Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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A Note on Getting the Most Out of Your Board Meetings
Dodson, D; Pohlmeyer, SCase SGSB-E631-EEntrepreneurshipIn your first year as chief executive officer (CEO), you will encounter a host of management challenges and opportunities—all of which can be navigated more skillfully if you can tap into the insights and perspectives of a handful of seasoned operators and investors. For this reason, your board can have a significant impact on the company’s performance. Unfortunately, CEOs often get far less value out of their boards in the first few years than...Starting at €8.20
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Sirum: Scaling a “Tech-for-Good” Medication Donation Platform
Siegelman, Russell; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E815-EEntrepreneurshipKiah Williams started SIRUM as a Stanford undergraduate alongside her classmates Adam Kircher and George Wang. Nearly two decades later, the medication donation nonprofit was now operating in five states across the country and had helped facilitate medication donations to reach 150,000 uninsured and underinsured patients. SIRUM’s technology enabled donors with excess medication supply to donate unexpired, sealed, non-opioid medications to those...Starting at €8.20
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Atticus Law
Siegelman, Russell; Freiman, AandrewCase SGSB-E818-EEntrepreneurshipThis case follows Sam Byker, the Founder and CEO of Atticus, as he creates, scales, and fundraises for the company. Atticus is a platform that serves individuals in need by connecting them with law firms that can help. The case covers the company’s history from its inception through to its Series A financing. The case explores the tension Byker faces between Atticus’ opportunities for growth and maintaining focus on the company’s mission when se...Starting at €8.20
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Byteboard: Reinventing the Technical Interview (A)
Siegelman, Russell; Mirabile, DominicCase SGSB-E768A-EEntrepreneurshipByteboard aims to replace the pre-on-site technical interview for software engineers with a more effective, efficient, and equitable web-based assessment. The case follows the founding team’s journey from problem definition and customer development through the testing of their minimum viable product and validation of their core value hypothesis. By recounting Byteboard’s early quest towards product-market fit, the case poses several key questio...Starting at €8.20
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Opendoor: Launching in Los Angeles
Siegelman, Russell; Scott, Mitchel; Sutherland, MargotCase SGSB-M379-EMarketingThe Opendoor case follows head of market operations Megan Meyer as her team develops a strategy to enter Los Angeles, a substantial departure from the existing real estate markets the company had worked in through 2018. Particular issues explored include market segmentation, new market entry strategy, and quantitative analysis of unit economics and addressable markets.Starting at €8.20
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Branch Metrics: "Failing" into the Idea
Mandelbaum, F; Pohlmeyer, SCase SGSB-E586-EEntrepreneurshipThis case explores the Branch Metrics’ cofounders’ early days as a team and their pursuit of a viable idea for their startup. The three original cofounders, who met in business school, transformed their business concept entirely several times before finding the idea for Branch Metrics. Starting with a fitness collar for dogs, then starting over with developing a mobile application for low-cost, high-quality photobooks, and ultimately developing a...Starting at €8.20
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2016 Search Fund Study: Selected Observations
Kelly, P; Dodson, D; Grousheck, IH; Pohlmeyer, S; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E605-EEntrepreneurshipSince 1996, the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) has conducted a series of studies on the performance of search funds. These studies endeavor to gather data and gain insight into all known search funds. The studies aggregate the characteristics of search funds, present their principals’ backgrounds, and evaluate the investment returns generated by first-time search funds to their origina...Starting at €8.20
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MyVillage: Home-Based Childcare For All
Siegelman, Russell; Hattendorf, Laura, Scott, MitchelCase SGSB-E701-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Esusu: The Missing Link in Credit Reports
Siegelman, Russell; Bekele, GelilaCase SGSB-E770-EEntrepreneurshipAbbey Wemimo and Samir Goel founded Esusu in 2018 to help low-to-moderate-income renters build credit history. Esusu, a for-profit impact focused venture, collected rental payments from property managers and reported this data to major credit bureaus, which helped renters improve their credit scores. In April 2020, only six months after closing their first institutional round of capital, New York state issued a lockdown to prevent the spread of ...Starting at €8.20
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Byteboard: Reinventing the Technical Interview (B)
Siegelman, Russell; Mirabile, DominicCase SGSB-E768B-EEntrepreneurshipByteboard aims to replace the pre-on-site technical interview for software engineers with a more effective, efficient, and equitable web-based assessment. The case follows the founding team’s journey from problem definition and customer development through the testing of their minimum viable product and validation of their core value hypothesis. By recounting Byteboard’s early quest towards product-market fit, the case poses several key questio...Starting at €5.74