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- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
on paper: ‘Yeah, sure, we’re just going to create demand here and supply here, and it’s all going to work out.’ Even now, we’re still dealing with big challenges.” Soon after launching in April 2010, thredUP received seed View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group’s president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002 to launch the project. A feasibility study shows that an ethanol plant capable of producing 40 million gallons a year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
she could help. In an open message on LinkedIn, she offered her own contacts and experiences to any Black college student or recent graduate interested in the finance or tech sectors. “The next morning, my entire calendar was booked up,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing novel medicines from View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had controlled the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
on the tarmac at London’s Farnborough Airport. The seeds for their venture were sown at HBS, where they met and collaborated on a field study examining the efficiencies of business travel using very light jets (VLJs). Photograph Courtesy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have provided an important source of View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
without interactive curricula, the well-meaning movement may backfire. “Our fear is that if the schools teach entrepreneurship just as another typical subject, the kids rote learn to get high marks in the examination and that will do very little good to the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
rather the weather. Even today, Gandhi shivers a little when he talks about “crossing that darn bridge in the middle of winter.” Just as bracing to him, however, was the HBS attitude of being able to do anything you set your mind to. Although Gandhi drew on his View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we told our companies, ‘Don’t focus on international.’ Now the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Your Fullest Self
to hide. She began wearing wigs and extensions for the convenience and versatility they offered, not as a necessity. That experience was the seed for what inspired her to leave a secure position at Shell and launch Upgrade, an online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Sunny Side
Awesome, there’s a tribe for you. Want to drive a pink Lamborghini? Cool, knock yourself out.” Berardi believes Miami’s infectious energy gives ANIMO a competitive advantage in sourcing deals in which it can make big bets very early, investing at the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
part of investors. In 2015, the accelerator had 80 applicants; in 2020, it had 600 across three global programs. “The influx of talent is real,” Ferguson notes. But he saw those companies struggle to find early-stage funding. “It was increasingly frustrating that there... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
the traction can sometimes create a blind spot and put your company at serious risk. Back in 2018, when we raised our first round of seed funding, we learned this the hard way. We had great traction and a lot of venture capital firms... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
poor old people. We’ve scrimped on retirement funding because it’s a way of hiding the fact that we have stagnant and falling real wages. We maintain current incomes by gutting long-term savings. It’s the phenomenon of a society that eats its View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
1992) Adams Street Partners Paralysis by Analysis The opportunity I most remember passing on was a seed round in Ola, the leading taxi/ride-sharing company in India. The mistake I made was that I sized the market statically and failed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
McLeod. “The type of people you are seeing on Hinge are really people who you actually want to date,” he says of the app, which matches young professionals with other young professionals and was originally seeded with McLeod’s single... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
investments from other Boston companies, including an institutional seed round led by [venture firm] Accomplice. With all the capital, we want to perfect the online gifting experience. Our goal is to redefine expectations for what can fit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
have a long break-in period: I got out of the Navy on a Thursday before Memorial Day. A week from that Monday we had moved to Boston, and I had two sections of Finance for the summer session.” A native of West Virginia, Charlie Williams... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
believe are the most transformational technology companies. We do this across the spectrum––from our early-stage seed and Series A fund all the way through our two later-stage vehicles. We are only three years old and so my role is not... View Details