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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
- October 2022 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Founders First Capital Partners: An Approach to Capital Access Equity
By: Brian Trelstad, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, Kim T. Folsom, the founder and CEO of revenue-based financing firm Founders First Capital Partners (FFCP), must decide whether to issue another loan to OnShore Technology Group, an up-and-coming software validation company. FFCP provided revenue-based... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Financial Instruments; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment Return; Revenue; Capital; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Trelstad, Brian, Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Founders First Capital Partners: An Approach to Capital Access Equity." Harvard Business School Case 323-013, October 2022. (Revised January 2025.)
- 23 Jan 2024
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumnus, Daniel Ross (MBA 2019), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details
- 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.
- 05 Dec 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
What Founders Get Wrong about Sales and Marketing
Keywords: Re: Mark N. Roberge
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 05 Mar 2015
- Video