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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
Greylock Partners, one of the country’s first—and foremost— venture capital firms. “I don’t think the term ‘venture capital’ was in anyone’s vocabulary when we were students,”... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
ignores life’s vicissitudes and a venture’s changing business requirements. Imposing vesting terms on themselves and their cofounders can offer some protection for founders and the venture. “Rich vs. King” is a concept that you’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
said of his decision to become CEO of CarStation.com, a Web site linking car owners, repair shops, insurers, and suppliers. Mature industries with established relationships can present barriers to minority entrepreneurs, Goldsberry observed, while the Internet "is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
university,” he offers, “is not only to turn out specialists but also to educate men and women who can discover connections between different fields of knowledge, and build those synergies into businesses with a powerful positive impact.” In his View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
options. We decided to go for what we thought would be a winning investor team composed of a renowned venture firm and three large, industry-related business angels. A signed term View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
other, more appropriate things, like to finance equipment and tooling. That way, they can use revenue as a key source of capital to strengthen their balance sheet and get through the initial scale phase. As... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
spend more time thinking about what a venture could become if things go well as opposed to worrying too much about what could go wrong. Jeff Bussgang (MBA 1995) Flybridge Capital Partners HBS Senior Lecturer... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
business. “I knew it was a great fit for me,” he says. During the fifteen years he has worked at Merrill, O’Neal has proved himself again and again, moving from various positions in different divisions of the firm — financial services, global View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
their part.” “Our biggest challenge when we started the business was we were doing something that nobody had done before,” adds Minard. “It was a completely blank sheet of paper in terms of figuring out what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
settle into the new Science and Engineering Complex, which is right across the street from the Harvard Innovation Labs and adjacent to Harvard’s planned Enterprise Research Campus, the future home of company labs, startups, and venture... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a principal at Troy, a View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
more than $1,000 from local citizens and businesses; it is taught only in and by local business venues; and it requires that each student start a business. The program also features a $100,000 venture fund, established by an anonymous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
ENRIQUEZ: People take too much for granted. PHOTO BY JEFF THIEBAUTH As CEO of Biotechonomy, a life-sciences research and venture capital firm, Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has examined the impact of life sciences... View Details