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- 15 Dec 2011
- News
Chasing the New Angel Investors
- 01 Oct 2015
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The Rise of the Angel Investor
- 30 Nov 2017
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New Study Sheds Light on Angel Investors in the US Economy
- 02 Dec 2013
- News
What You Need to Know to Become an Angel Investor
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
Last fall, the HBS Club of Greater New York hosted an innovative conference designed to give would-be entrepreneurs a boost in meeting one of the greatest challenges for any new venture: finding start-up capital. Held in September in New York City, the View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
movement surged in the last year, 75% of VCs now believe they can invest in founders of color and have outsized returns.” With 11 companies in their latest cohort, Harris and Vilma shared their insights on how they choose entrepreneurs for the accelerator and how...
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Margie Kelley
- 28 Jan 2015
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Our Women Mean Business: Encore Careers After 40
- 01 Dec 2008
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Use bailout money for new ventures, not old ones
- 09 Sep 2015
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Entrepreneurship: Increasingly, the Province of the Wealthy
- 02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups
Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors...
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Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel...
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- 15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
kirana-store experience. “I always wondered why so many kiranas fail, and I decided to dig deeper into that,” she explains. An angel investor in her travel venture introduced Shruti to Manish Kumar, an...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
supportive community it gave us in which to learn and grow as entrepreneurs.” After earning prize money as runners-up in both the HBS New Venture Competition and the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, the founders secured funding from a variety of sources,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2023
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Venturing Forth
period stretching from the late 2010s to 2021 saw a rash of seed funds, incubators, angel investors, and crowdfunding platforms all arrive on the scene, plying early stage companies with cash. Meanwhile, the massive VC firms were raising...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Flying High
sleek black paint job and just 16 hand-stitched leather seats. Its routes run from private terminals, often at smaller metropolitan airports—such as Van Nuys in Los Angeles and Farnborough near London—to vacation destinations including...
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aviation;
airlines;
entrepreneurship;
leadership;
innovation;
Air Transportation;
Transportation
- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
with a $50 million government-backed fund that saw one of the country's first exits in 2011—an ISP called Link.net. That was one of an accumulation of tipping points, notes Ismail. "In 2012, 2013, we started getting the first attempts at incubators, accelerators, View Details
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entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her...
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