Venture funding

Instead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach.

How to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans.

There are some things a big company can do better than a startup.

New funding models are about to revolutionize the social sector.

In a year of uncertainty, VCs acted like funding female founders was risky - but the real risk is in leaving them behind.

How to think about your existing collaborations—and the new ones you should seek out

Four steps to help investors solicit clear feedback and build better relationships with entrepreneurs.

New research suggests that exclusive support from female investors may be a mixed blessing because it can make it harder to raise additional rounds of...

The more rivals you outbid, the more likely you are to have paid too much.

For 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,...

Research finds a new explanation for the gender gap in venture funding.

The obstacles you can expect to confront, and how to overcome them.

Most successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital.

Research reveals three ways they help early-stage companies achieve higher funding and survival rates.

It made the “spray and pray” approach more common.

Business won't change until entrepreneurship does.

Three proven strategies to make a difference.

Before it could become part of every iPhone, the “virtual personal assistant” had to cross innovation’s valley of death.

Photography: Courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery Artwork: Sara Hughes, Millions of Colours 3 (detail), 2003, acrylic paint on linen Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin: We celebrate these entrepreneurs for their successes, and often equally extol the venture capitalists who backed their start-ups and share in their glory. Well-known VC firms such […]

It actually makes success more likely.

In July 2017, the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada, grappled with mounting conservation costs, inconsistent and unreliable...

This Case Study examines the key skills and factors of entrepreneurial success, and how educational courses pertaining to entrepreneurship can be designed...

Case Study B is a continuation of building the entrepreneurial mindset using the BRiSK3MIND model in Case Study A. We would be following the journey of...

emmtrix Technologies GmbH (emmtrix) was a spinoff company from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, a leading German university, and a result of an...

The protagonist of the case is Robert Joseph (RJ) Scaringe, Rivian's founder and CEO. Rivian designs, develops, and manufactures electric adventure vehicles...

Kiah Williams started SIRUM as a Stanford undergraduate alongside her classmates Adam Kircher and George Wang. Nearly two decades later, the medication...

Compares and contrasts three different venture capital funds from the perspective of a potential investor. The first fund has a technology-enabled services...

B case to case 723011 Sitting quietly in the heart of the New Mexico desert in the summer of 2014, Spaceport America (SA) housed little of the activity...

The case is set in 2022, and the protagonist is Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, Inc. - an online rental platform. As the Covid-19 pandemic...

This case provides an overview of the venture debt industry with a focus on WTI, a leading venture debt provider. The case follows Maurice Werdegar, the...

The Auction Mobility case covers the founding of, and raising capital for, a new venture in the app industry. Doug Brenhouse and Jeremy Paradise (founders)...

The impact AI will have is profound, but the economic framework for understanding it is surprisingly simple. Artificial intelligence seems to do the impossible,...

Describes an "application software" company that has been through several evolutions--from consulting firm to applications service provider (ASP). The...

Zipcar is a start-up organized around the idea of "sharing" car usage via a membership organization. This case describes several iterations of the Zipcar...

Two months after a successful launch In November 2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether...

Lending firms like Partners for Growth (PFG) supplied growth capital to nascent companies, using debt instruments that did not dilute shareholders-contrary...

Mamaearth was founded by husband-and-wife duo Varun and Ghazal Alagh in 2016. The core value proposition of Mamaearth's offer focused on toxin-free, safe...

In late May 2020, the two founding and managing partners at Redhill Capital, in the Pearl River New City district of Guangzhou, China, were considering...

Anasazi, a hair-care products start-up based in the Midwest, is having growing pains as it tries to develop a new distribution model for the professional...

This case study examines the founding of Vitana, a dentistry-focused search fund founded by Ashish Bagai, Monika Srivastava, and Amir Fardshi. In this...

In July 2017, the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada, grappled with mounting conservation costs, inconsistent and unreliable...

Instead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach.

How to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans.

This Case Study examines the key skills and factors of entrepreneurial success, and how educational courses pertaining to entrepreneurship can be designed...

There are some things a big company can do better than a startup.

New funding models are about to revolutionize the social sector.

In a year of uncertainty, VCs acted like funding female founders was risky - but the real risk is in leaving them behind.

Case Study B is a continuation of building the entrepreneurial mindset using the BRiSK3MIND model in Case Study A. We would be following the journey of...

emmtrix Technologies GmbH (emmtrix) was a spinoff company from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, a leading German university, and a result of an...

How to think about your existing collaborations—and the new ones you should seek out