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- April 2023
- Teaching Note
MAYA Capital
By: Robert F. White, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 822-038.
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- September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
MAYA Capital
By: Robert F. White, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
MAYA Capital co-founders Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro raised $41.5 million through a series of closings for their early-stage Latin American venture capital fund. The two women had met for the first time in mid-2016 when Lemann was contemplating scaling her angel...
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- May 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Bill Cummings: The Cummings Way
By: Christina R. Wing, Robert F. White and Michael Norris
In 2019, Bill Cummings, founder of Cummings Properties and Cummings Foundation and billionaire signer of the Giving Pledge, is winding down his roles at his company and foundation. How should the management move the company forward?
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- November 2018 (Revised December 2020)
- Technical Note
Initial Coin Offerings in 2018
In 2018, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) were an emerging fundraising method for blockchain-based projects. As the ecosystem grew, there were many open questions on regulation, pricing, and even which projects were a good fit for blockchain. However, there was already...
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- November 2018 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
CleanWater, Inc.: Running Dry & Out of Time
By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White, Shai Bernstein and James Barnett
- August 2018
- Technical Note
Evaluating Start Ups
A framework for assessing new business opportunities and the business plans used to describe them is developed. Useful for aspiring entrepreneurs in MBA programs.
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- June 2018
- Exercise
Venture Capital Term Sheets
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Lovepop
By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Olivia Hull
Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-015.
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- November 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Technical Note
Initial Coin Offerings
By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Alexey Tuzikov
- November 2017 (Revised November 2018)
- Technical Note
Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets
By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Alexey Tuzikov
- October 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
AngelList in 2017
By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Liz Kind
- October 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Lovepop
By: Robert F. White, Ramana Nanda and Olivia Hull
As they prepare to graduate from Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an angel group and the other from...
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- September 2017 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Discover Capital: Closing an Acquisition
- November 2016 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
Hyperloop One
This case explores the attempt of Shervin Pishevar, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, to shepherd hyperloop, a futuristic pod-in-tube transportation technology, from concept to transformative reality via Hyperloop One and Sherpa Capital, both companies he...
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- November 2016 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Square, Inc. IPO
By: Ramana Nanda, Robert White and Lauren G. Pickle
In November 2015, Square, Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO had an offering price of $9 per share, lower than the $11 to $13 estimate that had been outlined in the preliminary prospectus and 42% below the $15.50 share price in its most recent...
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- October 2016 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Bootstrapping at Lightricks
By: Robert White, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Christine Snively
By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team of 30, earned a revenue run rate of nearly $10 million, and achieved modest profitability. The bootstrapped company had...
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- August 2016 (Revised August 2020)
- Exercise