Harvard Business Review
MAY 17, 2017
When venture capitalists (VCs) evaluate investment proposals, the language they use to describe the entrepreneurs who write them plays an important but often hidden role in shaping who is awarded funding and why. All told, we observed closed-room, face-to-face discussions leading final funding decisions for 125 venture applications.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 30, 2012
First, entrepreneurship is not riskier than working at a big bank or law firm, a fact vividly underscored by the de facto nationalization of the banking sector and mass layoffs of the last few years. But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 31, 2014
Now the best description might be, “giant bank account with a company attached.” It’s hard not to see this as a big step backwards, and to wonder whether the standard venture-capital-to-public-company trajectory is turning out to be entirely wrong for an enterprise like Twitter. Let me explain, starting with the plumbing.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2012
Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. The government is rolling out what it calls its National Broadband Plan , a $4.5
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 30, 2015
A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. America loves small businesses. corporations and for companies considering moving production back to the U.S.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2014
Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. ” • “Reserve Bank permission? Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
by 2020, according to the World Bank. China is well on its way to doubling the number of patent applications filed with the State Intellectual Property Office, from 1 million in 2010 to 2 million by 2015. The “input” indeed appears impressive: China’s R&D expenditure increased to 1.6% of GDP in 2012 from 1.1%
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