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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... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Venture capital Magazine ArticleAn inside look at an opaque process -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
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 […] -
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. -
A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleWith a venture buyout, an established company partners with a VC firm to spin out an internal startup. -
When It’s OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision
Venture capital Digital ArticleMore data isn’t always helpful. -
More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch suggests they're likely to be disappointed. -
Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing
Venture capital Digital Article“Alright, you caught us. We’re actually not making any money. In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.” This is the essence of Groupon’s declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon’s profits before subtracting […] -
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,... -
Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleBased on a study of 918 Israeli companies. -
Is Corporate Venture Capital Right for Your Startup?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleHow entrepreneurs can decide whether to pursue corporate funding, and if so, which CVC to pick. -
Unbalanced Boards
Boards Magazine ArticleWhen high-tech start-ups go public, their boards tend to be dominated by company executives and venture capitalists. That creates dangers for public shareholders—and for the companies themselves. -
Don't Take Money from VCs Until You've Asked 4 Questions
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDue diligence should go both ways. -
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. -
There Are Only Two Types of Venture-Backed Companies
Venture capital Digital ArticleWhat type is yours? -
VCs' Strange, Instinctual Need to Replace Founders
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleData show that replacing a founder often destroys value. So why is it such a common practice? -
The Social Sector Needs to Take More Risk and Accept Failure
Social enterprise Digital ArticleTake a cue from venture capital and increase the appetite for taking chances. -
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 […] -
The Road to Crowdfunding Hell
Venture capital 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 and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012. But the crowdfunding jewel is fool’s gold, and is […]
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MOVE Guides (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition... -
Antler
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the founding, development, and scaling of Antler, an early-stage investment platform that invests in entrepreneurs pre-team and, in... -
Held Hostage in the 21st Century: Cybersecurity, Ransomware, and Crisis Management (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values.... -
ELITE: AFFINITY FINANCING AND SMART LEASES
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case documents the original mattress leasing program initiated by François Pugliese, the owner of premium mattress firm Elite in Etoy (Switzerland).... -
Statements of Cash Flows: Three Examples, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case introduces the statement of cash flow through three examples of multi-year statements of cash flows from three unidentified companies. -
Altos Ventures (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In December 2012, Altos Ventures General Partners Han Kim, Anthony Lee, and Ho Nam met to discuss the future of the firm. Altos had already adjusted its... -
Globant: Going Public
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Multi Media Mapping Ltd Case (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details It was early October 2007 as Sean Phelan, founder of Multi Media Mapping Ltd, reviewed the previous 12 months. It had been a year of highs and lows that... -
Multi Media Mapping Ltd Case (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details It was nearly 10 years since Multi Media Mapping Ltd had gone live with the launch of the Multimap.com website and Sean Phelan, founder and majority shareholder,... -
Prediction Machines, Updated and Expanded: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Strategy & Execution Book30.00View Details The impact AI will have is profound, but the economic framework for understanding it is surprisingly simple. Artificial intelligence seems to do the impossible,... -
Going for Global: Building a Winning Private Equity Platform at Canada's Largest Pension Fund, CPP Investments
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case explores the direct investment strategy of CPP Investments, one of the largest and most influential pension funds and private equity investors... -
Israel Secondary Fund (ISF): Completing venture capital in the start-up nation
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case documents the genesis and development of Israel Secondary Fund (ISF), an innovative venture capital secondary fund operating in Israel, a country... -
Openspace Ventures: Sustainable Venture Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case describes a successful Singapore-based venture capital (VC) firm, Openspace Ventures, and its decision to incorporate elements of sustainable... -
MAYA Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details MAYA Capital co-founders Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro raised $41.5 million through a series of closings for their early-stage Latin American venture... -
Green Bond Research Note
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Green bonds are bond issues, used to finance new or existing projects, whose proceeds are exclusively applied to financing projects or businesses that... -
Yale Investments Office: November 2020
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View 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... -
Fondeadora
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Norman Müller and René Serrano, cofounders of Fondeadora, a Mexican "neobank," had lined up a $12.5 million in Series A funding round in 2020 only to... -
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions... -
Precision Parts, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Contains a description of a decision confronting two entrepreneurs in mid-1981. They are considering purchasing a small manufacturer of precision electromechanical... -
Heidi Roizen, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Heidi Roizen, a venture capitalist at SOFTBANK Venture Capital and a former entrepreneur, maintains an extensive personal and professional network. She...
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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... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Venture capital Magazine ArticleAn inside look at an opaque process -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
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 […] -
MOVE Guides (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition... -
Antler
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the founding, development, and scaling of Antler, an early-stage investment platform that invests in entrepreneurs pre-team and, in... -
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. -
A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleWith a venture buyout, an established company partners with a VC firm to spin out an internal startup. -
When It’s OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision
Venture capital Digital ArticleMore data isn’t always helpful. -
Held Hostage in the 21st Century: Cybersecurity, Ransomware, and Crisis Management (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values....