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- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot of these private companies... View Details
- 17 May 2021
- News
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
School Founders By Catalina Daniels (MBA 1991) and James H. Sherman (MBA 1991) Harper Business Would-be-entrepreneurs Catalina Daniels and James Sherman studied the nuts-and-bolts of entrepreneurship as classmates at HBS. Years later, after successfully founding and... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and we want to find resources to help you continue to serve your communities in even stronger ways. We felt like it was flipping the script of the traditional, sad scene in so many newsrooms over the last couple of decades, in which the new owners show up with pink... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the organization from the past and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
healthcare is rationed, the retirement age is 75, and exit permits are required to leave the country. Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future from Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising Asia. Vol. II. edited by Tony Teo (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
an executive at several food companies, Silk had revived other century-old brands such as Jell-O, Lea & Perrins, Hebrew National, and Armour. Based on those successes, New York–based hedge fund York Capital Management asked Silk to become... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
of VCs: We’re going to take a lot of bets early on, and most of those aren’t going to pan out, but the ones that do will be very successful. That was new. “Have VCs gotten too caught up in chasing the cheap experiment sectors? Who will View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
probably the most recent or challenging one was a setback of a fund that I was a partner in, that actually lost a number of key partners and hit a key man risk issue where the fund was frozen and we ended up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
close to home. Today, 75 percent of diners use Bookalokal in their own city, while the remaining 25 percent use it abroad. From Brussels, Bookalokal has grown organically, now including thousands of users and 300-plus hosts in more than 20 countries. The company closed... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Applegate said. Steve Collens, CEO of MATTER, a health care startup incubator, and Kevin Willer, a partner at Chicago Ventures, agreed that entrepreneurial activity in Chicago really started to take off in 2010 and 2011, when a critical mass of companies that had made... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
market and exit opportunity? Or should NextGen Jane choose the tool most likely to be adopted by ob-gyns to manage their patient populations? The Answers: The idealistic answer is to focus on the gynecological disease that affects the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
increased (and ditto in revenue), the founders felt hamstrung by having just one flavor. In 2015 Philp turned to Bulletin readers for advice on funding the launch of a second flavor and the resulting growth that they hoped would tip them... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
This book will teach you how to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, from beginning to end, and walk you, step-by-step, through idea formulation, product/market validation, value realization, and exit strategy. On the Road Less Traveled:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
proceeds into the new deal, the only investors asked to do so. After considering the time we already had been in it, and that it would be a cross-fund investment (touting to one fund what a great exit it was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
attracted about $46 billion in funding in 2019. But perhaps tellingly, that $46 billion was down from 2018’s $64 billion. And the Silicon Valley model for building startups has begun to show cracks. For one thing, there is only so much... View Details