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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. -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleSpecial purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they've taken off in the... -
How to Launch a Startup in the Post-Covid Era
Global Business Digital ArticleUnderstand the market and the needs of the consumer to stay in the game. -
Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleLessons from the founder of Schmidt's Naturals. -
How the VC Pitch Process Is Failing Female Entrepreneurs
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleAnd why it needs to end. -
Why the U.S. Innovation Ecosystem Is Slowing Down
Innovation & Leadership ResearchResearch shows how corporate and scientific R&D have splintered since the 1970s. -
When It's OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleMore data isn't always helpful. -
How to Make Startup Stock Options a Better Deal for Employees
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhen companies stay private longer, stock options are less appealing. -
How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's more global, more urban, and more winner-take-all. -
Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt made the "spray and pray" approach more common. -
Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBased on a study of 918 Israeli companies. -
To Innovate Like a Startup, Make Decisions Like VCs Do
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt's not enough to be lean. -
VC Stereotypes About Men and Women Aren't Supported by Performance Data
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA study of Swedish startups. -
When Founders Go Too Far
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleSilicon Valley venture capitalists used to routinely oust start-up founders--who were viewed as green and unskilled--as part of the process leading to... -
The Comprehensive Case for Investing More VC Money in Women-Led Startups
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleAnd for hiring more female investors. -
What BMW's Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can't
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleClients. -
Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs - and It Affects How Much Funding They Get
Innovation & Leadership ResearchResearch finds a new explanation for the gender gap in venture funding. -
Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?
Global Business ResearchCleantech investments and patents are down. -
We Recorded VCs' Conversations and Analyzed How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFindings from a language analysis study in Sweden.
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Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
Management Case Study11.95View Details In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a... -
Keurig: A Return to Growth
Management Case Study11.95View Details By the early 2010s, Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) had lost the momentum that had made it the name in at-home coffee brewing in North America. Following... -
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
Management Case Study11.95View Details In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based... -
Nomad: A License to Bank
Management Case Study11.95View Details In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to... -
Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group... -
ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm
Management Case Study11.95View Details "For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow"-Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory... -
Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO
Management Case Study11.95View Details In Spring 2023, SECO CEO Massimo Mauri had the ambition to grow the €200 million revenue technology company to a €1 billion company by 2030. Founded in... -
Broadway Angels (2022)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group's future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena... -
AirAsia Malaysia: The IPO Decision
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case, "AirAsia Malaysia: The IPO Decision", presents the situation faced by Tony Fernandes, founder and CEO of AirAsia Berhad (AAB), when he and his... -
AppHarvest: Rebuilding the Appalachian Economy Through Agriculture
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2021, AppHarvest completed construction of a 60-acre indoor farming facility, one of the world's largest, recorded its first sales, and went public... -
Impactful Investments and Exits: Angeleno Group and GT Solar
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Angeleno Group, a clean energy private equity firm co-founded by Yaniv Tepper, is assessing a potential exit from a major acquisition in the solar power... -
Luminar and the Rise of SPACs
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Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services... -
Yale Investments Office: November 2020
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments-hedge... -
Aptiv PLC Board of Directors (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Aptiv's board must decide whether a joint venture with an auto maker is the right next step in the company's efforts to develop and commercialize a production-ready... -
Aptiv PLC Board of Directors (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Aptiv's board must decide whether a joint venture with an auto maker is the right next step in the company's efforts to develop and commercialize a production-ready... -
Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street
Finance & Accounting Book30.00View Details Brian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: "Coinbase, the easiest... -
Yuser: Funding Start-up Growth with Token Issuance?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Yuser Inc. (Yuser) was a young Canadian start-up based in London, Ontario, and focused on developing a gamified media sharing mobile application to help... -
AfricInvest: A Pan-African Investment Platform
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case is set in December 2018, when Ziad Oueslati, co-managing director and co-founder of AfricInvest, a leading pan-African private equity firm headquartered... -
COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in...
