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- 06 May 2013
- News
Crowdfunding tries to grow up
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
20-person team when your venture is pre-revenue is not impressive; it could be worrisome.” While the forecast is far from sunny, entrepreneurs are still raising funds, Austin notes—and plenty is still possible with little to no financial backing. “More founders are... View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
success in a large collection of career-trajectory data. The company is still in its bootstrap stage, Kostova says, and she has found herself considering principles she learned in her second-year entrepreneurship class at HBS, taught by... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the job done. Shaich offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn’t end in... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
all about building a venture via bootstrapping and a little cash," explains Reiss. "I think it's remained relevant over the years because it's a simple, compelling story that shows, if you are nimble and creative, how risk can be... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- News
Cracking the Code
large team of coders. The most recent funding, led by Ryan Hinkle of Insight Partners, amounts to huge news for Bubble, which has largely bootstrapped its way up to this point. The company has been experiencing significant growth in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
He launched FairMarket from his Beacon Hill apartment in 1997. "When we set up our server, I had an engineer in my kitchen doing the programming, and we had a network cable running all over the floor. It was a total bootstrap operation,"... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
destination was difficult to find or nonexistent. The inspiration for AbilityTrip grew out of their determination not to let Darren’s injury define his life or limit their ability to travel. Since launching AbilityTrip two years ago, Darren has View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
computing and open-source software allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs like Bahadir to do more with less. And funding sources are more diverse than ever. Unger, for example, has raised seed money from sources of so-called patient capital:... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
building group cohesion. Leaders can no longer just “rally the troops.” Instead, they must employ more positive means to span boundaries, affirm identity, cultivate trust, and collaborate productively. Bootstrapping 101: Tips to Build... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
social ills than government. Trust is the central issue for global institutions. CEOs have to speak out on societal issues, because their employees expect to work for a company with values consistent with their own. Wolverine, the work-boot company, has a program... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Sandhill Road was that there was no money in developer tools—but user growth was accelerating, and cloud computing seemed to be changing the world. The founders were friendly and willing to meet occasionally, but they were also staunch believers in View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
was very different when you started your first business in 2000. And I wonder if you can talk about your career evolution—how your professional experience sort of offered you a perspective on the ideas that you elaborate on in the book? RS: So I View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
With demand growing, Khan eventually left his full-time job as a hedge fund analyst to devote himself full-time to Khan Academy, bootstrapping it for the first nine months before receiving early support from Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976),... View Details