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30 Apr 2019
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Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile

Photo courtesy of Justin McLeod, via Instagram Photo courtesy of Justin McLeod, via Instagram Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), the self-proclaimed romantic and founder of Hinge, the fast-growing dating app, thinks you can learn from his story.... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

27 Mar 2019
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Will Startup Fishbowl Become the Social Media App for Your Industry?

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

and Sylvan Guo, for Hue, an e-commerce technology platform that helps brands and retailers to showcase short-form, customer-generated video reviews on their websites. The virtual audience then awarded the Crowd Favorite prize of $5,000 to Tilden, a nonalcoholic... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Jul 2017
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Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics

Melis Anahtar in the Life Lab If you’ve ever been hospitalized with an infection and had to wait days for test results and a treatment plan, you understand the problems that Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) is addressing. The company is one of the 14 inaugural View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

28 Sep 2023
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What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from the global hedge fund leader on... View Details

15 Nov 2017
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How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

Clubs News Clubs News Singapore War Room Sessions Link Startups with HBS Alumni Mentors The HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS), in collaboration with the Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF) and its signature The Bridge Fashion Incubator... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping

Walmart and Amazon are in the middle of an epic competition that is going to be thrilling to watch. The startups that have been most successful have targeted a specific category—Peloton in exercise, Casper in mattresses, Warby Parker in... View Details

Keywords: Ron Johnson (MBA 1984), founder and CEO, Enjoy

10 Mar 2021
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Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t have a View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

06 Dec 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Chaku Foods Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021), CEO and Founder Concept: A snack-food company in Okrah’s native Ghana that is building farming supply chain infrastructure for other consumer... View Details

Keywords: agriculture; Africa; food manufacturing; entrepreneurship; startup; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve

Foundation, an educational fund founded by board chair Ashish Dhawan [MBA 1997] and Siddharth Yog [MBA 2004], founder of the emerging-markets investment firm Xander.) Rocket already works with public schools in the populous states of... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
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New News

Edited by Julia Hanna Courtesy Michael Aft Courtesy Snigdha Sur Courtesy Michael Aft Courtesy Snigdha Sur Michael Aft (MBA 2019) and Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) would be the first to acknowledge that launching a digital media startup out of... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information