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Voi Technology
Rayport, Jeffrey; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-820099-EEntrepreneurshipVoi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reachStarting at €8.20
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Raksul
Kominers, Scott Duke; Kotosaka, Masahiro; Sato, Nobuo; Kanno, AkikoCase HBS-819115-EEntrepreneurshipRaksul, 2018 Forbes Japan "Startup of the Year," ran an e-commerce platform drawing upon thousands of individual suppliers. Launched as a business-to-business printing services marketplace, Raksul had recently expanded to operate both a logistics/delivery marketplace and a television advertising marketplace. Each marketplace faces its own growth challenges; at the same time, the CEO must consider whether and how each marketplace can enhance the o...Starting at €8.20
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Delivering the Goods at Shippo
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Rayport, Jeffrey; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-817065-EEntrepreneurshipLaura Behrens Wu, CEO of software start-up Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo's e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping providers and print package labels, has been steady in the nine months since it went live. But traction with the firm's developer-friendly product, an API that allows la...Starting at €8.20
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Marketplace Design
Kominers, Scott DukeTeaching Note HBS-821068-EKnowledge and CommunicationStarting at €0.00
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Halliday's OASIS
Kominers, Scott Duke; Tempest Keller, NicoleCase HBS-819106-EEntrepreneurshipWade Watts has won control of the OASIS - a futuristic, immersive virtual reality game world. He must decide on rules, rights, and marketplace design, balancing the founding principles of the OASIS with the platform's potentially negative externalities.Starting at €8.20
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Updating Dating
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Lam, AlanCase HBS-818052-EEntrepreneurshipTo identify design ideas for their own startup, two MBAs compare the different profiling, matching, and monetization approaches employed by five incumbent dating services: Coffee Meets Bagel, OKCupid, Jiayuan, Dating Ring, and HurryDate.Starting at €8.20
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GRIT Fitness
Applegate, Lynda M.; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-820016-EEntrepreneurshipIn December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed her business had found a niche in a crowded industry by promoting female empowerment and psychological resilience through fitness. Rettig wanted to extend GRIT's reach to impact more ...Starting at €8.20
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Poppy (B)
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Huizinga, Jeff; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-820715-EEntrepreneurshipAvni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Poppy, an online marketplace for on-demand childcare, revisits the venture's final months, and discusses the steps she took in the wake of the shutdown. This case explores experiments the company conducted to refineStarting at €5.74
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Feeding America (B)
Kominers, Scott Duke; Lam, AlanCase HBS-818131-EEntrepreneurshipThis case describes how Feeding America, the third-largest nonprofit organization in the US, designed a marketplace for allocating donated food across its network of food banks. It considers the promises and pitfalls of using market-based allocation in the context of a centralized artificial currency market, and evaluates the importance of different design components in making the marketplace efficient and fair for all participants.Starting at €5.74
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Cadre
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Lane, DavidCase HBS-818058-EEntrepreneurshipLate in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for CRE equity investors. Cadre was a pioneering New York City-based startup, offering investors equity in individual commercial real estate properties that its investment team had sourced and vetted. Traditional private equity (PE) funds required ...Starting at €8.20