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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
pressing business challenges, such as managing creative employees, navigating the IPO process, and protecting intellectual property. Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur by Dermot Berkery (MBA ’91) (McGraw-Hill) This...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
contrarian, the Harvard MBA Indicator is bullish on stocks for 2014 but bearish on the tech sector. If (only if) that turns out to be right, you read it here!" —Ray Soifer (MBA 1965), chairman, Soifer Consulting "The Twitter IPO is a sign...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over time?” A123 raised $378 million through its View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value innovative tech and business models...
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Dan Morrell
- 07 May 2016
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Retail in the Blood
funded today and have got great support from our existing investor,” he told the Guardian recently. “We’ve got no immediate plans to IPO but we’d never rule out any source of fundraising.” READ MORE
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Retail Trade
- 24 May 2017
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Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
Excellence in Entrepreneurship 2011 Angie’s List IPO 2011 Joins DePauw University Board of Visitors 2014 Joins Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Board 2017 Angie’s List has more than 5 million members Cofounder and Chief Marketing Officer,...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
UK fintech doubled between 2016 and 2017, reaching an all-time high of $1.6 billion. CB Insights reports that 3 out of the top 10 global fintech deals in 2017 involved Chinese companies, while the 5 largest investor-backed fintech IPOs...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
in the country, and today Summit’s global operations have $14 billion under management. The firm has overseen more than 125 IPOs in a variety of sectors, including energy, health care, electronics, and business services. “Our goal was to...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
the four or five days surrounding the IPO in 1980. We bet the company at every board meeting.” Superpower: “I think I would say picking good people. I know the real thing when I see it. A lot of it is intuition.” Back to top John B. Hess...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith
every day. In addition to coffee, Starbucks offers tea, pastries, and gift packages; distributes coffee-flavored ice cream and beverages to supermarkets; and maintains the retail Web site starbucks.com. Smith oversaw the company's IPO in...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
leadership and changed the basic structure of Wall Street, as outlined in this excerpt from the chapter “Revolution in Investment Banking.” During their time together working on the Ford offering [in 1956, the largest-ever IPO to date],...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
companies seemed really intriguing, but we had a hard time looking past the current portfolio of challenged companies to see that there might be some big winners in these particular sectors. Data Domain went on to an IPO and then an...
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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Mar 2012
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She’s Got Your Back
than 2 million members who post some 40,000 reviews each month. The service expanded to include reviews of health-care professionals in 2008 and also offers a special subscriber list for buying and selling classic cars. An IPO in November...
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- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
there's still not a lot in the growth stage. What can we do to fix that? Dodi: Well, that's the million dollar question or billion dollar question. Because also across the board, the landscape has changed from even 10 years ago. We don’t have the number of View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
million, and earnings went from breakeven to $1.5 million after taxes. “The company was on really solid footing and growing rapidly,” says Rogers, paving the way for a $45 million IPO in 1981. Rogers and Cronk now had the cash and the...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
people’s lives.” And he did, first as a consultant to the airline industry and then as chief commercial officer at a low-cost Brazilian airline. But when the company’s IPO was called off and it was sold, Sadiq took a step that has come to...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Books
title of one chapter), these groups ignored several fundamental tenets of business development: choose leaders with experience, don't grow new companies too fast, and take companies to IPOs only after several quarters of profitability....
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
little bit more venture and speed it up?" He said, "I could’ve raised more money and IPOed in two less years, but I would've done so at tremendously more risk." That's really what I'm talking about with this camel approach is, in the face...
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