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- 21 Mar 2016
- News
Karmaloop founder can’t escape $5 million debt
- 15 May 2018
- News
Talking Disruption With Bluemercury Founder Marla Beck
- 2012
- Working Paper
The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman. "The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-085, March 2014.
- August 2018
- Case
BlackBuck (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
The case presents the challenges of scaling an asset-heavy company (that relies on its operations). It highlights how decisions on the early team impact a company’s ability to scale, linkage between growth and cash flows, as well the organizational impact of high... View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Ellen DaSilva (MBA 2017), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details
- 13 Sep 2023
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details
- 08 Dec 2023
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Janvi Shah (MBA 2022), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
the book has received rave reviews. Publisher's Weekly called it a "seminal work on the startup phase of the entrepreneurial venture captivating," and Dharmesh Shah at OnStartups.com called it "the definitive book on the topic." ("If you are a... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 20 Nov 2020
- News
What Kind of Startup Founder Are You?
- 21 Feb 2024
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Katie Kirsch (MBA 2023), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
What Founders Get Wrong about Sales and Marketing
Keywords: Re: Mark N. Roberge
- 09 Jul 2017
- News
Women in Business: Caron Proschan, Founder and CEO, Simply Gum
- 2011
- Working Paper
The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Equity; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Deal; Ownership Stake; Value
Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman. "The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16922, April 2011.
- 13 Oct 2023
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Keta Burke-Williams (MBA 2021), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details
- 26 Jul 2023
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Kristina Hu (MBA 2022), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
the profit motive. However, early in my case writing, I began running into several decisions that founders were making that seemed to conflict with the profit motive. For instance, founders I was studying... View Details
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
then falling short of meeting it, then the failure rate is a whopping 90 to 95 percent. "Very few companies achieve their initial projections," says Ghosh. "Failure is the norm." Why Start-ups Fail Start-ups often fail because View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2023
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumnus, Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details