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How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA guide for the curious and the perplexed -
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. -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there's another option. -
Private Equity and the Ownership Decision
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA few months back I wrote about micro-decisions and how they can add up to macro money. But as a student of decision-making I would be remiss if I didn't... -
Don't Build Your Startup Outside of Silicon Valley
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe deck is stacked against entrepreneurs who aren't in San Francisco Bay, New York, or Boston. -
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... -
In India, Distribution is God
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThere are billions of potential customers, but can you reach them? -
Do Politics Shape Buyout Performance?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA new study of private equity buyouts shows that, on average, U.S. acquisitions made in "red" (Republican) states deliver significantly higher returns... -
When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTo succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and... -
Bringing Silicon Valley Inside
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleIn Silicon Valley, exciting new business ideas rapidly attract capital and talent away from less worthy ventures. But in big companies, ideas, capital, and talent are stagnant—prisoners of traditional bureaucratic ways of allocating resources. To capture the Valley’s entrepreneurial magic, your company needs to move from resource allocation to resource attraction. -
Too Soon to IPO? (HBR Case Study)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFour years ago, Diane Ashton and Sundeep Lal were working together at MIT on a titanium extraction project. Durable and highly heat resistant, titanium... -
In Entrepreneurial Pitches, Stage Presence Is Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleRecent research suggests that how new business ideas are presented may matter more than the quality of the ideas themselves. -
How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's more global, more urban, and more winner-take-all. -
Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThere are two views on entrepreneurship in America: the first (largely feigned), that it is a pure virtue like freedom of speech or religion, and the second (real) attitude that it is largely a game for the naïve. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and […] -
Private Equity Needs a New Talent Strategy
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHigher interest rates and competition have changed the nature of the business. Now the industry must find a new approach to developing leaders.
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Fast Ion Battery
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details John Davidson, a partner at Ware Street Capital (WSC) and a board member at Fast Ion Battery, had just received a phone call from Don Lerner at Bluelock... -
Better Ventures: Backing Entrepreneurs Building a Better World
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case centers on BV as it seeks to raise $20 million for its first standalone fund between 2014 and 2016. Wes Selke and Rick Moss, the two BV co-founders,... -
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Valuation and Distribution in Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Introduces the issues attendant to valuing privately held portfolios and distributing thinly traded stock. Although they have existed since the beginning... -
Patanjali Ayurved: Valuation of an Unusual FMCG Company in India
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details An investment analyst at a fictional wealth fund (SWF) is concentrating on India's high-growth, high-potential fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector... -
R&R
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Outlines alternative mechanisms for getting into business. Shows the means by which an experienced entrepreneur can gain control over the necessary resources... -
From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel's strong innovation track record and the country's... -
SKS Microfinance (Abridged)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions... -
MuMate: Funding Growth
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Chasm Security: Facing the Technology Startup's Dilemmas (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case series describes the dilemmas encountered by Shenzhen Chasm Security Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Chasm Security") in its three rounds of funding... -
Private Equity Real Estate Investors - Overcoming the challenge of Sustainability & ESG: Pro-invest Group's ESG Journey
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the ESG journey of Pro-invest Group, an asset management and investment firm specialising in private equity real estate across the... -
UpDown: Confidential Instructions for GEORG
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Michael Reich is having severe doubts about how he split the equity with his co-founders two months ago, when they completed a one-page "November Agreement."... -
Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Homestrings is an online investment platform for overseas diasporas to link financially with their home countries. The founder believes crowd-funding... -
Impossible Foods
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3i Group plc
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Brian Larcombe, CEO of 3i Group, one of the world's largest private equity firms and one of the few publicly listed ones, is deciding how best to use... -
Maricopa, Inc.: Finding the Right Treatment for Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The founders of Maricopa, Inc., a startup that sold proprietery hair-care products directly to salons, were preparing a board presentation to address... -
TowerBrook: ESG in Action (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details This case is the second of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment... -
Wireless Telecom Negotiation Instructions: Tad Frechette and His Management Team
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A confidential instruction to one of the teams in the Wireless Telecom Negotiation case. -
Value Partners and the Evergrande Situation
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details In June 2012, Cheah Cheng-Hye and his colleagues at Value Partners, a Hong-Kong-based investment firm, received a copy of a short-seller report alleging... -
OurCrowd: Growing a Crowdfunding Platform in a VC World
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case features the challenges of a startup in the crowdfunding space in 2015 as its leadership assesses potential sources of growth for the company's...
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How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA guide for the curious and the perplexed -
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. -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there's another option. -
Fast Ion Battery
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details John Davidson, a partner at Ware Street Capital (WSC) and a board member at Fast Ion Battery, had just received a phone call from Don Lerner at Bluelock... -
Incubator Directory (Excel Version)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Other Article495.00View Details This is a directory of more than 300 business incubators operating around the world. The directory contains names of incubators as well as contact information,...