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To Increase Your Shareholders’ Loyalty, Understand What Matters to Them
Finanças Empreendedoras Digital ArticleCreating profiles of your shareholders’ individual interests can help you speak directly to their concerns. -
Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve
Fundraising Digital ArticleInvolving people in the evolution of your idea makes them invested in its success. -
Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleVenture funding is scarce, valuations are down, and exit options are dwindling. What should founders do? -
Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleNominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact. -
What You Need to Know as a Young, Black Startup Founder
Start-ups POVThe obstacles you can expect to confront, and how to overcome them. -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Fundraising Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
Organizational change Digital ArticleLending to mid-market companies has fallen nearly 60% over the last year. -
For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost
Gender Digital ArticleNew research suggests that exclusive support from female investors may be a mixed blessing because it can make it harder to raise additional rounds of financing. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleYou might be surprised at what your acquirer will agree to — if you just ask. -
Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt’s in founders’ best interests to not only accept, but invite, oversight. -
Want to Raise Funds for Your Startup? Consider This Approach.
Entrepreneurial business strategy Digital ArticleCommunity-based funding gave my business the boost it needed. -
Nonprofit Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to ask for donations when donors are hurting too. -
Giving After Disasters
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAlthough the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept... -
AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks... -
Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt's a better long-term strategy. -
Why Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Should Use Their Money for Fundraising
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's what we need to tackle the biggest problems. -
How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEvery year in the United States billions of philanthropic dollars go to more than 1.5 million nonprofits--some of which use the money inefficiently. But...
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CVTrust and the Smart Certificate
Management Case Study11.95View Details When the dotcom bubble burst in March 2000, this did not stop the world from going digital, but it did poke holes in the concept of trust, especially... -
Entrepreneurship through acquisition: Vanessa Monestel's search fund
Management Case Study11.95View Details GENEVA (SWITZERLAND), OCTOBER 2023. Vanessa Monestel was ecstatic. a day earlier, she had just signed the letter of intent (LOI) to acquire an Amsterdam-based... -
Rwanda Electric Motors: Carbon Credit Monetisation
Management Case Study11.95View Details As a primary means of transport, motorcycle taxis were a significant contributor to Rwanda's air pollution. Lee Wee Chia and his friends set up Rwanda... -
Entrepreneurship through acquisition: Sébastien Perroud and the IAR Group
Management Case Study11.95View Details GENEVA (SWITZERLAND), AUGUST 2021. There was a lot at stake for Sébastien. This was the culmination of his 18-month NCA supported search journey to find... -
Rede Mulher Empreendedora: Navigating mission integrity and financial sustainability
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case focuses on Rede Mulher Empreendedora (RME), Brazil's largest support platform for female entrepreneurship, and its founder, Ana Fontes. Founded... -
HeliService International: Flying ahead
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case follows Oliver Freiland, a former Roland Berger consultant with a successful corporate career, in his quest for the right acquisition target.... -
FundingPartner: Navigating the Nordic Crowdlending Market
Management Case Study11.95View Details In December 2023, Geir Atle Bore, the CEO of the Norwegian crowdlending platform FundingPartner, is evaluating the company's growth strategies. Founded... -
Tesla's Convertible
Management Case Study11.95View Details On May 2, 2019, Dan Cohen, a financial analyst at Tesla, Inc., was tasked by the CFO team with proposing a thesis for issuing a convertible bond. Tesla... -
Safe in India: Casting Light on the Dark Side of Workers' Safety in the Automotive Industry
Management Case Study11.95View Details Set in 2023, the case documents the initiatives of the Safe in India Foundation (SII), a non-profit organisation, that aims to improve workers' safety... -
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Niagara: Changing the Course of Young Lives
Management Case Study11.95View Details Big Brothers Big Sisters of Niagara (BBBSN) was a not-for-profit (NFP) organization that offered mentoring and other programs for children and youth.... -
Convertible Notes in Early-Stage Financing
Management Case Study8.95View Details This technical note introduces convertible note financing for early-stage start-up companies. These unpriced securities offer significant advantages related... -
Kickstarter: Crowdfunding for the Arts
Management Case Study11.95View Details Kickstarter was a virtual crowdfunding platform and community that allowed creators of all kinds to raise funding for creative projects. The executive... -
Ada: Cultivating Investors
Management Case Study11.95View Details Mike Murchison, co-founder and CEO of Ada, has an enviable dilemma. Launched in 2016 by Murchison and his co-founder David Hariri, Ada is an AI-native... -
Stars and Rain: An Autism Rehabilitation Institute
Management Case Study11.95View Details The Beijing Stars and Rain Education Institute for Autism (Stars and Rain) was established in 1993 as the first private non-profit organization to provide... -
Sigma Ventures: Evaluating an Early-Stage Venture Capital Investment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details Sigma Ventures is a venture capital (VC) firm that invests in technology, intelligent manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer services companies in their... -
Sigma Ventures: Evaluating an Early-Stage Venture Capital Investment (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details Sigma Ventures is a venture capital (VC) firm that invests in technology, intelligent manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer services companies in their... -
Tea Leaf Trust: Providing More Than Education
Management Case Study11.95View Details Tea Leaf Trust (TLT), a non-profit vocational training centre, worked to develop young students into emotionally resilient change agents within their... -
Shri Ram Temple: A Fintech Solution for Large Scale Project
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on the challenges faced by the Shri Ram Janma Bhoomi Teerth Kshetra (SRJBTK) in managing the fund collection drive project for the construction... -
Heroic Gardens: How A Nonprofit Focused on Veterans Can Grow A Sustainable Funding Strategy
Management Case Study11.95View Details In early May 2022, Collie Turner, founder of award-winning non-profit organization Heroic Gardens, was looking to obtain additional revenue streams in... -
Clay Ridge Capital
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