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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
The Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis course works well for students pursuing careers in real estate, business development, consulting, banking, and other fields. This spring, the Schulze School of 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 interviewed the 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
Venture capital affiliations can shape how outsiders view a startup. Employees and investors, however, interpret VC reputation in different ways. New firms must attract two kinds of resources: talent Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Daniel Forbes
Research found that founders who followed mentors’ advice were no more likely to succeed than those who resisted it. Experience may matter more than coachability. Many venture capital firms, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Kevin Bryan and András Tilcsik
Ann Winblad faced repeated rejection before building Hummer Winblad. Her story offers lessons for entrepreneurs competing for scarce startup capital. For venture capitalist Ann Winblad, being one of Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Ann Winblad