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Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve
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What You Need to Know as a Young, Black Startup Founder
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How to Attract the Right Shareholders
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Managing Shareholders in the Age of Stakeholder Capitalism
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In Entrepreneurial Pitches, Stage Presence Is Everything
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Do Algorithms Make Better — and Fairer — Investments Than Angel Investors?
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Is a Start-Up's Strength Becoming Its Weakness? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe creators of the start-up AndFound, an online platform that connects angel investors with a curated selection of promising start-ups, have a towering... -
Is a Start-Up's Strength Becoming Its Weakness? (HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe creators of the start-up AndFound, an online platform that connects angel investors with a curated selection of promising start-ups, have a towering... -
What Angel Investors Value Most When Choosing What to Fund
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Angel or Devil: Who’s Really Investing In Your Start-Up?
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A Wave of Angel Investing Organizations Focuses on Women
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleSocial entrepreneurs are hoping to feminize the start-up sector. -
HBR Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda
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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleEditors’ Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your email address. Gloria Londoño scanned the tables at the Opera restaurant. Victor Serna was sitting at […] -
Good Money After Bad? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleChristian Harbinson, a young associate at the venture capital firm Scharfstein Weekes, has a difficult decision to make before the next investment committee... -
Good Money After Bad? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleChristian Harbinson, a young associate at the venture capital firm Scharfstein Weekes, has a difficult decision to make before the next investment committee... -
Good Money After Bad? (HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleChristian Harbinson, a young associate at the venture capital firm Scharfstein Weekes, has a difficult decision to make before the next investment committee...
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The Chennai Angels Network
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case is intended to help the student learn about an important source of startup funding in India, namely, angels. It also provides an opportunity... -
Jason Calacanis: A Case Study in Creating Resources
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Jason Calacanis described himself as a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and podcaster - and someone who had come a long way from the time he had to... -
Beetle Beats: Finding a SOUND Market for ADT
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Dr. Richard Hofstetter was wondering what was to become of his acoustic disruption technology (ADT), a technology that used sounds to change behavior... -
AngelList in 2017
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Michigan's Social Venture Fund: Founding the Nation's First Student-Run Impact Investing Fund
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In the business environment surrounding the 2008 financial crisis, a new field within investing emerged to address the shortcomings of a "profit-only"... -
Pear VC
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, Mar Hershenson and Pejman Nozad teamed up to form Pear VC, a venture capital firm that invested in start-ups spanning three stages of company... -
CommonAngels Ventures
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Broadway Angels: Preparing for the Future
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Broadway Angels investment group represents one of the few women-run angel groups in Silicon Valley. The group was founded by some of the most illustrious... -
Entrepreneurship Reading: Developing Business Plans and Pitching Opportunities
40.00View Details Success in launching a new business depends on an entrepreneur's ability to clearly communicate the market opportunity, outline the proposed solution,... -
Elemental Technologies: The Seed Investment Dilemma
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A group of entrepreneurs pursues technologies that will allow much higher quality transmission and viewing of high definition video via the Internet.... -
Dropbox - Series B Financing
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In mid-2011, as global markets corrected amid worldwide economic uncertainty, Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, the fast-growing file synchronization... -
Angel Investments in Europe and Recent Developments in Crowdfunding
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This technical note provides information on the evolution and current state of angel investing in Europe. The note first describes the role and types... -
Morgan Stanley: Positioning to Be the Sustainability Finance Leader
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details It is five years since the Great Recession, and Morgan Stanley and its competitors are still trying to regain the confidence of investors. To that end,... -
A Note on Financing in Developing Economies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details As of the date of this note, financing environments varied significantly across developing economies. Differences in legal structures, operating conditions,... -
A Note on Funding Digital Innovation Startups
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This note provides information on the state of startup financing in Silicon Valley in 2013. It details different avenues startups have to raise funding,... -
AngelList
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In early 2010, Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi posted a list of angel investors on the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding... -
Bluefin Labs: The Acquisition by Twitter
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details What is the value of Bluefin Labs's social listening data to Twitter? Acquired by Twitter in 2013, Bluefin had built a system that gathered millions of... -
La Boulange: Exiting to a Large Strategic Buyer (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The La Boulange: Exiting to a Large Strategic Buyer case follows the evolution of the La Boulange bakery and café chain and its eventual buyout by Starbucks... -
La Boulange: Exiting to a Large Strategic Buyer (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The La Boulange: Exiting to a Large Strategic Buyer case follows the evolution of the La Boulange bakery and café chain and its eventual buyout by Starbucks... -
Value Partners and the Evergrande Situation
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In June 2012, Cheah Cheng-Hye and his colleagues at Value Partners, a Hong-Kong-based investment firm, received a copy of a short-seller report alleging...
