Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

These major transformations pose significant implications for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, workers, and managers, as well as policymakers for nations and cities across the globe. The first shift is the Great Expansion, as the past decade has witnessed a massive increase in venture capital deployed globally.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

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).

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

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. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 17

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. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. This needs to change.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

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. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

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. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. Are all of these great teachers? So what is happening now?

Education 11

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There are three pieces of data that are particularly shocking to internet, software, and biotech entrepreneurs who are on the verge of committing their firms to starting firms in secondary startup markets (and, in particular, outside of the San Francisco Bay). Raising venture capital isn’t the be all and end all of entrepreneurial success.

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IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. Conclusion? This innovation has impact.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. 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. In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. Wait a while.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. By using these strategies, clean energy startups can better position themselves for acquisitions and promising exits.

Energy 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. 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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 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. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

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. At first blush, even the output looks impressive. Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers. trillion.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 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. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8