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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
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AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve
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Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment
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How to Attract the Right Shareholders
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How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
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What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
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Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
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Giving After Disasters
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Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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Doximity: Financing a Social Network for Physicians
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Privateer Holdings: Navigating a Rocketing, But Complex, Cannabis Marketplace
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BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets
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Qualtrics: Bootstrapping Growth
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Eventbrite: Market Sizing, Competitive Analysis, and Fundraising
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Golden Gate Ventures: Growth Decisions
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Dans la rue: Balancing the Heart and the Pocketbook
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The Albeiro Vargas & the Guardian Angels Foundation (A)
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Shrimp on Smartphones? eFishery: Agile Innovation in Indonesian Aquaculture (B)
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MedMetric, LLC: Seed-Round Convertible Note Financing
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Doximity: Financing a Social Network for Physicians
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MiracleFeet (B): Data for Impact
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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.... -
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Qualtrics: Bootstrapping Growth
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