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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. “Individuals and small companies wanted analytics, they wanted to know what was happening in social media [for their content], they wanted ad removal and lead gen. What prompted the process change? Except it didn’t take off. [I