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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The Forces of global change can render professional skill sets obsolete almost overnight. Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. But how is this done? Consider leaving a comment!

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

. “The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start Up

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, GoViral was sold for $97 million, having never taken a single krone or dollar of investment capital. Investors don’t like risk any better than you do. If you’re raising money before traction is in hand, so-called “market risk” is higher than if demand has already been proven.