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  • November 2013
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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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Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation." Journal of Financial Economics 110, no. 2 (November 2013): 403–418.
  • 11 Jan 2021
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Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

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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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Conti, Annamaria, Christian Peukert, and Maria P. Roche. "Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online March 7, 2025.)
  • November 22, 2022
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Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang
After high-profile startup failures like FTX or Theranos, investors, employees, customers, and policymakers all ask what might have been done differently to ensure accountability and prevent mismanagement. But startup founders should join that list: It’s in their... View Details
Keywords: Start-up; Business Startups; Entrepreneurial Finance; Corporate Accountability
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Bussgang, Jeffrey J. "Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 22, 2022).
  • 01 Apr 1997
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An Orchestral Startup

with Yoo hiring topflight young musicians and Lim handling the business end, Metamorphosen came to life with a startup budget of $75,000 raised from charitable donations (the orchestra is a tax-exempt entity), corporate sponsors, program... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
  • 17 Mar 2016
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The 124-Year-Old Startup

Fifteen years after taking over the top spot from “Neutron Jack” Welch, Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) talks to Bloomberg Businessweek for a wide-ranging consideration of his tenure at the $122 billion giant, including the company’s latest retooling as a software View Details
  • 20 Aug 2021
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Why Startups Fail

  • 17 Apr 2017
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HBS Startup Bootcamp

  • 07 Mar 2019
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Digital-Health Startup Livongo Eyes 2019 IPO

  • 07 Nov 2011
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Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
  • 2025
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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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Gefen, Ofir, Daniel Rabetti, Yannan Sun, and Che Zhang. "Code-Washing: Evidence from Open-Source Blockchain Startups." Working Paper, January 2025.
  • 06 Sep 2021
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Tom Eisenmann: Startups and their Wrong Decisions

  • 06 May 2019
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Startup Talk in Chicago

venture community and startup ecosystem.” The HBSCC hosts a wide variety of business and civic leaders for the benefit of alumni, according to Club President Steve Wasko (MBA 1986). “Penny Pritzker is at the pinnacle of both of these... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

    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
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    Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

    Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann
    • 22 Nov 2010
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    The World's Smartest Startup

    Keywords: parking; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
    • January 2012
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    Assembling the Startup Team

    By: Noam Wasserman
    Keywords: Business Startups; Management Teams
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    • 01 Sep 2023
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    Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

    Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Mele
    • 27 Mar 2019
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    Life Is a Startup

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2010, Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) was teaching a course he developed at HBS called Founder’s Dilemmas, which focused on the challenges that young startups face.... View Details
    • 07 Apr 2021
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    Why Do Startups Fail?

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