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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
spring, Moskowitz and five classmates launched a startup they call Boxxify to provide a solution. E-commerce customers have their packages delivered to Boxxify, which, for a $7 fee (regardless of number of items), drops them off with... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
inside the booth owned by tech startup Barared to do everything from place phone calls to pay bills, deposit money, and buy minutes for their mobile phones. It’s a convenience for her customers, Reyes says: Chimalhuacán has only two bank... View Details
- 18 Feb 2010
- News
A Mission to Improve Patients' Lives
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
misses.” Those misses have been pushed into the shadows by the hits in Breyer’s portfolio, including a once-little startup called Facebook. Breyer met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in April 2005. Within 48 hours he knew he wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Apr 2025
- News
Mothers of Invention
VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered how she could take maternity... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
Backed by $50 million in capital from three movie studios, startup Atom Tickets is planning a nationwide launch this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cofounded by Matthew Bakal (MBA 2004), Atom is entering a market as “first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
cities American startups are often geographically sorted by sector. Tech is in San Francisco, public policy is in DC, medical is in Orlando. And for a time, Europe was like that too, Rimer says: Israeli View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 07 Jan 2015
- News
Taking on risk
Having worked as an engineer at SpaceX and as an analyst at Oaktree Capital, Zach Lupei (MBA 2015) is now building a startup in the personal-finance space. (Published January 2015) View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- News
Venture Capital & Angel Investing - What We Know and Still Need to Learn
Keywords: Angel investing
- 30 May 2021
- News
How Venture Capitalist David Motley is Trying to Bring Back Pittsburgh’s Black Residents
much faster annual rate than other cities such as Chicago.” To help stem the tide, Motley has cofounded a $50 million fund focused on startups with Black and diverse founding teams, launched a nonprofit dedicated to getting more Black... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
Ina Foalea leads a brainstorming session in Morris Hall during this year’s Startup Lockdown. It is 6:30 p.m. on the Wednesday of Spring Break. But Ina Foalea (MBA 2018) is in work mode as she stretches out on the couch in the first-floor... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
banking system, the government should follow the lead of other countries and create “payment banks” that take little-to-no risk, are highly regulated, and have access to the payment network. Silicon Valley Bank’s Focus on Startups Was a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
financing and build a network of 25,000 vacation properties.” VacationSpot's success appealed to Murch's former colleagues at Expedia, who bought it in March 2000 for $82 million in stock options and brought Murch back on board as vice... View Details
- 01 Jan 2023
- News
The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
pursue your dream career; I'm in NY.'). "After a lot of introspection, I realized that I was truly passionate about entrepreneurship; and even in the hardest moments, when I was facing the wall in difficult operational and financing... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
the first in her extended family to attend college. Before starting Mirror Digital, she worked in the media and technology group at Morgan Stanley, executing corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions, and in strategic... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
says Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio (MBA 1977), who was among the founders of the nongovernmental organization and is currently chair of its finance committee. With that straightforward pitch, the upstart Fundación raised money quickly. An... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
startup pymetrics, solving the bias problem meant first acknowledging that humans are the most biased decision-makers of all. As a neuroscientist who spent 10 years studying the bias systems wired into our brains, Polli knew that... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Immelt has been busy disassembling significant elements of the conglomerate that he began leading four days before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Immelt’s goal was to make GE more streamlined, stripping away finance and consumer... View Details