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The Horizons Tracker
MAY 24, 2021
This means that there is a huge amount of uncertainty involved when venture capitalists decide whether to invest in tech start-ups,” the researchers explain. They analyzed around 400,000 English-language tweets about 37 different technologies and over 4,600 venture capital funding rounds from 2008 to 2017.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 30, 2015
A study by economist Zoltan Acs in 2008 found that only about three percent of all businesses can be classified as high growth businesses or “gazelles,” but that they are responsible for 20 percent of gross job creation. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators. .”
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2018
Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 23, 2013
But the reality for entrepreneurs outside of the established startup meccas is a difficult one: if you start a technology business somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay area, New York, or Boston, you’re stacking the deck against yourself. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz kicks off an inspired post on scaling by quoting the rapper Dorrough, who tells anyone with “a dollar in your pocket, a twenty in your wallet” to focus on one thing: “Get big. But once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. The Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it.
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