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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... -
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... -
Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop
Organizational Development Digital ArticleRealizing the full potential of this evolving sector requires three things. -
Good Money After Bad? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleChristian Harbinson, a young associate at the venture capital firm Scharfstein Weekes, has a difficult decision to make before the next investment committee... -
Six Myths About Venture Capitalists
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAs the director of private equity for the Kauffman Foundation and a former venture capitalist, Mulcahy has observed the industry closely. In 2012 she... -
You Can Negotiate with Venture Capitalists
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleBusiness owners who have found venture capitalists (VCs) willing to put money into their companies may be tempted to take the money on any terms. Because... -
Bringing Silicon Valley Inside (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn 1998, Silicon Valley companies produced 41 IPOs, which by January 1999 had a combined market capitalization of $27 billion--that works out to $54,000... -
Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEver wondered how entrepreneurs convince VCs to fund their businesses? A leading venture capitalist delivers the inside scoop on what not to say. -
How the Market Ruined Twitter
Communication Digital ArticleNow it's just a company trying to make money. -
Changing Fashion: An Interview with Gilt Groupe Founder Alexandra Wilkis Wilson
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleOn a recent trip to New York, I sat down with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Gilt Groupe, a site that brings designer... -
How Much Money Does Your New Venture Need?
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurs should compile a financial forecast that includes three elements: an income statement, a balance sheet, and a cash flow statement. Forecasts... -
Don't Expect New Crowdfunding Rules to Create a Startup Boom
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleSeed funding isn't in short supply. -
Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt made the "spray and pray" approach more common. -
We Recorded VCs' Conversations and Analyzed How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFindings from a language analysis study in Sweden. -
Entrepreneurs vs. Executives at Socaba.com (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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... -
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... -
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... -
How to Live with Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although... -
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...
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Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Before he accepts the new CEO position, Dick Williams wants founder Lew Cirne to step down as chairman. While considering Williams' incredible demand,... -
PunchTab, Inc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details PunchTab was a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2011 that was developing an Internet-based turnkey customer loyalty program for website owners, mobile... -
Chengwei Ventures and the hdt Investment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Bo Feng, cofounder and principal in Chengwei Ventures, one of the first sovereign venture capital firms in China, is trying to decide on the proper business... -
Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four ventures, two were sold, one... -
Francisco Partners
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Francisco Partners (which focuses on buyouts of high-technology firms) aims to be the largest first-time fund ever raised. The rationales for the fund,... -
ChatChat (VC Version)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This is a role-play case, intended for use in a leadership development course for MBA students. The case has four roles: two for students playing the... -
Sociable Labs B
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Sociable Labs was conceived as a start-up business attempting to use friend recommendations to curate and recommend purchase opportunities on the internet.... -
Yale University Investments Office: June 2003
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... -
Gobi Partners: October 2004
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The general partners of Gobi Partners, a venture fund located in Shanghai, are trying to decide the best way to raise money for their first fund. Their... -
GO Corp.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details GO faces a crisis in March 1991 when Microsoft announces the introduction of a competing operating system for pen-based computers. GO's managers must... -
Accelerating Russia: The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) is a venture capital (VC) fund plus start-up accelerator launched in 2013 by Russia's Agency for Strategic... -
ARCH Venture Partners: November 1993
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details ARCH Venture Partners has successfully managed a venture fund and technology transfer organization for the University of Chicago for the past five years.... -
Eastwind Trading Co. (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Two professional women are contemplating a business venture. They must assess the nature of the opportunity, what options it opens if they are to pursue... -
Broadway Angels (2022)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group's future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena... -
NeoGenius Co., Ltd.
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details NeoGenius Co., Ltd. (NeoGenius) is an early stage entrepreneurial venture based in South Korea. Founded in February 2000, NeoGenius provides a wide range... -
NatuRi Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details NatuRi Corp. was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from the byproducts of rice bran oil production.... -
Li & Fung (A): Beyond
Global Business Case Study6.95View Details In early 1998, William and Victor Fung had to review their business, the Li & Fung Group, to plan for the next three years. Examines strategic and organizational... -
Yieldex (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Yieldex Founder, Doug Cosman, is faced with the decision to sell his young software start-up for $4 million or to hire a CEO (Tom Shields) and pursue... -
Sierra Capital Partners
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Brontes Technologies--2005
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes a set of decisions confronting the founders of a company developing a new device for taking three-dimensional pictures of teeth in order to...
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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... -
Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Before he accepts the new CEO position, Dick Williams wants founder Lew Cirne to step down as chairman. While considering Williams' incredible demand,... -
PunchTab, Inc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details PunchTab was a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2011 that was developing an Internet-based turnkey customer loyalty program for website owners, mobile... -
Doximity: Financing a Social Network for Physicians - Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note for case E598 -
Introduction
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFinancing New Ventures: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Angel Investment is a seven chapter book published in 2014 by the Business Expert Press and... -
Chengwei Ventures and the hdt Investment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Bo Feng, cofounder and principal in Chengwei Ventures, one of the first sovereign venture capital firms in China, is trying to decide on the proper business... -
Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four ventures, two were sold, one... -
Entrepreneurial Venturing and Financing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFinancing New Ventures: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Angel Investment is a seven chapter book published in 2014 by the Business Expert Press and... -
Francisco Partners
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Francisco Partners (which focuses on buyouts of high-technology firms) aims to be the largest first-time fund ever raised. The rationales for the fund,...