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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Ramana NandaHarvard Business School Case 812-168 Siddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of ABC India Pvt. Ltd., reflected on his meetings as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
email address, LinkedIn account, and contact list. Fishbowl has several hundred thousand users and is now looking for ways to monetize the platform. As such, founders Loren Appin and Matt Sunbulli face a mission-critical decision: should... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
of the Freelancers Insurance Company, Sara Horowitz, founder and CEO, holds a staff meeting to discuss the outcome. The discussion focuses in particular on members' reaction. With the staff at odds with one another, Horowitz considers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for founders and investors to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-057 Fluidity In December 2018, the blockchain startup Fluidity was about to participate in its first tokenization deal, which would create digital... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-401 Jumia Nigeria: From Retail to Marketplace (A) Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-074 Equity Compensation in Startup Ventures Setting equitable and "market" level compensation for founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
startup funds—and what allowed them to take the risk of launching a company." Curiosity eventually led to his doctoral dissertation: a series of studies showing a definitive link between the social safety net and entrepreneurship. In... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Ferragni, a globe-trotting founder of the world's most popular fashion blog "The Blonde Salad," had to decide how to best monetize her blog as well as her shoe line called the "Chiara Ferragni Collection." A year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
informal organizational networks; and during periods of credit expansion. Overall, we provide novel evidence of non-agency related costs in the use of soft information in credit decisions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54618... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
thin representation at senior levels remains in place. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51896 Are 'Better' Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation By: Scott, Erin L.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
missed this opportunity in the aftermath of the financial crisis, let’s hope that we will not miss this opportunity this time around. Julie Battilana (@julie_battilana) is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
In November 2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether to grow their startup at a measured pace and focus on improving operational effectiveness, or raise a new round of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel