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Michael Maples
investing but when he looked around, he saw a gap in the market. There was a raft of startups that wanted to raise seed or early funding but were not ready for a five million dollar round, which seemed to be the minimum that Silicon... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
transformation officer at the Carlyle Group, began work to put all those influencers together in what they called Culture Shifting Weekends, held annually in Silicon Valley and New York City. The idea was to celebrate Culture Shifters and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
wrong choices. This case examines a decision made by IBM in its semiconductor process technology strategy: a material to use as a dielectric insulator in its leading edge silicon chip technology. While at the time of the decision it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
"If you are a rock- star Internet guru who has founded a company and needs to make more money, it would be much more efficient to use crowdfunding than calling 10 of your friends in Silicon Valley." Such a result would likely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Most of the best businesses in Silicon Valley started with a very simple concept and extended into adjacent market segments as well as into global markets. Accel recently closed its second Chinese fund, this one for $510 million,... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717469-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-027 Hyperloop One This case explores the attempt of Shervin Pishevar, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, to shepherd hyperloop, a futuristic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
opinion on their side, and they had friends in high places. In October, Go-Jek’s Makarim accompanied Indonesian President Joko Widodo on his first state visit to the United States. One of the stops was in Silicon Valley, where the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the algorithm that has seen millions, says Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, a View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
met a number of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and came away with "a gut feeling that I could build my own company." So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and investing $5,000 in what would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
today, or even eighteen months ago,” says Tal Riesenfeld (MBA 2008), vice president of business development. Between his first and second years at HBS, Riesenfeld worked for Google in California, where he met a number of Silicon Valley... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Boston's Route 128 and California's Silicon Valley, across the nation, and eventually around the world. Some of the firms they backed include Apple Computer, Biogen, Digital Equipment Corp., Fairchild Semiconductor, Genentech, Intel,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
customers; selecting the right entrepreneurial marketing path; getting from the early stage to the mainstream in the market life cycle; and executing effective sales and marketing strategy in a dynamic environment. Former student Patricia E. Baumhart (MBA '96), who now... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
the strategies of lean experimentation, minimum viable product, bootstrapping, and staged investment are critical to startups in these emerging ecosystems, one needs to adapt the lessons from mature markets like Silicon Valley, New York,... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
(C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/806101-PDF-ENG PunchTab, Inc. Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr, and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 812-033 PunchTab was a Silicon Valley start-up, founded in 2011, that was developing an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
trend? Alan MacCormack: There are 3 main drivers. First, the complexity of products is increasing, in terms of the breadth and number of technologies they include. Cars send maintenance data wirelessly to dealerships; sneakers contain View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
in the middle of Silicon Valley, I believe it was the first case of community spread in the United States. It was that weekend of the first week of March, California Public Schools were going to shut down. And so, we started stress... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
name is worth remembering." Roosevelt said that in 1902, but it's a message that feels increasingly relevant, I think especially of Silicon Valley and its cultural acceptance of failure, which is so prevalent that there's even been... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
costs. Silicon and wafer cutting technologies that were rendered surplus after the semiconductor industry slowed down during the last recession were picked up by a fast-growing solar energy industry.Q: What advice would you give would-be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace