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The Changing Face of Angel Investing
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Angel or Devil: Who’s Really Investing In Your Start-Up?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleInvestors can make entrepreneurs doubt their own abilities. -
Officenet (A): Making Entrepreneurship Work in Argentina
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes the creation and financing of Officenet, an office supply distributor in Argentina. The company serves the business-to-business market through... -
Term Sheet Negotiations: A "Rich-vs.-King" Approach
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details To give students and entrepreneurs a framework to guide their term-sheet negotiations with Venture Capitalists. -
Freedom Financial Network
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case follows Andrew Housser and Brad Stroh, two recent graduates from the Stanford GSB, as they search for a business opportunity and ultimately start... -
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,... -
Minova
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The protagonist ("Howard Glass") is a recent GSB graduate (2007) heading up a biomedical team start-up focused on the gastric bypass method. The case... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
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 […] -
Nantucket Nectars: The Exit
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The founders of Nantucket Nectars are trying to decide whether and how to sell their company. -
Verge Software (B): XMarkstheSpot
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product.