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  • 09 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

Startup Balancing Act

said to my coworker, and with that I stepped off the hover board. “Hopefully, you can learn it by the end of the summer” he replied while laughing. I gave him a firm handshake and returned to my desk. My summer internship is at a medical device View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb
Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Plan; Disruption; Transformation; Trends; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Equity; Executive Compensation; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Interviews; Growth and Development Strategy; Ownership Stake; Opportunities; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; New York (city, NY); California; France
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  • 16 Nov 2009
  • News

Spotlight on Startups

Keywords: Information; Telecommunications; Information; Management
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • Video

HBS Startup Bootcamp

  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub

By: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert and Maria P. Roche
We study the engagement of nascent firms with open source communities and its implications for innovation and attracting funding. To do so, we link data on 160,065 U.S. startups from Crunchbase to their activities on the open source software development platform... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Knowledge; Open Source Communities; GitHub; Machine Learning; Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Information Technology; Strategy
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  • October 2020
  • Technical Note

Firing at Startups

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
Keywords: Firing
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Code-Washing: Evidence from Open-Source Blockchain Startups

By: Ofir Gefen, Daniel Rabetti, Yannan Sun and Che Zhang
This study examines startups' management of source code repositories, distinguishing authentic developers ("code-producers''), from those inflating activity to mislead investors ("code-washers''). Using global blockchain startup and GitHub data, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Open Source Distribution; Business Startups
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  • 06 Sep 2021
  • News

Tom Eisenmann: Startups and their Wrong Decisions

    Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

    What are the tradeoffs between going to a startup versus joining a mature company? Having done both, several times, I get this question all the time. There are many things to consider and lots of “it depends” when it comes to where you are in your career, where... View Details
    • November 2013
    • Article

    Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

    By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional on going public are valued higher on the day of their IPO, have more patents, and have more citations to their patents. Our results suggest... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Market Cycles; Financing Risk; Risk and Uncertainty; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention
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    • 11 Jan 2021
    • News

    Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

    • Working Paper Summaries

    Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

    Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann
    • 07 Feb 2018
    • News

    Helping Startups Give Back

    “If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    From Big Pharma to Startup

    venture-backed biotech startup in Cambridge that Goble leads as CEO. Goble says his transformation into a startup founder would not have been possible without the support system for entrepreneurs he... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • Video

    Digital Media Startup Roundtable

    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    Ink: The Three-Step Startup

    For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out that the executive director of... View Details
    Keywords: Jill Radsken; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 25 Mar 2021
    • News

    Startup Hits $1.5B Valuation

    Keywords: internet security; entrepreneurship; veterans; leadership; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 07 Mar 2019
    • News

    Digital-Health Startup Livongo Eyes 2019 IPO

    • 07 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

    Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    • 01 Jun 2014
    • News

    Spring Training for Startups

    April was a good month for startups at HBS, with three events connecting expert entrepreneurs with student and alumni founders. The HBS Rock 100 Entrepreneurs' Summit featured conversations with industry leaders like Care.com founder and... View Details