Harvard Business Review
MARCH 11, 2014
It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2017
metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. Even smaller cities like Portland, Nashville, and Austin are attempting to curb their own deep-seated divides.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 10, 2013
Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements. Policymakers seem more and more to be looking to play venture capitalist or banker. Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.
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.” “Name a Singapore start-up.
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