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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... -
When You Pitch an Idea, Gestures Matter More Than Words
Communication Magazine ArticleAccording to new study led by a professor from Erasmus University, body language sways potential investors more than technical explanations or figurative... -
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... -
Successful Startups Don't Make Money Their Primary Mission
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLose sight of that and you lose the company. -
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... -
In Search of the Next Big Thing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the 1990s, just out of college, Andreessen went knocking on VC doors in Silicon Valley, looking to fund what became the breakthrough web browser Netscape... -
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... -
Dream Deferred: The Story of a High-Tech Entrepreneur in a Low-Tech World
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAdesemi, an American start-up in Africa, had been trying for six years to blanket the developing world with desperately needed wireless communications... -
Stretch the Mission? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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... -
Stretch the Mission? (Commentary for 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... -
Too Soon to IPO? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFour years ago, Diane Ashton and Sundeep Lal were working together at MIT on a titanium extraction project. Durable and highly heat resistant, titanium... -
Too Soon to IPO? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFour years ago, Diane Ashton and Sundeep Lal were working together at MIT on a titanium extraction project. Durable and highly heat resistant, titanium... -
Is Venture Capital Broken?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. The report,... -
When Founders Go Too Far
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleSilicon Valley venture capitalists used to routinely oust start-up founders--who were viewed as green and unskilled--as part of the process leading to... -
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... -
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... -
Can You Predict a Startup's Success Based on the Concept Alone?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch suggests you can-but only in some industries. -
How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's more global, more urban, and more winner-take-all. -
VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start-Up
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleMost successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital.
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The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 2019, WeWork filed for an initial public offering; investors in its 14 venture capital rounds were anxious for an exit. Softbank had invested... -
Taurion Inc.: Built to Cure an Incurable Disease (VCs)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IES519. Taurion Inc. is a start-up company established in 2006 and based in Vienna. It specializes in researching the causes of Alzheimer's... -
Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian... -
Brummer and the bracNet Investment
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested... -
AnswerDash (Abridged)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details It is 2014 and AnswerDash, a startup backed by venture capital, has not seen the widespread adoption of their online self-service customer support solution... -
Square, Inc. IPO
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In November 2015, Square, Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO had an offering price of $9 per share, lower than the $11 to $13 estimate... -
Proteolix: A "Me-Too" Success
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In an industry rife with failures, Proteolix, a biotechnology company, was a rare success. The Proteolix case provides a compelling example of a biotech... -
Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global... -
Metapath Software: September 1997
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In September 1997, John Hansen called together his board to debate an interesting choice that his company had to make. Hansen--the CEO of Metapath Software,... -
VC Decision-Making in India: Aavishkaar and Milk Mantra (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The case profiles the protagonist, Vineet Rai, managing partner of Aavishkaar Venture Management Services (an Indian, early stage VC firm with a focus... -
Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
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.... -
Zenefits Board of Directors (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In early 2018, the time seemed right for Zenefits investor and director Lars Dalgaard to reflect on whether Zenefits had the right board of directors... -
Napo Pharmaceuticals: Triple Bottom Line of People, Planet, and Profits (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Napo Pharmaceuticals case study provides students with an example of a biotech company that has pursued a triple bottom line of people, planet, and... -
Splunk and Venture Capital Investing in Enterprise Technology (Part A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Case describes the funding landscape for enterprise technology startups and how there has been a renewed interest in these types of companies in 2012... -
Neeley University Investment Management Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case analyzes the problem of a university looking to reduce its private equity exposure in its endowment. The university hires Cogent Partners, a... -
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... -
Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company Is Born
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Charles Ferguson has just heard from a venture capital (VC) consortium that it is willing to finance Vermeer Technologies, a company he has cofounded... -
TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details On August 1, 2007, 61-year-old Jan-Olaf Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with... -
Nimbus Therapeutics
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on Nimbus Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as its leadership team tries to determine the company's...
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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... -
Francisco Partners, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for (9-200-063). -
The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 2019, WeWork filed for an initial public offering; investors in its 14 venture capital rounds were anxious for an exit. Softbank had invested... -
The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note to case W20367 -
Yale Investments Office: November 2020, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 821074. -
Taurion Inc.: Built to Cure an Incurable Disease (VCs)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IES519. Taurion Inc. is a start-up company established in 2006 and based in Vienna. It specializes in researching the causes of Alzheimer's... -
Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian... -
When You Pitch an Idea, Gestures Matter More Than Words
Communication Magazine ArticleAccording to new study led by a professor from Erasmus University, body language sways potential investors more than technical explanations or figurative... -
Brummer and the bracNet Investment
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested...