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Anthony Soohoo: Retrospection on Dot & Bo
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Ciechanover, Allison M.; Gonzalez, GeorgeCase HBS-820037-EEntrepreneurshipA founder looks back at the issues at play in the final year of failed furniture e-commerce startup, Dot & Bo. He shares his perspective and learnings in the aftermath.Starting at €8.20
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Pebble: Wearables Pioneer
Yoffie, David B.; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-717414-EStrategyIn the summer of 2016, wearables 'wunderkind' and Pebble founder and CEO, Eric Migicovsky, was pleased with the young startup's success in the five years since its founding. The Silicon Valley-based company had recently shipped its two millionth smartwatch; held the record for three of the four highest Kickstarter campaigns ever (raising cumulatively over $40 million on the site); launched its first non-watch product dubbed a "wearables game chan...Starting at €8.20
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HTC and Virtual Reality
Yoffie, David B.; Wu, Andy; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-718421-EStrategyIn fall 2017, HTC CEO and Chairperson Cher Wang was driving the company to focus on virtual reality (VR). HTC's first VR product, VIVE, released in spring 2016, was applauded for its superior immersive room-scale capabilities. However, early adoption of VR beyond gamers and technology enthusiasts was off to a slower start in general to due high cost, lack of quality content, and some user discomfort while using the technology. Wang endeavors to b...Starting at €8.20
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Code.org
Kim, John Jong-Hyun; Barley, Lauren; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-317008-EThe case explores Hadi Partovi's mission to provide every K-12 student in the United States the opportunity to learn computer science. Students can assess how Partovi transformed his passion into an organization that reached millions around the globe through the launch of not-for-profit, Code.org, and its well-known awareness building event entitled "The Hour of Code." The case provides students the opportunity to consider the organization's mult...Starting at €8.20
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Poppy (B)
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Huizinga, Jeff; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-820715-EEntrepreneurshipAvni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Poppy, an online marketplace for on-demand childcare, revisits the venture's final months, and discusses the steps she took in the wake of the shutdown. This case explores experiments the company conducted to refineStarting at €5.74
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Dinesh Moorjani and Hatch Labs
Ghosh, Shikhar; Stanton, Christopher; Ciechanover, Allison M.; Huizinga, JeffCase HBS-818026-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is about Tinder. It discusses different business models and ways of structuring the initial team. With a $6 million investment from IAC/Interactive in 2010, Dinesh Moorjani founded Hatch Labs to build mobile apps. His mission was to attract entrepreneurial talent to work on Lab projects which, after gaining traction, could be acquired by IAC or spun out as independent companies. To pitch talent to work at Hatch, Moorjani laid out a fram...Starting at €8.20
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BreezoMeter: Making Air Pollution Data Actionable
Cespedes, Frank V.; Ciechanover, Allison M.; Eiran, MargotCase HBS-819058-EEntrepreneurshipIsrael-based startup providing actionable air pollution data wrestles with which markets and customers to focus on.Starting at €8.20
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Anthony Soohoo at Dot & Bo: Bringing Storytelling to Furniture E-Commerce
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Ciechanover, Allison M.; Gonzalez, GeorgeCase HBS-820036-EEntrepreneurshipAn examination of the first few years of San Franciso-based, fast-growing furniture and home accessory e-commerce startup, Dot & Bo.Starting at €8.20
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San Francisco, 2015 #tech #inequality
Rose, Clayton; Ciechanover, Allison M.; Modi, KunalCase HBS-315076-EIn December 2013 a group of angry protesters blocked one of the commuter bus provided by the large Silicon Valley firms (known as "Google buses") which was stopped in San Francisco on its way to the company's headquarters 40 miles south. The protests were a tangible manifestation of the sharp increase in tensions between citizens upset with changes they saw in San Francisco and the "techies" and technology companies they held responsible for the ...Starting at €8.20
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SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service
Nanda, Ramana; Nagaraj, Abhishek; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-821082-EEntrepreneurshipSet in January 2021, the CEO of SafeGraph, a four-year-old startup that sold Data as a Service, looked to the future. His aim was to become the most trusted source for data about a physical place. The company provided points of interest (POI) and foot traffic data on nearly 7 million businesses in the U.S. and Canada from a variety of providers, then labelled attributes of the data such as the brand affiliation and how long consumers remained at ...Starting at €8.20