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    The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

    A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
    • October 2004 (Revised March 2005)
    • Case

    Langer Lab, The: Commercializing Science

    By: H. Kent Bowen, Alex Kazaks, Ayr Muir-Harmony and Bryce LaPierre
    Professor Robert Langer's laboratory at MIT is the source of an unusually large number of published papers, patents, and technology licenses to start-up and established companies in the biomedical industry. Explores Langer's leadership and other factors that create a... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Research and Development; Patents; Innovation Leadership; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Education Industry
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    • February 2024 (Revised September 2024)
    • Case

    TimeCredit

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Raymond Kluender and Shai Benjamin Bernstein
    TimeCredit is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that is developing large language models (LLMs) to generate accounting memos. The case follows Ndonga Sagnia, a Gambian Harvard Business School MBA student with an accounting background, as she decides how much... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; AI and Machine Learning; Entrepreneurial Finance; Identity; Technology Industry
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    • 11 May 2016
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Who Owns Space?

    Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl
    • February 2024 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    Financing Matillion's Scaleup (A)

    By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Ramana Nanda
    In 2019, Matthew Scullion, founder and CEO of U.K. startup Matillion, faced a decision about which term sheet to accept for the lead investor in his company’s $35 million Series C financing round. Would the connections and opportunities offered by Silicon Valley-based... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Ownership; Business Startups; Decisions; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Valuation; Information Technology Industry; United Kingdom
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    • December 2020
    • Supplement

    VIA Science (B)

    By: Juan Alcácer, Rembrand Koning, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
    Via (a) captures the early days of the data analytics startup as founders Gounden and Ravanis considered which markets offer the right opportunities for their firm and what kinds of experiments will help them narrow their choice. Supplement Via (b) reveals the... View Details
    Keywords: Data Analytics; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Strategy; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Telecommunications Industry; Utilities Industry; United States; Japan
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    • December 2020
    • Case

    VIA Science (A)

    By: Juan Alcácer, Rembrand Koning, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
    Via (a) captures the early days of the data analytics startup as founders Gounden and Ravanis considered which markets offer the right opportunities for their firm and what kinds of experiments will help them narrow their choice. Supplement Via (b) reveals the... View Details
    Keywords: Data Analytics; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Strategy; Business Startups; Markets; AI and Machine Learning; Telecommunications Industry; Utilities Industry; United States; Japan
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    • 04 Jan 2022
    • News

    The Elizabeth Holmes Verdict: Silicon Valley’s Reckoning or a Single Bad Apple?

    • December 2012 (Revised October 2022)
    • Case

    Plastiq

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Gaurav Jain, Liroy Haddad, Luke Langford and Matt Noble
    The young CEO of a venture-backed startup needs to figure out his go to market strategy and the right profile for his first key sales hires. Should he develop partnerships with channels that would provide leverage or build out a direct sales force? And should the sales... View Details
    Keywords: Payments; Sales; Channels; Credit Cards; Digital Platforms; Selection and Staffing; Cost vs Benefits; Salesforce Management; Marketing Channels; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Management Systems
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    • January 2017
    • Case

    Flatiron School

    By: Thomas Eisenmann and Halah AlQahtani
    In late 2016, the founders of Flatiron School, a startup offering 12-week coding bootcamps, are formulating their growth strategy. Their new online-only program has matched the excellent job placement results for their in-person bootcamps. Should Flatiron shift... View Details
    Keywords: Scaling Start-ups; Growth Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Distribution Channels; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Diversification; Expansion; Education Industry; United States
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    • November 2022
    • Supplement

    Arcos Dorados’ Quest for the Digitalization of Last-Mile Delivery in Colombia (B)

    By: Jorge Tamayo, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
    In 2020, Francisco Staton, president of Arcos Dorados’ Caribbean Division, and Héctor Orozco, Managing Director of Arcos Dorados Colombia, were looking into Arcos Dorados’ options to consolidate its food delivery service in Colombia. This time the matter at hand hinged... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Global Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Logistics; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Latin America; South America; Colombia
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    • October 2011 (Revised June 2014)
    • Case

    inge watertechnologies, GmbH

    By: Ramana Nanda, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Markus Mittermaier
    Using the financing history and exit choices of a German clean-tech startup as a lens, this case explores the reasons why venture-backed entrepreneurship is much lower in Germany than the US, despite a robust SME sector and large-corporate innovation in Germany. It... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Venture Capital; Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry; Germany
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    • February 2024
    • Teaching Note

    TimeCredit

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Raymond Kluender and Shai Benjamin Bernstein
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 824-139. TimeCredit is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that is developing large language models (LLMs) to generate accounting memos. The case follows Ndonga Sagnia, a Gambian Harvard Business School MBA student with an accounting... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; AI and Machine Learning; Entrepreneurial Finance; Identity; Partners and Partnerships; Technology Industry
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    • February 2011 (Revised September 2016)
    • Case

    Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid

    By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Nori Gerardo Lietz
    In January 2007, Hazem Ben-Gacem, managing director and co-head of Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), needs to decide what to bid at an auction for Moneybookers Limited, one of the top three e-payment solution providers in Europe. However, approximately 70% of... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Private Equity; Investment; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Europe; United States
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    • 05 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

    Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology
    • August 2001 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    Worldzap

    By: Rohit Deshpande, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Suma Raju and David Kiron
    In February 2001, the CEO of a new technology start-up had to decide how to present his firm's value proposition to future clients, customers, and business partners. The technology allowed distribution of full-motion video clips of sports highlights to "third... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Information Technology; Marketing Strategy; Distribution; Technology Adoption; Forecasting and Prediction; Value Creation; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Europe
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    • August 2021
    • Case

    Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)

    By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
    In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
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    • Profile

    Michael R. Bloomberg

    the most important to me is that life expectancy in New York City has grown three years since I took office in 2002 and is now 2.2 years greater than the national average.” As an entrepreneur, Bloomberg took particular interest in New York’s View Details
    • January 2023
    • Case

    Proday: Calling the Right Play

    By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
    Sarah Kunst knew the elements of a successful startup from her tenure at venture capital firms. In April 2018, however, her own app – Proday, a home fitness platform featuring exercises filmed by professional sports stars – was floundering. Kunst theorized that... View Details
    Keywords: Social Media; Entrepreneurship; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Product Launch; Social Marketing; Failure; Sports; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Technology Industry; United States
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    • Career Coach

    Juan Leung Li

    in the entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus to launch a startup while in school, co-found Rock Venture Partners and pursue his passion to help entrepreneurs as an early stage VC. Juan is a Partner at Tectonic Ventures, a B2B pre-seed and... View Details
    Keywords: Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder; Startup - Founder