plan; others operate by the seat of their pants. This package looks at how entrepreneurs can carefully craft... -
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,... -
The Founder’s Dilemma
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. -
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... -
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. -
Increase the Odds of Your Start-Up's Success
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive tips to make profitability more likely. -
When Start-ups Should (and Shouldn't) Partner with Industry Leaders
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA lesson from Jeff Bezos and the space industry. -
The Founder of Chewy.com on Finding the Financing to Achieve Scale
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAs author Ryan Cohen was on the verge of launching an online jewelry business with cofounder Michael Day, he had a revelation: He was standing in a local... -
When Your Start-Up Should Walk Away from a Deal
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleSome great offers carry hidden costs. -
How a Start-Up Can Succeed in a Mature Category
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLet the data be your guide. -
Five Ways to Innovate Faster
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleTo accelerate your search for a viable new growth model, start with the two-pizza rule. -
Sketch Out Your Hypothesis
This business model canvas lets you look at all nine building blocks of your company on one page. Alexander Osterwalder shows how it's done, using Nespresso... -
Tilray's CEO on Becoming the First Mover in a Controversial Industry
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe author was working at a Silicon Valley bank in 2010 when some entrepreneurs pitched him on a "medical-cannabis technology company." He didn't know... -
Think of Start-ups as Shots on Goal
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Whiteboard Session: What Is an Emerging Market?
Global Business VideoThe promise and peril of institutional voids. -
Blitzscaling
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleReid Hoffman is one of Silicon Valley's grown-ups. After helping to found PayPal, he moved on to launch LinkedIn in 2002--an endeavor that turned him... -
Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt’s in founders’ best interests to not only accept, but invite, oversight.
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Farmery: Scaling a Start-Up in an Emerging Economy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Farmery's mission was to supply fresh, pure cow's milk, to households in the National Capital Region of India within 24 hours of milking. After two years... -
Clothing Chris and Chrissie
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Panoramic Power
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Sprout Solutions
Management Case Study8.95View Details Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management... -
Analytical Space: The Next Frontier?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details With one satellite aloft and in the midst of beta testing in late 2018, Analytical Space founders Justin Oliveira and Dan Nevius turned to critical questions... -
Jibo: A Social Robot for the Home
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In January 2015, Jibo Inc. had completed a raise of $25.3 million in Series A financing after a successful 2014 crowdfunding campaign for pre-orders of... -
Alpha and Omega, Spanish Version
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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... -
MicroFridge, Chinese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details MicroFridge, a five-year-old, $12 million company based in Sharon, Mass., develops and sells a unique, combination compact refrigerator and microwave... -
Rahama Wright and Shea Yeleen
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Rahama Wright and Shea Yeleen is the story of a young female social entrepreneur, Rahama Wright, who started a non-profit venture, Shea Yeleen, to train... -
TaKaDu, Russian Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli... -
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... -
Domotec (C): 2006-2011, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Domotec was a small company devoted to home automation in Montevideo, Uruguay. Building automation involves a set of control and automation systems that... -
Lobbying at eCab
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Erin Jones' ridesharing startup in her mid-sized hometown is finally picking up. She's hoping to reach a sustainable scale so that she can sell to a large... -
MyT Brewer (A)
Management Case Study8.95View Details Amit Kasliwal was a participant of the Post Graduate Program for Executives at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2013 when he came up with... -
Linkfluence: Building on ActSocial's Relationships
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2008 in Singapore and China, ActSocial was a social marketing company that initially provided brands with word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing services.... -
Disruptive Technology a Heartbeat Away: Ecton, Inc., Japanese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes an innovating start-up company with a disruptive technology to the large, expensive echocardiography machines that leading cardiologists use... -
Average is Beautiful: An Opportunity Worth Pursuing?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Nickolay Lamm, a recent university graduate, has been interested in entrepreneurship since his childhood. After running two small start-ups as a teen,... -
Silicon Fen
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The region around Cambridge, England (known colloquially as Silicon Fen) is home to a cluster of high-tech startups and established businesses. It has... -
Sirona Hygiene Private Limited: Branding in an Intimate Hygiene Space
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Sirona Hygiene Private Limited (Sirona Hygiene) started operations in 2015 with its launch of PeeBuddy-a portable urination device for women. For Sirona...
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The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
Strategy for Start-ups, Arabic Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship SpotlightSome start-up founders follow a business plan; others operate by the seat of their pants. This package looks at how entrepreneurs can carefully craft... -
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,... -
The Founder’s Dilemma
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. -
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... -
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. -
Farmery: Scaling a Start-Up in an Emerging Economy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Farmery's mission was to supply fresh, pure cow's milk, to households in the National Capital Region of India within 24 hours of milking. After two years... -
Clothing Chris and Chrissie
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details