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Women in Venture Capital - Teaching Note
Glynn, J; Hsia, TTeaching Note SGSB-E509TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe case provides an overview and history of women in venture capital. The case examines the lack of funding that female entrepreneurs have had in the past. The case focuses on 4 women at venture capital firms: Sharon Wienbar (Scale VP), Joyce Chung (Garage Technology Venture Partners), Patricia Nakache (Trinity Ventures), and Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Venture).Starting at €0.00
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Evenbrite: Market Sizing, Competitive Analysis, and Fundraising - Teaching Note
Levav, J; Rauh, J; Luther, JTeaching Note SGSB-E510TN-EEntrepreneurship“Raise money when times are good.” Kevin Hartz mulled over this expression as he examined the term sheet before him. The CEO had become somewhat of a masterful fundraiser. Since founding the online event and ticketing service Eventbrite in 2006, Kevin, his wife Julia, and co-founder Renaud Visage had raised $80 million over six rounds of financing. Now, the Hartzes and Visage had before them an offer from Tiger Global Management and T. Rowe P...Starting at €0.00
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Bonobos, Inc. Building a Technical Team - Teaching Note
Grousbeck, I; Yin, LiTeaching Note SGSB-E514TN-EEntrepreneurshipThis case follows CEO Andy Dunn as he struggles to build a technical team that will enable Bonobos, an ecommerce and menswear company, to scale. The case also outlines the path that leads Dunn to the CEO post. Three vignettes compose the main body of the case. The first vignette deals with Dunn’s struggles in getting Bonobos’ engineering team to put forth greater effort. With the company falling behind its technical milestones, Dunn finds tha...Starting at €0.00
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AngelList: Changing The Landscape of Investing - Teaching Note
Siegel, R; Yin, LiTeaching Note SGSB-E520TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe case follows AngelList, an online platform connecting entrepreneurs with investors, as it searches for product/market fit and business models. Founded in 2010 by entrepreneurs Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, AngelList begins as a project to give back to the start-up community. Ravikant and Nivi write a blog that provides founders with advice and then build AngelList to give them access to investors. However, investors often have incentives ...Starting at €0.00
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Axel Springer in 2014: Strategic Leadership of the Digital Media Transformation - Teaching Note
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Luther, JTeaching Note SGSB-E522TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2013, Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the publishing house Axel Springer SE, a premier source of content in Germany, with its popular newspapers and magazines such as Bild and Die Welt, was evaluating the progress of his company’s digital transformation. The advent of the digital revolution at the end of the twentieth century had caused an appreciable shift in the publishing industry. Traditional print media players were confronted with major techno...Starting at €0.00
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Convenient MD - Teaching note
Grousbekc, I, H; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E550TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe ConvenientMD case highlights the role of emotion and ambiguity in business interactions. ConvenientMD, led by co-CEOs Gareth Dickens and Max Puyanic, operated urgent care centers (UCCs) in the northeastern United States. UCCs are medical facilities that provide treatment for a variety of injuries and illnesses at a fraction of the cost of hospitals. The case, which examines ConvenientMD in its nascent and high-growth years, is divided into...Starting at €0.00
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Off Grid Electric: Strategic Financing For Growth - Teaching note
Siegelman, R; McAteer, ETeaching Note SGSB-E556TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe Off Grid Electric case focuses on the creation, growth, and financing of the company from 2011 through the middle of 2014. The three cofounders saw an opportunity to provide solar electricity to much of Africa through their solar-as-a-service solution, which they launched in Tanzania in 2012. The Off Grid Electric business model was very capital intensive, and the new venture had several risks from the perspective of investors: market, busi...Starting at €0.00
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Coley Andrews - Teaching note
Grousbekc, I; Rosenthal, STeaching Note SGSB-E567TN-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case E567Starting at €0.00
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Practice Fusion - Teaching note
Chess, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E589TN-EEntrepreneurshipCentered on Practice Fusion, a free web-based electronic health record (EHR) company based in San Francisco, the Practice Fusion case examines the rapid growth of EHR systems in the United States from 2009 to 2014. The case discusses the challenges associated with adopting an EHR system (also referred to as an electronic medical record [EMR] system) from the standpoint of health care providers, both large and small. It also examines the benefit...Starting at €0.00
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Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source Software - Teaching note
Siegel, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E600TN-EEntrepreneurship“Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source Software” explores the challenges associated with building a company on top of open source software. In 2013, Florian Leibert, Ben Hindman, and Tobias Knaup founded Mesosphere. By combining proprietary software products with an open source software called Apache Mesos, Mesosphere developed a single platform called the datacenter operating system (DC/OS). With the DC/OS, companies could ...Starting at €0.00