Harvard Innovation Labs: Startups & Entrepreneurship

Jeff Bussgang presented a Skillshare class entitled "Mastering the VC Game: How to Raise Your First Round of Capital" at the Harvard innovation lab on April 3, 2012. Jeff is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at HBS and a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners.

Uploaded 26-04-12

Students learned about the startup financing landscape, how to find investors, how to pitch them, how to understand term sheets, and other tips for raising a first round of financing.

The seminar was intended to address questions like:

You've been working on a big idea and need financing to get it going: but how do you go about raising your first round of funding? What's the difference between angel, seed, and VC investors? How do you go about valuing your company and deciding on equity?



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The Harvard i-lab sponsored a faculty-led Winter Break trip to New York City for 37 students from across Harvard University. The trip focused on cultural entrepreneurship in NYC: new ventures in fashion, food, fine arts, performing arts, music, video entertainment, literary fiction, etc. Harvard students explored how new ventures in the creative arts are launched, and how proximity to NYC's rich ecosystem of established companies, investors, and supporting organizations (e.g., universities, foundations, trade press, industry associations) influences the ventures' evolution.

Uploaded 20-02-13

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Why do nonprofits, social enterprises and values-driven companies need a measurement and evaluation system? How do you go about measuring the impact your venture has? Chris Addy, a partner at the Bridgespan Group, will help you understand the critical aspects of measurement and evaluation for mission-aligned ventures. The workshop will discuss the reasons for measuring and how it relates to improving your outcomes over time, securing new funds/customers, and being compliant with existing funders/customers. Chris will also help you understand each stage of the performance measurement life-cycle and provide a framework for how to apply these learnings to your own venture:o Defining your outcomes and measurement strategyo Measuring your progresso Learning from what you measureo Acting on those lessons to get better results for society

Uploaded 20-11-14

Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab



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At Demo Day, ten finalist teams showcased their projects to the Harvard and local community demonstrating how their ideas addressed some of the world's most pressing problems. President Faust announced the winners on May 22, where winners took home their share in the $100,000 prize.

Uploaded 12-06-13

To learn more about the challenge, and the winners, see the Harvard Gazette article: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/presidents-challenge-winners-2013/
To learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab



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In an effort to promote translational research and commercialization of cutting edge scientific discoveries within Harvard and the broader life sciences community in the Boston area, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) are collaborating to put forward a series of workshops during the 2012-2013 academic year. The workshops focus on key issues current and future entrepreneurs face and aim to provide broad perspectives as well as practical guidance. The HSCI/i-lab Series will also offer attendees an opportunity to learn about the translational and business building resources at HSCI and at the i-lab, as well as an opportunity to network with peers and industry veterans.

Uploaded 30-12-12

As the venture funding landscape shifts in the life sciences industry, entrepreneurs discover the increasing needs to look at alternative funding sources to start and sustain their ventures. In this workshop, panelists will discuss and answer questions on various government translational and small business programs, academic and medical center funds, angel funding, venture philanthropy, philanthropic donations, disease foundations, venture debt, and alliances with established companies.

Panelists

Roger Kitterman, Managing Partner, Partners Innovation
Bill Sahlman, Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of External Relations, Harvard Business School
Michael Weingarten, Director, NCI SBIR and STTR Programs

Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab



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Building the right team is one of the hardest and most important parts of starting a venture. Rym Baouendi, director of alumni engagement, and Peter Gladstone, senior advisor for B2C startups, share practical advice on what founders should keep in mind when it comes to co-founders, teammates, and equity.

Uploaded 09-09-25

Read more here: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/how-to/how-to-build-a-strong-startup-team

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Technology Track: Mobile Sharing and Proximity with Brett Martin, CEO and Co-founder of Sonar.

Uploaded 20-02-13

Social sharing has exploded in recent years and is now rapidly shifting to mobile devices and, in many instances, becoming increasingly implicit. Location is tagged to much of what we share and more and more we've connected networks and set up mechanisms to make sharing frictionless and implicit. How will all of this new data that's being generated create value and personalized experiences for users, who have come to expect certain benefits from sharing. Temporal proximity networks are popping up to connect people and things as they share physical spaces, and dissipating as quickly as they appear. Brett talks about some of the interactions and opportunities presented by proximity, and the two subsets of the social graph that Sonar is focusing on enabling: the proximity graph and the reality graph.

Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab



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Please check out the 10-minute final pitch by SurgiBox, the 2016 President's Challenge Grand Prize Winner.

Uploaded 10-05-16

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Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab

Uploaded 03-03-17

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The Rock Center and Harvard i-lab present: Eric Ries speaking about his new book, "The Lean Startup." Rock Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Eric Riesis the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned.

Uploaded 13-03-12

After Ries' talk, Tom Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, and Ries had a conversation about the Lean Startup methodology.

Following the talk with Eric Ries, the i-lab sponsored a reception - the inaugural event - at the Harvard i-lab. The speaking events was co-sponsored by the Rock Center and the Harvard innovation lab.



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