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- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
When Noam Wasserman (HBS MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the "fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- January 2025
- Teaching Note
AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup
By: Frank Nagle and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-444. In 2024, AI agent startup company AGENTS.inc faced multiple strategic decisions that could shape the company’s ability to grow into the future AI agent market leader. View Details
- 2021
- Book
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
Why Startups Fail explores entrepreneurial failure, examining its predictable patterns, how to avoid them, and how to cope when failure does occur. Part I looks at three common failure patterns for early-stage startups, illustrating each with an anchor case... View Details
Eisenmann, Thomas R. Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success. New York: Currency, 2021.
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
How 4 Successful Entrepreneurs Came Back After Startup Failure
- 14 Aug 2013
- News
Student-Loan Load Kills Startup Dreams
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
Upstarts Raise Money for Startups
- May 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
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
Gompers, Paul A., Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Temitayo Lawal. "MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa." Harvard Business School Case 824-183, May 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- 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
- 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
- 31 May 2012
- News
Three Pitfalls Startup Founders Must Avoid
- 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
- 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
Gulati, Ranjay. "Why Today's Startups Pursue Both Ideas and Ideals." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 13, 2021).
- 27 Aug 2010
- News
Startup TeamBuy uses Chinese bargaining model
- 31 Mar 2020
- News