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The Founder’s Dilemma
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. -
Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship is more celebrated, studied, and desirable than ever. Business school students flock to courses on entrepreneurship. Managers, fearful of losing their step on the corporate ladder, yearn to step off on their own. Policymakers pin their hopes for job creation and economic growth on start-ups rather than on the once-preeminent corporate giants. Belief in […] -
Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhen Google announced that co-founder Larry Page was replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO, the official reason was to "streamline decision making" at the top.... -
Start-ups Have Office Politics, Too
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s important to admit it up front. -
Increase the Odds of Your Start-Up's Success
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive tips to make profitability more likely. -
Angel or Devil: Who’s Really Investing In Your Start-Up?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleInvestors can make entrepreneurs doubt their own abilities. -
The Top 20 Start-Up Accelerators in the U.S.
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleA quantitative ranking. -
What African Start-Ups Need to Do to Hire and Keep Great Talent
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA unique approach. -
When It Comes to Compensation, More Equity Isn’t Always Better
Careers ResearchResearch found that people often overestimate the value of stock options when assessing job offers at startups. -
Beyond Silicon Valley
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTechnology start-ups typically become successful by using injections of capital to grow as rapidly as possible and tolerating high risk in a rush for... -
Why It's So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive hurdles - and how to overcome them. -
Start-Ups Are Helping Consumers Make Better Health Care Purchases
Economics Digital ArticleSimply shifting costs won’t work. -
Can Start-Ups Help Turn the Tide?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAs the global economy continues to sputter, new businesses--and the jobs they create--are more important than ever. Here's a visual look at the factors... -
The Soul of a Start-Up
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleCompanies can sustain their entrepreneurial energy even as they grow. -
How Abortion Bans Will Stifle Health Care Innovation
Health care and treatment Digital ArticleInvestment in FemTech — diagnostic tools, products, and services related to women’s health — has exploded over the past decade. The Dobbs decision threatens its future. -
Research: How Long Should a Founder Remain CEO?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleOn average, their value-add tends to decline after an IPO. -
Why Start-Ups Replace Early Employees (and How to Keep Your Job)
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTwo factors determine who’s at risk. -
How Start-Ups Can Maintain Company Culture While Growing
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleOver the past three years, the number of employees at HubSpot has grown by over 800 percent. No company experiences that pace of growth without hitting... -
Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are So Important to the U.S.
Many of them are creating jobs. -
Corporate VCs Are Moving the Goalposts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the traditional approach to venture capital, an investment firm parcels out funds to a portfolio of start-ups, knowing that most will fail but that...
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Serious Materials
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Serious Materials is a start up who is moving into clean tech markets. The company's first product, QuietRock, originated the sound proofing drywall category... -
Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes... -
Momenta Corp. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Momenta is a one-month-old high-tech company founded by Kamran Elahian who has already helped found two other successful firms. Having faced problems... -
EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding... -
Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company... -
Gharpar: The Lean Beauty Start-up: Beauty done Comfortably (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series follows a series of events over the first two years of the life of GharPar (GP), a Lahore-based start-up that provides at-home beauty... -
Out for Blood: Tyler Shultz and Theranos (C)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case UV8435 -
The Future of SuperApps: Can We Live with Our Investor? (Part C)
Management Case Study5.00View Details The SuperApps series of cases presents student-entrepreneurs with some of the difficult non-operating problems they are sure to confront in their startups.... -
Codecademy: Monetizing a Movement?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Codecademy, an open-platform, online community for learning computer programming, launched in 2011. By 2014, the company had raised a total of $12.5 million... -
MyT Brewer (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details Amit Kasliwal was a participant of the Post Graduate Program for Executives at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2013 when he came up with... -
A Day in the Life of a Venture Capitalist
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This note describes the tasks that fill the working day of a venture capitalist. Those functions involved in investing (deal sourcing, due diligence,... -
Teradyne: The Aurora Project
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Three cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's line of semiconductor test equipment. Teradyne: Managing Strategic Change provides... -
Springy Fields: An Entrepreneur's Dilemma
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case highlights entrepreneur Tom Wilson's dilemma: he must decide how to expand Springy Fields, his adult sport and recreation business. After the... -
WLIM: SCALING UP A WEALTH MANAGEMENT BOUTIQUE
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Jonathan Lachowitz founded a start-up venture in the Financial Planning industry called White Lighthouse Investment Management in 2006. He targeted a... -
Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs
Strategy & Execution Book30.00View Details "Blue Ocean Strategy," the #1 global bestseller, forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Now W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne offer up a bold,... -
Steve Mariotti and NFTE
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Less than three years ago, Steve Mariotti created NFTE, a nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The organization... -
Data Analytics-Driven E-Commerce for the Small Seller: Zilingo
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Zilingo, a play on the word 'Zillions', is an online e-commerce platform for selling fashion products and was founded by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor... -
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious... -
Enstitute
Management Case Study11.95View Details Case on a social venture that could not scale beyond the founder, despite significant investment enthusiasm. -
Aspen Technology, Inc.: Currency Hedging Review
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The chief financial officer of a rapidly growing U.S.-based software firm that sells its process-control software to industrial users around the globe...
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The Founder’s Dilemma
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. -
Serious Materials
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Serious Materials is a start up who is moving into clean tech markets. The company's first product, QuietRock, originated the sound proofing drywall category... -
Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes... -
Momenta Corp. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Momenta is a one-month-old high-tech company founded by Kamran Elahian who has already helped found two other successful firms. Having faced problems... -
EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding... -
Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship is more celebrated, studied, and desirable than ever. Business school students flock to courses on entrepreneurship. Managers, fearful of losing their step on the corporate ladder, yearn to step off on their own. Policymakers pin their hopes for job creation and economic growth on start-ups rather than on the once-preeminent corporate giants. Belief in […] -
Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company... -
Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhen Google announced that co-founder Larry Page was replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO, the official reason was to "streamline decision making" at the top.... -
Start-ups Have Office Politics, Too
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s important to admit it up front. -
Gharpar: The Lean Beauty Start-up: Beauty done Comfortably (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series follows a series of events over the first two years of the life of GharPar (GP), a Lahore-based start-up that provides at-home beauty...