Startup Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

pure-play stores can’t directly match. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration. Rembrand M. Koning: Think like a startup and experiment Given that every week feels like a year in 2020, I... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

or the newest startup in Silicon Valley, VC is not just a model of finance that has proven difficult to replicate in other countries. It is a state of mind exemplified by an appetite for risk-taking, a bold spirit of adventure, and an... View Details

August 2024 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell and Karina Souza

In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the unprecedent crypto momentum as a window of... View Details

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23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

to invest but to grow our platform, which is a bit of a startup itself.” Pathipati: “I am a member of the founding team and lead the investment effort at North Island, an... View Details

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

startup itself.” Pathipati: “I am a member of the founding team and lead the investment effort at North Island, an innovative private equity firm established by Glenn Hutchins (MBA 1983) (previously... View Details

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

entry into a new market for Plámo, a company that created startup companies in Europe and emerging markets based upon existing successful business models. She had only been with the company a few months, and while excited by the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

Photography by Michael Stravato From cofounding the first aerial tramway high above Costa Rica’s rainforest canopy, to helping a two-person wind-energy startup become an industry leader, to making a quixotic run for US Congress, Michael... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

allowing him and his team to scan Xerox's technology base and identify investment opportunities that might otherwise have been missed. 38 This structure was called Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). Fumbling the Future was published in... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

21 Dec 2018
News

Bridging the Gap

authentic interests might be. Flint: It sounds like there’s a return on investment here for the college education that could be taken into account in this decision. Falik: I think that the most compelling reason that every young person... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

of 10‐year sustainability‐related goals. In an effort to meet such goals, the company invested a total of $1 billion in environmentally beneficial products such as new seeds and traits in Dow's AgroSciences business, solar shingles, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

prices. Incomes were soaring, and by some measures about 1,000 new cars were being added to Jakarta streets every day. Not long after his graduation in 2011, Makarim joined Germany-based e-commerce investment firm Rocket Internet as its... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

collaboration. Second, they didn't organize effectively for collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Sep 2021
News

Growing Home

Yoshito Hori: There were two things I thought about when this started: First, let's bring back the people and the traffic that has been lost in downtown Mito. The second was to create a more vibrant city, with more startups and more... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

(Wiley) Seides provides critical lessons and insights for those trying to decipher the industry and those seeking to invest in the next generation of high performers. He focuses on the common travails of View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Lighten Up

and Exchange Commission. He also worked in the first Bush administration’s White House. Kim, 40, worked as a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and the COO of the Shackleton Schools, a high... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

26 Oct 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

Goats and Horses Maverick Ventures is the venture arm of Maverick Capital. The team focuses mainly on investments in tech and healthcare across a variety of different verticals, and my first day with them got off to an unexpected start.... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing or able to View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that most startups... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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