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11 Feb 2011
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The Impact of Financing Risk on Innovative Startups

28 Jun 2022
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Scaling a Fintech Startup for the Greater Good

18 Oct 2021
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Alumnae-founded Fintech Startup Secures $29M in New Financing

Photo via Harvard Innovation Labs Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA 1998), cofounder of Now, recently spoke to Yahoo Finance Live to discuss its recent $29 million funding round. Hodgson cofounded Now in 2010 with former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as a way... View Details

April 2015 (Revised March 2017)
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Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Instacart is testing an Uber-style solution to the challenge of building a home-delivered grocery business. It is backed by $220 million of venture funding. Will this model succeed where businessses like Webvan failed? What are the questions that this exploratory... View Details

Keywords: Food Retailing; Outsourced Grocery Delivery; Online Ordering; Dynamic Pricing; Data Analytics; Marketing Strategy; Food; Distribution Channels; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry; California

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31 Mar 2022
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Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

Connection Fortunately, Belsito knew exactly the right person to consider for the role. Weeks earlier, Kevin Sani (MBA 2022) reached out to Belsito while researching mission-based startups making an impact on climate change. “After... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

18 Nov 2020
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Founders, Apply the Scientific Method to Your Startup

2025
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After the Idea: What It Really Takes to Create and Scale a Startup

By: Julia Austin

A lot of entrepreneurs are great at the idea part but do not anticipate the details required to actually run and scale a new venture. Drawing on my experience at renowned startups like Akamai Technologies, VMware, and DigitalOcean and the hundreds of founders and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management

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22 Dec 2014
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42 Student Startups That Won Big This Year

Keywords: challenge; New Venture Competition

March 2022
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Exchanging Salary for Stock Options at a Startup

By: Erik Stafford

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25 Aug 2014
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How an Entrepreneur's Passion Can Destroy a Startup

16 Jun 2025
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Does Your Startup Set Employees Up to Fail?

11 Apr 2024
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Startup for Transgender Health Care Wins Venture Award

29 Sep 2023
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Research: In Recessions, Employees Avoid Jobs with Startups

12 Mar 2014
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10 Harvard Business School Startups You Should Know

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade; Personal Services

20 Jul 2017
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Stanford And Harvard Profs Explain Why These Two Regions Host Most Startups

August 2019 (Revised March 2023)
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Rand Fishkin at Moz (A)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

In 2016, senior management at Moz, a venture capital–backed startup providing software tools for digital marketing professionals, must decide how to address a looming cash flow crisis precipitated by failed efforts to broaden its product line. Seattle-based Moz had... View Details

Keywords: Startups; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Failure; Business Startups; Diversification; Growth Management; Technology Industry

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