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- 01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
ignores life’s vicissitudes and a venture’s changing business requirements. Imposing vesting terms on themselves and their cofounders can offer some protection for founders and the venture. “Rich vs. King” is a concept that you’ve...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel...
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- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
like-minded people, birds of a feather in terms of interest in supporting these entrepreneurs. >Thomas Bittar (OPM50), founder of a venture capital fund in Brazil, we’re still...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
options. We decided to go for what we thought would be a winning investor team composed of a renowned venture firm and three large, industry-related business angels. A signed term View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
spend more time thinking about what a venture could become if things go well as opposed to worrying too much about what could go wrong. Jeff Bussgang (MBA 1995) Flybridge Capital Partners HBS Senior Lecturer...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
said of his decision to become CEO of CarStation.com, a Web site linking car owners, repair shops, insurers, and suppliers. Mature industries with established relationships can present barriers to minority entrepreneurs, Goldsberry observed, while the Internet "is...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998) came to it from a somewhat...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
settle into the new Science and Engineering Complex, which is right across the street from the Harvard Innovation Labs and adjacent to Harvard’s planned Enterprise Research Campus, the future home of company labs, startups, and venture...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a principal at Troy, a View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
university,” he offers, “is not only to turn out specialists but also to educate men and women who can discover connections between different fields of knowledge, and build those synergies into businesses with a powerful positive impact.” In his View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
ENRIQUEZ: People take too much for granted. PHOTO BY JEFF THIEBAUTH As CEO of Biotechonomy, a life-sciences research and venture capital firm, Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has examined the impact of life sciences...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief
manufacturing job. “The operations of a manufacturing business are very different from a capital business,” he adds. “Frankly, I’m still learning a lot every day.” And he’s putting that new knowledge into action. Last November, the...
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- 12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that...
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- 19 Nov 2014
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The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
systems, arts groups — typically have access to other resources.” The Bridgespan Group is experiencing the effects of the explosive growth in the nonprofit world. “There is tremendous demand for our services based on the dramatic expansion of the nonprofit sector both...
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