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How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleNo matter how creative and ambitious they may be, nonprofits that rely solely on donations and grants to finance their growth often fall short. One way... -
AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks... -
For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost
Gender Digital ArticleNew research suggests that exclusive support from female investors may be a mixed blessing because it can make it harder to raise additional rounds of financing. -
How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
Organizational change Digital ArticleLending to mid-market companies has fallen nearly 60% over the last year. -
Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInvolving people in the evolution of your idea makes them invested in its success. -
Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleVenture funding is scarce, valuations are down, and exit options are dwindling. What should founders do? -
What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleYou might be surprised at what your acquirer will agree to — if you just ask. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
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How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEvery year in the United States billions of philanthropic dollars go to more than 1.5 million nonprofits--some of which use the money inefficiently. But... -
Want to Raise Funds for Your Startup? Consider This Approach.
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleCommunity-based funding gave my business the boost it needed. -
What You Need to Know as a Young, Black Startup Founder
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Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt’s in founders’ best interests to not only accept, but invite, oversight. -
Giving After Disasters
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAlthough the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept... -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
Why Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Should Use Their Money for Fundraising
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's what we need to tackle the biggest problems. -
Nonprofit Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to ask for donations when donors are hurting too.
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Qualtrics: Bootstrapping Growth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In March 2012 the founders of Qualtrics sat together in the Provo, Utah, office of advisor Duff Thompson. They stared down one of the toughest decisions... -
Shri Ram Temple: A Fintech Solution for Large Scale Project
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on the challenges faced by the Shri Ram Janma Bhoomi Teerth Kshetra (SRJBTK) in managing the fund collection drive project for the construction... -
Tender
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Tender case follows the journey of Miles Parker from his early days of joining an equipment financing company as a partner to the company's founder,... -
Root Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 1999, Root Capital had loaned $150 million to nearly 250 small and growing businesses, mainly in Latin America. In 2009, as the organization... -
Get Your Venture Backed with Persuasive Data Viz: An HBR Collection for Building the Perfect Pitch Deck
Communication Book65.00View Details Communicating your idea in a clear, compelling, and persuasive manner is critical when trying to launch a new venture. This Harvard Business Review collection... -
Crowdfunding: A Tale of Two Campaigns
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Crowdfunding is considered an alternative to traditional angel and venture capital funding that has helped get many business ventures off the ground.... -
Flying the Coop: TeleSign's Incubator Exit
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ryan Disraeli, Darren Berkovitz, and Stacy Stubblefield co-founded TeleSign, an internet security company, while employees in an incubator called Curious... -
Retail Services & Technologies
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the tumultuous experience Eduardo Ruiz had as CEO of Retail Services & Technologies. Ruiz had acquired Arizona-based RST at the end... -
Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Dana Hall is a private all-girls school in New England facing a crisis in its mission. As social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's... -
Gobi Partners: Raising Fund II
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The three founding partners of Gobi Partners, a venture capital fund investing in early start IT and digital media companies in China, are planning to... -
Waze: Product Evolution and Fundraising
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Waze successfully developed a free smartphone mapping application that gave consumers turn-by-turn directions and real-time traffic data. This digital... -
Julie Hallman at the Falaise Foundation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In May 2014, Julie Hallman was about to assume the presidency of the struggling non-profit arts organization, the Falaise Foundation, which offered a... -
iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case opens in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the... -
SoLa Impact and The Billion Dollar Social Impact Fund
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details SoLa Impact upended the traditional affordable housing industry by delivering high-quality housing to low-income tenants and double-digit financial returns... -
Growing a Global Forest: Ant Financial, Alipay, and the Ant Forest
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case is set in January 2019, when Di Xu, the team leader of Ant Forest, a green initiative within the Chinese payment and lifestyle app Alipay, is... -
Tesla's Convertible
Management Case Study11.95View Details On May 2, 2019, Dan Cohen, a financial analyst at Tesla, Inc., was tasked by the CFO team with proposing a thesis for issuing a convertible bond. Tesla... -
Tea Leaf Trust: Providing More Than Education
Management Case Study11.95View Details Tea Leaf Trust (TLT), a non-profit vocational training centre, worked to develop young students into emotionally resilient change agents within their... -
Art With Impact: Non-Profit Fundraising
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Since its founding in 2011, Art With Impact (AWI) had one precise goal-to enable young people in Canada and the United States to talk about mental health... -
In Data We Trust: Be Mobile Africa and Furthering Financial Inclusion Across the African Continent
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details To Cédric Jeannot, leveraging technology to promote financial inclusion was personal. After no established financial institution would accept his technology... -
Shrimp on Smartphones? eFishery: Agile Innovation in Indonesian Aquaculture (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Part A. In November 2016, Gibran Huzaifah, CEO of Indonesian firm eFishery that sells automated fish feeders for fish farmers, ponders a strategic pivot...
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Qualtrics: Bootstrapping Growth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In March 2012 the founders of Qualtrics sat together in the Provo, Utah, office of advisor Duff Thompson. They stared down one of the toughest decisions... -
Shri Ram Temple: A Fintech Solution for Large Scale Project
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on the challenges faced by the Shri Ram Janma Bhoomi Teerth Kshetra (SRJBTK) in managing the fund collection drive project for the construction... -
Tender
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Tender case follows the journey of Miles Parker from his early days of joining an equipment financing company as a partner to the company's founder,... -
Root Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 1999, Root Capital had loaned $150 million to nearly 250 small and growing businesses, mainly in Latin America. In 2009, as the organization... -
Get Your Venture Backed with Persuasive Data Viz: An HBR Collection for Building the Perfect Pitch Deck
Communication Book65.00View Details Communicating your idea in a clear, compelling, and persuasive manner is critical when trying to launch a new venture. This Harvard Business Review collection... -
Crowdfunding: A Tale of Two Campaigns
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Crowdfunding is considered an alternative to traditional angel and venture capital funding that has helped get many business ventures off the ground.... -
Flying the Coop: TeleSign's Incubator Exit
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ryan Disraeli, Darren Berkovitz, and Stacy Stubblefield co-founded TeleSign, an internet security company, while employees in an incubator called Curious... -
Retail Services & Technologies
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the tumultuous experience Eduardo Ruiz had as CEO of Retail Services & Technologies. Ruiz had acquired Arizona-based RST at the end... -
Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Dana Hall is a private all-girls school in New England facing a crisis in its mission. As social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's... -
Gobi Partners: Raising Fund II
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The three founding partners of Gobi Partners, a venture capital fund investing in early start IT and digital media companies in China, are planning to...