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What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
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SPACs: What You Need to Know
Entrepreneurial finance 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
Covid Digital ArticleEconomic downturns, although challenging, can provide an opportunity for launching new companies and products. Raising capital for a startup during a... -
Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Business law and ethics Digital ArticleThink you're ready to take the leap and start your own business? If you haven't yet nailed down your business idea but know that entrepreneurship is the... -
How the VC Pitch Process Is Failing Female Entrepreneurs
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleWomen who venture into entrepreneurship are not poised to get a fair deal. The authors argue that bias within the VC industry is preventing funds from... -
Why the U.S. Innovation Ecosystem Is Slowing Down
Going public Digital ArticleThe data suggests that American innovation is sputtering: Productivity growth in the United States, which is powered by innovation, has been decelerating.... -
When It's OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleShould you use your gut feel or not? Recent research suggests that it can be useful, especially in highly uncertain circumstances where further data gathering... -
When You Pitch an Idea, Gestures Matter More Than Words
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleNew research reveals that your body language has a surprisingly large impact on potential investors. -
How to Make Startup Stock Options a Better Deal for Employees
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleVenture capital structures were set up for a world in which successful companies exited in six to eight years and didn't raise too much capital. Today,... -
How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing
Business and society Digital ArticleWe're used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley,... -
Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital
Going public Digital ArticleHow has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? In recent research, we examine a particular innovation that... -
Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It
Business models Digital ArticleA study of 918 startups in Israel seeking a first round of funding found that whether entrepreneurs emphasized the disruptive nature of their business... -
To Innovate Like a Startup, Make Decisions Like VCs Do
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe model for creating new growth that we see in successful innovation hubs everywhere involves two sides: the entrepreneurial side, responsible for managing... -
VC Stereotypes About Men and Women Aren't Supported by Performance Data
Gender Digital ArticleStudies show that female founders experience significant bias when it comes to receiving VC funding. To better understand this pervasive trend, the authors... -
When Founders Go Too Far
Boards 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 an... -
The Comprehensive Case for Investing More VC Money in Women-Led Startups
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleOnly 8% of venture capital (VC) firms in the U.S. have female partners and that lopsided gender composition may be hurting venture capital performance... -
What BMW's Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can't
Going public Digital ArticleIn 2012, one of us - Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant - accepted a new role at BMW's corporate R&D headquarters.... -
Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs - and It Affects How Much Funding They Get
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleA study of Q&A interactions between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs at the annual startup funding competition TechCrunch Disrupt New York City found... -
Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?
Climate change Digital ArticleEarlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. It marks the... -
We Recorded VCs' Conversations and Analyzed How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleWhen venture capitalists evaluate investment proposals, the language they use to describe the entrepreneurs who write them plays an important (but often...
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Scaling Circularity at Recykal (B)
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Scaling Circularity at Recykal (A)
Business models Case Study11.95View Details By early 2025, Rapidue Technologies (Recykal) had rapidly scaled its B2B managed marketplace, moving nearly 100,000 tonnes of recyclable material annually... -
Better Ventures: Backing Entrepreneurs Building a Better World (B)
Finance and investing Case Study5.00View Details This is a two-part case study. Part A covers Better Ventures seeking to raise $20 million for its first standalone fund between 2014 and 2016. Based in... -
Navigating Hyper Luxury: Chartering the Future of Ferretti Group
Competitive strategy Case Study11.95View Details In April 2025, Alberto Galassi, CEO of Ferretti Group, reflects on the company's journey from its 2012 bankruptcy to a dual public listing on the Hong... -
Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
Economic cycles and trends 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
Global strategy 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
Digital transformation 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
Business law 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)
AI and machine learning 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
Going public 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
Boards 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)
Finance and investing 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
Entrepreneurial financing 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
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
Entrepreneurial exit strategy 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
Corporate social responsibility 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
Financial crisis 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 (B)
Boards 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... -
Aptiv PLC Board of Directors (A)
Boards 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...
