Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

venture-capital investment was for hardware start-ups last year, but that represents a big increase from 1992–2011, when the figure was less than 1% , says the Wall Street Journal. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups. Only 3% of U.S. Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If its ambition was to improve on current products in tiny increments, venture capitalists would ignore them. If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

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. Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. billion, according to Dow Jones.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” A plan helps detail how the opportunity is to be seized, what success looks like, and what resources are required, and it can be key to the investment decisions of angel investors, banks, and venture capitalists. entrepreneurs over a six-year period (2005 to 2011).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. We believe that the venture client approach is unique and has enormous potential, not just at BMW but also at other companies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Not surprisingly, scores of new ventures spring up every year: According to India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 4,853 new periodicals (including newspapers) were registered in 2011 in addition to the existing 80,000-plus. Distribution barriers are not unique to India, of course. Even in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, once said that software is eating the world. But, as the Singaporean government is slowly realizing, correlation does not mean causation, and digitalization does not mean growth. The Singaporean economy’s growth rate went from 6.2%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Founded in 2011, and based on Steve Blank’s lean startup principles , I-Corps was designed to help bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization often known as the valley of death.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Further, the growing number of patent applications fild with China's State Intellectual Property Office suggests that the country will become the world's largest patents-holder by 2011. Most technology ventures in China are of the C2C variety, i.e., Copy-To-China. An analysis of data on patents granted by the U.S.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. And you can control it through continuous and open communication with every member of your team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. “Venture capitalists are looking for rapid exits and researchers are pretty much stuck with the idea that they came to the party with. The Era of Big Science. Often, that information is considered proprietary.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Author. John Hamm is one of the top leadership experts in Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Venture capitalists are creating software engineering academies in their own cities. In recent years, incumbents have fought back.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Author. John Hamm is one of the top leadership experts in Silicon Valley.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Author. John Hamm is one of the top leadership experts in Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

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 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. Wait a while. If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. Sell stock in the company. He reportedly took home compensation of $1.7

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. There is a reason venture-backed firms account for 11% of all US employment. Against this backdrop, venture capital is aggregating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Vance has received huge attention for his book Hillbilly Elegy , chronicling his time as a venture capitalist who grew up in rural Ohio, and the difficulties his background presented. Research shows 61% of college enrollees in 2011-2012 were from households that didn’t have a bachelor’s degree holding parent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank. There have also been changes in the framework agreement around the ownership of Alipay in both 2011 and 2012, as well as a buyback of almost half of the Yahoo stake in May of 2012 for $7 billion. The company subsequently went private in early 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Our conclusion is supported by the fact that in each of the first three five-year intervals in the 21st century, 2001−2005, 2005−2010, and 2011−2015, the largest number of net delists, defined as the number of delisting firms minus the number of listing firms, occurred in software, electronics, and computer industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Venture capitalists tout their latest investments as potential disruptors. Since 2011, Apple has generated $150 billion in cash flow, much of that from the iPhone. This is why it makes sense for venture capitalists to obsess about disruption). None as far as I can tell. Then there’s Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists. If one assumes each angel deal was $300,000 per deal, then about 100,000 deals were done in 2011. I haven’t dug up the 2012 numbers. That is about 500 deals per working day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The pressure on the company by the investing community (among others) was so severe that it eventually split into two, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions in January of 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Venture capitalist Chris Dixon has called this approach the “full-stack startup.” In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. What’s more, Silicon Valley has often scooped up the promising digital startups that Europe has produced — Skype and AI pioneer DeepMind, for example.

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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.” And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

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