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Whether in the science parks of Shenzhen in China or the coffee shops of Silicon Valley in the United States, vibrant communities of investors, entrepreneurs, and experts drive progress by fostering Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Xiaoteng Wu , Arzi Adbi and Pasha Mahmood
The venture capital industry has witnessed a surge in investments by micro venture capital (or “micro VC”) firms, which have emerged as a crucial player in the startup ecosystem. These are Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Mario Daniele Amore , Annamaria Conti and Valerio Pelucco
How can entrepreneurs build a case for external investment, and how do investors evaluate the ventures pitched to them? This case offers some answers to these questions. It’s likely to be of Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Jay Ebben and Alec Johnson
Entrepreneurs often benefit from the advice and support of great mentors and investors who want to work with them. One powerful way entrepreneurs can attract great mentors and investors is to improve Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Chaim Letwin , Michael Ciuchta , Regan Stevenson and Sean McMahon
Many large corporations are making corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in tech startups. While the innovation benefits for these corporations have received much attention in the business Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Yannick Bammens and Jakob Lilienweiss
This spring, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship experimented with a new “Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis” course for undergraduate students. For years we’ve seen a huge student interest in Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Jay Ebben and Jack Dempsey
After the emergence of the Lean Startup, many entrepreneurs choose to test the market for their product and run a lot of experiments before scaling their businesses. At the same time, some take a Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Author: Andrea Contigiani
Back in the depths of the Great Recession, two World Wide Web pioneers set up shop on Menlo Park, Calif.’s venture capital enclave, Sand Hill Road. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of early Web Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Robert Buday , Charles Eesley and James C Wetherbe
On April 1, Madison, Wisconsin-based company Fetch Rewards became a unicorn, with a $210 million investment round lead by SoftBank VisionFund 2. EIX Editor in Chief Jon Eckhardt Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Jon Eckhardt
New firms can attract resources by sending out signals about their quality. They do this because a new firm’s quality is often uncertain and hard to observe. But we don’t know much about what Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Tom Vanacker