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How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study)
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
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How to Attract the Right Shareholders
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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. -
How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
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For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost
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How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
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Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt’s in founders’ best interests to not only accept, but invite, oversight. -
Nonprofit Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus
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Giving After Disasters
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAlthough the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept... -
AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks... -
Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
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Why Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Should Use Their Money for Fundraising
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study)
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
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Tracy Edwards and Maiden (C): Sponsorship, Anyone?
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Twittamentary: Crowdsourcing a Project
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Gobi Partners: Raising Fund II
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CommonAngels Ventures
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Convertible Notes: A Form of Early-Stage Financing
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Street League Skateboarding: The Challenges Facing a New Sports League
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Twittamentary: Crowdsourcing a Project
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