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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... -
What Venture Trends Can Tell You
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew research from McKinsey suggests what the inevitable shakeout in the venture capital industry heralds for the broader business community. -
More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch suggests they're likely to be disappointed. -
Dear Entrepreneur: Think Cash, Not Ideas
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleLast week NBA legend-turned-entrepreneur Magic Johnson sold his Starbucks franchises back to the corporation for a reported $75 million. Rumor has it,... -
Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleLessons from the founder of Schmidt's Naturals. -
Don't Take Money from VCs Until You've Asked 4 Questions
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDue diligence should go both ways. -
Corporate VCs Are Moving the Goalposts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the traditional approach to venture capital, an investment firm parcels out funds to a portfolio of start-ups, knowing that most will fail but that... -
Second Thoughts On Going Public
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleWhether, when, and how to take a family or individually owned company public are decisions that have faced a great many entrepreneurs. They have taken actions that have brought happiness and fulfillment to some and unhappiness to others. Perhaps people who are presently reflecting on such dilemmas can draw some useful thoughts from a study […] -
Stretch the Mission? (HBR Case Study)
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... -
Entrepreneurs vs. Executives at Socaba.com (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIt's been four years since Dave Souza, Joe Castle, and Ryan Bahar started Socaba.com--an e-business that sells office supplies and services. Six months... -
Making Sense of Corporate Venture Capital
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleLarge companies have long sensed the potential value of investing in external start-ups, but more often than not, they fail to get it right. Remember... -
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... -
The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleHow investors can start seeing more opportunities. -
What Western Investors Want from African Entrepreneurs
Global Business Digital ArticleLeadership matters more than the business model. -
How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's more global, more urban, and more winner-take-all. -
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... -
How to Size Up a Negotiation
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn one of my posts last year, I shared a framework for more effective negotiations. The first step of the framework described the need for pre-negotiation... -
How the VC Pitch Process Is Failing Female Entrepreneurs
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleAnd why it needs to end. -
Mezzanine Money for Smaller Businesses
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleA mezzanine financing package may be the right thing for a small business that is having trouble finding long-term capital to finance its growth. Mezzanine...
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Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
Savage Beast (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details For several months, things had been spiraling downwards at Savage Beast, the music-recommendation company started three years before by Tim Westergren.... -
Note on Valuing a Biotech Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note discusses the methods and factors that investment bankers and venture capitalists take into account when placing a value on the shares... -
Village Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Matt Harris, general partner and founder of Village Ventures, a nationwide umbrella organization for VC firms in secondary cities, is about to negotiate... -
edocs, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes the development of edocs, an Internet company aimed at revolutionizing the on-line bill presentment market. Kevin Laracey must negotiate a venture... -
Equilibrium Capital Group: Investing in Energy Efficiency
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Venture capitalists Bill Campbell and Kipp Baratoff have a decision to make. They can either invest their hard-earned capital in one of two existing energy... -
Chrysalis Capital: Venture Capital in an Emerging Market
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the founding and early development of an Indian venture capital firm. Focuses on the opportunity in the Indian high-technology sector, how the... -
Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial... -
The Business Model of a University Research Lab
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case study teaches students how to think through the management of open innovation in the context of a different setting such as a university research... -
Aspect Ventures
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Yale University Investments Office: August 2006, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Yale Investments Office must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments--hedge funds, private... -
New Enterprise Associates
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details NEA was established in 1977 and it subsequently morphed into one of the largest venture capital firms in the world. Despite its size and significance,... -
Chasm Security: Facing the Technology Startup's Dilemmas (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case (C) introduces the latest progress of Chasm Security as of the end of 2018. It then poses a very inspiring question to comprehensively summarize... -
Milliway Capital: Battening Down the Hatches
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether... -
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo, Portuguese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue... -
Millennial Net
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Millennial Net created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks, a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was... -
Oltre Venture: The Impact Revolution (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the start-up and early operation of a novel impact investing firm in Italy: Oltre Venture. Oltre Venture, which defines itself as... -
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses... -
Movirtu's Cloud Phone Service: Funding a Base-of-the-Pyramid Venture
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Who are the right investors for a for-profit company targeting the world's poor? Before this start-up spends hundreds of hours pursuing venture capital... -
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...
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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... -
State of the Incubator Marketspace
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Other Article995.00View Details This research report provides an in-depth analysis of business incubators. The rise and proliferation of incubators (an umbrella term for any organization... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
Savage Beast (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details For several months, things had been spiraling downwards at Savage Beast, the music-recommendation company started three years before by Tim Westergren.... -
Note on Valuing a Biotech Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note discusses the methods and factors that investment bankers and venture capitalists take into account when placing a value on the shares... -
Village Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Matt Harris, general partner and founder of Village Ventures, a nationwide umbrella organization for VC firms in secondary cities, is about to negotiate... -
edocs, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes the development of edocs, an Internet company aimed at revolutionizing the on-line bill presentment market. Kevin Laracey must negotiate a venture... -
Equilibrium Capital Group: Investing in Energy Efficiency
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Venture capitalists Bill Campbell and Kipp Baratoff have a decision to make. They can either invest their hard-earned capital in one of two existing energy... -
What Venture Trends Can Tell You
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew research from McKinsey suggests what the inevitable shakeout in the venture capital industry heralds for the broader business community.