Kevin Eikenberry
OCTOBER 5, 2010
He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists. Consider what venture capitalists do. “Fund&# several with time, energy, money and encouragement. But of all of the things he shared, one thing struck me in such a way that I am still thinking about over 24 hours later.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. Last year, venture capital investments in clean tech totaled a mere $2.8 billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing.
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Strategy Driven
JUNE 20, 2011
Essentially, this debilitating syndrome sets in when people stop believing they can be successful and start devoting their energy to how best to lose. ’ Goals that are clearly beyond any reasonable confidence of achievement are worse than easy goals – they actually disengage your team’s energy. About the Author.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. For deeper technologies, you can’t always innovate at a venture capital cadence, where you have to get big super fast.” ” An Alternative Path.
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. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. This expansion isn't just domestic.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 16, 2016
The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. In battery research, for example, scientists have long focused on finding materials with greater energy density.
Strategy Driven
MAY 25, 2011
When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. About the Author.
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