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- 02 Dec 2020
- Video
New Founder Series: MVP Development
- 2013
- Book
Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts
By: Tom Eisenmann
Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup management, primarily for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided...
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Keywords:
Lean Startup;
Startup;
Prototyping;
MVP;
Minimum Viable Product;
Freemium;
SaaS;
A/B Testing;
Business Model
Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2013.
- January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning
By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Education Technology;
MVP;
Product Development;
Product Market Fit;
Monetization Strategy;
SaaS Business Models;
Education;
Personalized Learning
Kim, John J-H, and Christine S. An. "Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning." Harvard Business School Case 315-052, January 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
- Career Coach
Celia Chen
Having worked at McKinsey for 5 years in fintech and consumer/retail industries and Amazon as a senior product manager responsible for launching a new service, Celia is happy to speak to students interested in any of the fields. She can share her experience and...
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- March 2019 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
HelloSelf: Foundation
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On January 6, 2019, HelloSelf, a London-based “BrainTech” company, founded a year earlier by Charles Wells, soft launched. The proposition was simply to help its members “Be your Best Self.” The company provided its registered members with access to a clinical...
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Keywords:
Startup;
Start-up;
Startup Management;
Startup Marketing;
Startups;
Start-ups;
BrainTech;
Marketing Research;
Strategic Decision Making;
Strategy Development;
Strategy Dynamics;
Neuroscience;
Cognition;
Cognitive Psychology;
Health & Wellness;
Health Care;
Health Care Reform;
Health Care Outcomes;
Self-awareness;
Mental Health;
Wellbeing;
Wellness;
Funding;
Equity Financing;
Raising Capital;
Synergies;
Team Building;
National Health Insurance;
Artificial Intelligence;
MVP;
Business Startups;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Management;
Well-being;
Marketing Channels;
Decision Making;
Strategy;
Technology;
United Kingdom;
London
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "HelloSelf: Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 719-492, March 2019. (Revised June 2021.)
- Web
Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA
learn how to launch a new venture. MBA Voices Blog: Entrepreneurship Courses HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders UnfilteredChris Hutchens 04 SEP 2017 | MBA Voices The aim of the 10-day program was to provide both practical tools and hands-on guidance to help bring an...
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- 04 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered
inception to MVP (minimum viable product) in a short period of time. We covered things like running experiments to test a new business idea, finding early customers, calculating unit economics, and how to think about different types of...
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- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
features to allow useful feedback from early adopters. This makes it easier for the company to speed to market with subsequent customer-driven versions of the product. And it mitigates the likelihood of a company wasting time on features that nobody wants. "The...
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- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
The case “Andonix: Leading Innovation in Turbulent Times” looks at David Yanez, a Mexican factory worker who migrated to Detroit to found a new venture in 2017 that provided a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to empower—rather than replace—front-line workers....
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
history, who continued to practice, focusing on shaving milliseconds off his time. Phelps never stopped improving. Similarly, consider the career of Dirk Nowitzski, the first European player to win an MVP award after moving to the...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
test it with some users. So I went and did that. I used the $30,000 to pay a developer to work with me for a few months to build the first prototype of the product and tested it in Apple's beta testing platform TestFlight with about 30 users over three months. That...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Entrepreneurs’ Fund
month. Said Rumennik, “The Minimum Viable Product Fund, or MVP Fund, alleviates the daunting financial barrier preventing students from building initial prototypes or test products, and encourages them to connect with like-minded peers.”...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
The Business Plan Contest’s popularity is just one indicator of a surge in entrepreneurial activity at HBS, which this year saw the launch of a $50,000 MVP Fund to support students using the “Lean Startup” approach to develop and test a...
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Keywords:
Contests
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
Launching Technology Ventures explore an alternative path, one designed to sidestep many of the missteps: the lean startup methodology. The idea is to launch as quickly as possible with a minimum viable product (MVP). With only the barest minimum of features, View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
product (MVP) one could imagine, and I’m very grateful for the advice. Our extensive MVP testing at corporate offices allowed us to validate key assumptions of our business model and value proposition, e.g. more than 70% of our users...
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Entrepreneurship
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
would it cost to build/change/scale this? - is a frequent question in startup land (elsewhere too) where recruitment targets are typically behind schedule. In my case, I saw two main options to building a MVP (minimum viable product):...
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Keywords:
Technology
- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
disrupting the market. My heart was in Mexico, and so my partner and I started thinking about how we might be able to make an impact in this health care space. What progress have you made this year? We’ve opened our first MVP clinic in...
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- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
and improve knowledge and skills regularly ." Robert Soloman observed that the problem is not universal in that "companies that follow a lean methodology, where the initial focus is on a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) typically do not have this problem A proper...
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- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
something niche, something trying to push the envelope," she says, "a nimble, all-hands-on-deck, collaborative environment. And in New York." There you have it: Two of Super Bowl XLVIII's MVPs are now free agents. They're rested, and...
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