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10 Apr 2025
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Entrepreneurial Insights: Itamar Perlov, Founder and CEO of ecton

October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
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BulkWhiz: Negotiating as a Startup Founder in the UAE

By: Katherine Coffman, Christine Exley and Alpana Thapar

This case follows Amira Rashad as she founds BulkWhiz, a Dubai-based buy-in-bulk grocery delivery platform. Following its launch in September 2017, BulkWhiz experiences rapid growth of 30 percent per month in the United Arab Emirates. Despite this initial success,... View Details

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09 Dec 2021
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Andreessen Horowitz Founders Begin Slow Process of Stepping Back

13 Oct 2023
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Entrepreneurial Insights: Keta Burke-Williams, Founder and CEO of Ourside

17 Nov 2023

Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumnus, Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details

October 2011
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Jack Hughes, Founder and Chairman of TopCoder, In-class comments 4/8/11

By: David A. Garvin

TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Online Technology; Information Technology Industry

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25 Apr 2025
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Twenty25 Ventures To Fund Founders in HBS Class of 2025

12 Mar 2024
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Entrepreneurial Insights: Ellen DaSilva, Founder and CEO of Summer Health

07 Nov 2022
Podcast

Mumzworld Founder Mona Ataya: Empowering Women in the Middle East

Mumzworld is the largest online baby store in the Middle East. It was created by Mona Ataya, one of the most influential businesswomen in the region. Ataya is driven to empower women, motivate employees and benefit all of the company’s stakeholders. In this... View Details

18 Apr 2015
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Women in Business Q&A: Umaimah Mendhro, Founder & CEO, VIDA

Keywords: mindfulness; Dreamfly; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade; Textile Product Mills; Manufacturing

02 Aug 2023

Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumnus, Dimitri Dadiomov (MBA 2015), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details

09 Jun 2023
News

9 Alumnae Named to Inc's Female Founders 200

The new Female Founders 200 list from Inc. includes nine HBS alumnae from across the world of business. Inc. noted that their honorees were selected using criteria that included founders that have "moved the... View Details

09 Oct 2024
HBS Seminar

E. Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research's Plural Technology Collaboratory, Founder and Chair of the Plurality Institute

01 Jun 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman

October 2011
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An Interview with Jack Hughes, Founder and Chairman of TopCoder

By: David A. Garvin

TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,0000 developers who... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Online Technology; Information Technology Industry

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