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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
million to $500 million, half the size of those raised during the tech frenzy, when billion-dollar funds were commonplace. Some industry veterans contend that there are still too many venture dollars chasing too few quality deals. “The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not enough of a track record of cash View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
by bilateral agencies, regional banks, government-sponsored development agencies, and civil society. In this time period, the flow of funds to developing countries has grown from $30 billion to $300 billion.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
heretofore incurable affliction that affects some 30,000 children and young adults in the United States. The O’Donnells founded The Joey Fund and worked tirelessly with the other organizations. Almost singlehandedly, O’Donnell created “a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
lights are out. Ideally, orders flow directly from order entry to a warehouse management system, but they can also be scanned or entered manually. None of this is new. I’ve seen it used for everything from tiny, lightweight products... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
good to get short-term interest rates up to at least 2 or 3 percent? There seems to be too much cheap money flowing around now, and unused funds earn nothing at this point (in fact slightly negative,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
where the nature of work is more virtual, collaborative, and transparent, information flows every which way, careers zig and zag, and work is what you do, not where you go. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy by... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
their research. That encouraged them to move ahead and form the company. "Small businesses are the engine of job growth in this country," says Callaghan. "The JOBS Act is an attempt to facilitate capital flows in a number of ways. Of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
illicit money that flows out of developing and transitional economies. These sums — corrupt, criminal, and commercially tax-evading in origin — are staggering, estimated at some $500 to $750 billion annually. The biggest part of this is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
the beginning, but it gets easier. Are there any large deals to be made that could solve cash flow issues? —Johan Pensar (OPM 41, 2011) I think this is a clear example of mistaking a better product with market fit. Patel identified his... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
growing pains. RITE is the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States, and reaching that milestone was an odyssey: Smith reckons that the technical challenges, funding crunches, and regulatory hurdles involved in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
Path Iyer’s time at HBS helped her clarify what direction her career should take. At the School, she forged lasting bonds with classmates and encountered a diversity of thought, which prompted Iyer to start making gifts to the HBS Fund... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
this problem was a good fit to my personality. What I found powerful is that for me I had to have a model of how each of the different parties to the negotiation saw the world, what their pressures on them were, where their funding was,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
competition so that I could then win some money that I could use to fund the company. Morrell: Aldi and his team won that competition and $25,000 dollars for the company. It was also their introduction to the Omidyar Network, their first... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
a lot of strife,” Kordestani says. “We decided to make the most of this crisis and change everything that needed to be changed, all in one go.” Susan Morris watches her son enjoy a lollipop from her shop in Gbarnga, Liberia, which she opened with View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
microprocessor. “The thought was, If I’m going to get involved, get involved in the company that’s at the heart of that business. Being in that flow was critical,” he recalls. After Intel, McMinn worked at Megatest, Interwest Partners,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
gradually give up operating excellence, because it gets in the way of growth. How has the economic downturn affected Kimpton’s growth strategy? It’s definitely a big opportunity. Over the last couple of years we raised two funds with a... View Details