Publications

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April 2016
Supplement

Fast Ion Battery

April 2015
Teaching Note

SecondMarket - Providing Liquidity for Shareholders of Privately Held iContact

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-006.pdf Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We examine the effect of U.S. branch banking... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Feb 2013
Panel Discussion

Kauffman Foundation's State of Entrepreneurship

March 2015
Teaching Note

TerraPower

May 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Case

H-Soft Mumbai

Siddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of H-Soft Mumbai reflected on his meeting as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his startup to several different investors, he finally had a term sheet in hand. Despite this... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital Term Sheet; India; Business Startups; Investment; Venture Capital; Contracts; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Decision Making

Educators

May 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Supplement

H-Soft (B-1): Siddharth Kapoor

Siddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of H-Soft Mumbai, reflected on his meetings as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his startup to several different investors, he finally had a term sheet in hand. Despite this... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital Term Sheet; India; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Contracts; Partners and Partnerships; India

10 Jun 2009
Keynote Speech

New Models for Financing Entrepreneurs

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Finance

1 Dec 2010
Panel Discussion

Venture Capital Investments in Clean Energy

Keywords: Energy; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry

1 Mar 2010
Conference Presentation

Entrepreneurial Finance and Public Policy

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Finance

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

Participants assigned to recall a purchase made for someone else reported feeling significantly happier immediately after this recollection; most importantly, the happier participants felt, the more likely they were to choose to spend a windfall on someone else in the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2024
Working Paper

Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance

At the heart of entrepreneurial finance lies a persuasion challenge: regardless of the strength of an entrepreneur’s belief in the potential of their idea, they typically need to convince investors to provide the financial capital required for its... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Communication Intention and Meaning; Prejudice and Bias

SSRN

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March 2015
Teaching Note

AngelList

March 2015
Background Note

Multi-Stage Financing of High-Potential Ventures

Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financial Strategy

Educators

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

much more radical change (sacking of Troy / innovation). Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors: William Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Nov 2011
Panel Discussion

The Buck Starts Here: Venture Capital's Role in Scaling Energy Innovation