Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Few law students even get the chance to buy the losing lottery ticket: the government estimates that 215,417 jobs for attorneys will open between 2008 and 2018 and in the same decade , there will be over 430,000 new legal graduates so only half will get to practice in their chosen field (at substantial opportunity and tuition costs).

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Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. based accelerators really took off after 2008, as it did for startups, early-stage capital, and venture investment more broadly.

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Venture Capitalist Incubator Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

But when I hit the road in 2008 raising capital for our fairly design-centric venture, The Grommet, I noticed that no investor ever remarked on my industrial design credentials. The school’s appreciation for design’s strategic importance has come a long, long way since those days.

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Kleiner Venture Capitalist Industry Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia, for example, commanded market shares of 40% in China and 56% in India by 2008. Last year, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in China, we spoke with one of the country's most celebrated scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists.

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Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

In a similar vein, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ben Horowitz described the succession from Eric Schmidt to Larry Page at the head of Google as a necessary return to command and control as the company shifts from a "peacetime" unbridled growth environment to a "wartime" situation in which they are challenged from all sides.

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Venture Capitalist Politics CEO Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In a memorable, hour-long PBS interview with Charlie Rose during the 2008 crisis, Buffet gave a master class in how the world got into its economic mess and what we can learn from it. But it has also become clear that the rapid growth of microcredit. has made the loans much less effective.".

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Since 2008, we have studied the equity splits adopted by over 3,700 founders from over 1,300 startups in the U.S. Even after statistically controlling for a lot of factors, our data still suggest the same basic message: companies that have equal splits have more difficulty raising outside finance, especially venture capital.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term Long-term Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty.

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Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Last week, The New Republic published a lengthy exploration of ageism in Silicon Valley , the idea that venture capitalists discriminate against older entrepreneurs and that start-ups discriminate against older job applicants. Our data suggests that founders on the billion dollar list are younger than tech entrepreneurs in general.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

I took an HBS student group to India in 2008 and met with CEOs of public companies, heads of family business groups, and visited Keggfarms , an innovative chicken breeder trying to make a dent in poverty. Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section.

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Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

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.

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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. .” Of the remaining small businesses, about 200,000 qualify as high growth startups and firms.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

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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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. As one successful venture capitalist told me, “we try to make new mistakes each day.” If you’ve ever caught a deer in your headlights, you’ve seen that the first reaction to uncertainty is to freeze. It’s not an instinct limited to the wild.

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Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

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. In 2008 the head of the company's international arm asked Monson to devise a business model that would increase its presence in India.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

But for an important subset of the business world — firms in pursuit of explosive growth — raising capital from angel investors or venture capitalists is an early step on a long and uncertain road to success. There is a reason venture-backed firms account for 11% of all US employment.

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IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. He did have a horrific 2008. Wait a while. If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. Sell stock in the company. There are those who find Icahn’s approach simply child ish.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. “You are crazy.” Serious government skin in the game.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

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. Sales doubled in 2013.

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