Business Start-ups - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2000 (Revised April 2004)
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TixToGo: Financing a Silicon Valley Start-up

Describes TixToGo, a Silicon Valley start-up company that offers online solutions to individuals and organizations that want to offer activities and/or collect registration fees for events over the Internet. A serial entrepreneur and his partner started the company in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Information Technology; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; San Francisco

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Purchase

23 May 2012
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Start-Up Customer Service 101

31 Oct 2014
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Silicon valley: start-up founders under pressure

01 Sep 2013
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A Start-Up with Giddyup

A Start-Up with Giddyup FORD: These boots were made for business. Photo courtesy Sarah Ford Whether you're the real deal or all hat and no cattle, you can cowboy up in style with custom-made boots from Sarah Ford (MBA 2007). Ford founded... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

their start-up pitches to a panel of judges in late April. To his surprise, Mahesh, representing the HBS Club of India, took top honors and was awarded a $25,000 cash prize for his plan to manufacture low-cost medical beds for Indian... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups

development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

10 Oct 2017
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Finish What You Start-up

college, coming out of business school––we have ourselves puffed up in a way that the reality of the world is going to crush in some way. “There was an advantage, in some ways, to being a startup in the Midwest. As I was getting out of... View Details

25 May 2012
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A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail

05 Apr 2012
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HBS's Noam Wasserman Brings Moneyball to Start-ups

October 1993
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Note on Developing Start-Up Strategies

Provides students with a workable framework for analyzing new ventures. Stresses the importance of matching analytical tasks to the type of venture contemplated. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Business Startups

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13 Nov 2011
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HBS's Howard Stevenson: How Start-ups Gain Market Share

01 Apr 2001
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Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad,... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Information

28 Aug 2016
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G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up

12 Sep 2010
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To Create Jobs, Nurture Start-Ups

27 Dec 2019
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The Rise of Fertility Start-ups

23 Mar 2021
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Managing Future Growth at an Innovative Workforce Education Start-up

01 Mar 2012
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I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble

Already a well-used venue, the Harvard Innovation Lab has been the site for a full schedule of panels, workshops, and seminars since its opening last fall. In early November, the i-lab hosted its first Start-Up Weekend Scramble, an event... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Jan 2021
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Mission possible: How start-up thinking can help public projects

01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up

— a common experience that might bind the entrepreneurs I wrote about and give the reader some focus. Serendipitously, I came across an article from Fortune, written in 1999 at the height of the Internet bubble. “For new MBAs at Harvard View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade