Business Startups - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Aug 2013
News

Student-Loan Load Kills Startup Dreams

31 Jul 2014
News

How 4 Successful Entrepreneurs Came Back After Startup Failure

01 May 2013
News

Harvard Business School Splits $50K Between 10 Student Startups Dedicated to Going Lean

May 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa

By: Paul A. Gompers, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal

Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of operations, Djoli must look beyond MStudio, which had supported them financially and in kind in exchange for equity,... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Distribution Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Côte d'Ivoire

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26 Jun 2013
News

Upstarts Raise Money for Startups

Keywords: Finance; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

13 Nov 2020
News

Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

business and pursue their own ventures—whether they are just starting out with a great idea or are ready to go to market. In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, a number of current and former teams in the Venture Program doubled... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

Green shoots: the irresistible rise of the clean tech startup

16 Jun 2021
News

There's No Business Like Your Own Business: Six Essential Tips To Launching A Successful Startup

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

More entrepreneurs are receiving initial funding from VCs thanks to technologies such as the cloud. Source: PeopleImages As cloud technologies allow startups to build companies faster and cheaper than ever before, venture capitalists are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

04 Dec 2017
News

Pittsburgh's Legendary Straight-Talking Startup Advisor

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

May 13, 2021
Article

Why Today's Startups Pursue Both Ideas and Ideals

By: Ranjay Gulati

Startups typically operate with the mentality that growth and profit come first, higher calling comes second. This strategy, however, is misguided. Increasingly, entrepreneurs are imbuing their ventures with a grand ideal in addition to a great idea. This ideal not... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Moral Sensibility; Business Startups

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23 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

Before launching new products, entrepreneurs are often filled with doubt: Will their ideas successfully take off in the marketplace—or will they fall flat? To cut down on uncertainty, creators can post their inventions on platforms such as Product Hunt, where early... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding