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- September 1998 (Revised May 1999)
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Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Plan; Research; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
Roberts, Michael J. "Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size." Harvard Business School Case 899-064, September 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
green technology is a testament to the power of nurturing a strong startup ecosystem. The company's close-knit relationships with suppliers and investors have cultivated a fertile ground for innovation,... View Details
- Fast Answer
Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources
Market research: BCC Research - Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology worldwide. Frost & Sullivan - Reports and market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Child’s Play
Press-Gazette (November 16, 2010). Observing her own under-two son flip pictures and flashcards on an iPhone, Tak realized how technology can be used by even the very young. And she noted, while there are lots of apps for mobile devices,... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
(MBA 2019) Jonas Lee (MBA 1993) Meghan Kenny (MBA 2019) Jonas Lee (MBA 1993) Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains Scaling carbon capture in Southwest Wyoming Photo credits: Meghan Kenny; Jonas Lee Todd Brix (MBA 1997) Todd Brix (MBA 1997) Carbon's Second Act A View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Life Science Entrepreneurship in 2015, she worked for several venture capital firms specializing in health care and technology startups.) In order to satisfy the limited partners that supply their capital, Unger explains, venture... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- October 2011 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Ensighten
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Michael J. Roberts
Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur must weight legal and business issues vs. his desire to land the key customer. View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Business Plan; Business Startups; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Contracts; Information Technology Industry
Goldberg, Lena G., and Michael J. Roberts. "Ensighten." Harvard Business School Case 812-050, October 2011. (Revised October 2013.)
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“Where’s your cash register? I don’t hear the cash register ringing.” Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) still recalls the first words her father, a small-town accountant, uttered when he visited ViaCord’s startup offices in 1993. “That was his... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is fueled by a mission to never have to “plug in” again. The CEO of WiTricity, a startup revolutionizing science with its magnetic resonance technology, hopes to soon relegate electrical wires and batteries to the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
fashion, our management nursed the money through the worst of the downturn. The story doesn't end there. On our way out we were introduced to the management and directors of the startup that had the room reserved after us, kozmo.com.... View Details
- June 2001
- Case
Bang Networks- The First Customer (A)
By: Jay O. Light and Mary N. Caravella
In November 2000, six-month-old start-up Bang Networks is preparing a proposal for its first paid subscription contract. The recent MBA founders of the new San Francisco--based company believe they have a unique new solution for effective delivery of real-time Web... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Negotiation Tactics; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Value Creation; Negotiation Preparation; Information Technology Industry; San Francisco
Light, Jay O., and Mary N. Caravella. "Bang Networks- The First Customer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 201-111, June 2001.
Alexander Civetta
Alex advises innovators and high-growth companies on the intersection of law and business, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, technology transactions, and negotiation. He is a lifecycle lawyer who counsels companies from formation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
products, thereby gaining a foothold in the $1 trillion global health-and-wellness food market. This could yield unprecedented opportunities for the 500 farmers in Cameroon from whom CassVita sources the produce. “I love using technology... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
What’s it like to appear on ABC-TV’s popular start-up series Shark Tank? In a word, nerve-wracking. Just ask Desiree Stolar and Nate Barbera (both MBA 2015), cofounders of Unshrinkit, a Harvard-born startup that has developed a formula... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean start-up, a methodology that has proven successful for many young high-tech companies. Are You a Level-Six Leader? Asking the question, Whom do you serve? is a... View Details
- March 1998 (Revised October 1998)
- Case
Siebel Systems (B)
By: Michael J. Roberts, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Nicole Tempest
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Sales; Information Technology Industry
Roberts, Michael J., Joseph B. Lassiter III, and Nicole Tempest. "Siebel Systems (B)." Harvard Business School Case 898-211, March 1998. (Revised October 1998.)
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
government and no tradition of tech innovation that we ever hear about," says Schroeder. "But to be surrounded by such a large quantity of young people—many of them women—who were unbelievably head-down, thinking about problems they wanted to solve with View Details
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Alan Braly
included launching a startup to commercialize an interventional oncology medical device. He was previously at Health Advances, a boutique healthcare strategy consulting firm, where he led engagements in diagnostics, therapeutics, medical... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
the strategies of lean experimentation, minimum viable product, bootstrapping, and staged investment are critical to startups in these emerging ecosystems, one needs to adapt the lessons from mature markets like Silicon Valley, New York,... View Details