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05 Nov 2013
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Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

they are past the start-up phase but still haven't generated significant growth and sales. Wilkins says the emergence of a number of organizations like his, which are dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs, is proof of New Orleans' status... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

December 2008
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Codman Academy: Beyond the Start-up Phase (TN)

By: Stacey M. Childress

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22 May 2012
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Politicians can find start-ups hard to resist

17 Aug 2018
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How your peers can help your start-up

April 2009
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Orchid Partners: A Venture Capital Start-up (TN)

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence

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18 Aug 2014
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Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It’s 1999

June 16, 2011
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Start-up Revolution: Green Shoots of an Entrepreneurial Spring

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Daniel Isenberg

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23 Feb 2012
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What Start-Ups Can Teach Big Companies About Service

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14 Nov 2012
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Aussie start-up Tiggly guns for $200,000 US fundraise

Keywords: software; ipad; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

January 2002
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Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

By: Scott Shane and Toby E. Stuart

The question of how initial resource endowments—the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding—affect organizational life chances is one of significant interest in organizational ecology, evolutionary... View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Research; Company History; Initial Public Offering; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans

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22 Nov 2015
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Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job

A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service founded by Jessica Beck (MBA 2015) and Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015): Unlike View Details

September 2022
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Experimentation and Start-up Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji

Recent scholarship has argued that experimentation should be the organizing principle for entrepreneurial strategy. Experimentation leads to organizational learning, which drives improvements in firm performance. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the... View Details

Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Organizational Learning; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Learning; Performance; Decision Making

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Start-Ups That Last: How to Scale Your Business

By: Ranjay Gulati and Alicia DeSantola

Keywords: Organizational Growth; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship

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06 Dec 2011
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With a Leaner Model, Start-Ups Reach Further Afield

20 Dec 2010
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Harvard Business School Launches Fund for Student Start-Ups

February 2024
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Oak Street Health: From Start-up to Strategic Acquisition

By: Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee

Oak Street Health opened its first primary care center for seniors in underserved communities in 2013. By 2022 the company had 169 centers and a market valuation exceeding $10 billion. Oak Street created value by accepting risk-adjusted, capitated payments for Medicare... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Health Industry

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