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- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
Among them is Coca Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca Cola bottling company in Mexico and Latin America. They have been bootstrapping the company’s development, leveraging company excitement to gain design input. “Water can translate to a... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
scale. We’re bootstrapping and taking our time. What were some of the most helpful career resources you tapped into while you were an MBA? The best thing I did was be the career rep for my section—in other words, I was the liaison... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Founders, investors, and developers all have a say in governing the company. “Suddenly, you’re bootstrapping the fundraising, development, and user base all at once. The users then contribute... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
said women don’t support other women. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong." When Tuchman was bootstrapping funds for Caribu’s early days, she drew on friends, as many entrepreneurs do, but for favors rather than money. She pitched a story about Caribu to... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
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Paul Baier | Baker Library
and his partner bootstrapped for ten months but were unable to get funding. So they closed their doors and Paul joined AOL and then Open Market, where he saw an opportunity to serve small and medium-sized industrial buyers via the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Open Canvas
“that kind of broke our backs because it was so expensive,” he recalls. In 2003, on the brink of collapse, the Vaziranis sold most of their private art collection to bootstrap the business. It was a turning point, allowing the time to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Aug 2021
- News
Cracking the Code
large team of coders. The most recent funding, led by Ryan Hinkle of Insight Partners, amounts to huge news for Bubble, which has largely bootstrapped its way up to this point. The company has been experiencing significant growth in the... View Details
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Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk – Making an Impact | Information Technology
excited to be teaching the case, and I think it will demonstrate how economic development can really bootstrap a community.” Play Video duration: 1:41 Professor Richard S. Ruback describes the impact of the multimedia case format on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
social ills than government. Trust is the central issue for global institutions. CEOs have to speak out on societal issues, because their employees expect to work for a company with values consistent with their own. Wolverine, the work-boot company, has a program... View Details
- Career Coach
Nathan Lasche
Nathan (Stanford ‘02, HBS ‘10) is currently a Product Manager at YouTube / Google where he focuses on building YouTube’s music products. Prior to YouTube, Nathan was an early employee at the edtech company Knewton in New York, and View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
He launched FairMarket from his Beacon Hill apartment in 1997. "When we set up our server, I had an engineer in my kitchen doing the programming, and we had a network cable running all over the floor. It was a total bootstrap operation,"... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
destination was difficult to find or nonexistent. The inspiration for AbilityTrip grew out of their determination not to let Darren’s injury define his life or limit their ability to travel. Since launching AbilityTrip two years ago, Darren has View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and... View Details
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Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog
industry focus for this course - all sectors and business models apply - including CPG, social enterprise, nonprofits and bootstrapped businesses. This field course complements concepts covered in Launching Tech Ventures, Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own business possible. I was a 2+2 admit,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
offering a common connection or larger goal, through a relationship based on trust.” By leveraging less traditional means of support, a company can ultimately do more with less, conserving valuable financial resources, and bootstrapping... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Business School Case 817-051 Bootstrapping at Lightricks By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team of 30, earned a revenue run... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
computing and open-source software allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs like Bahadir to do more with less. And funding sources are more diverse than ever. Unger, for example, has raised seed money from sources of so-called patient capital:... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand