Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

On August 21, 2012 I suddenly lost the ability to walk. Physically, I am essentially the same as I was before August 21, 2012. Consequently, last year I founded TheFounderProject - a new type of venture fund run almost entirely by students that invests in student startups. I was exercising. Well, not really.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

There’s a case to be made for corporate venture capital as a strategy, but research suggests that this is probably the exact wrong moment to be using it. As recently as late 2012, U.S. corporate venture capital amounted to roughly $1.5 First, the numbers. billion invested each quarter.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After all, the legislation, passed in 2012 but stuck in SEC rule making until now, was intended to boost America’s entrepreneurial economy. If the limiting factor for the startup economy is capital, you’d expect newly founded venture funds to generate solid returns. But what effect will the rules have on startups?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9 billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. All recognize the enormous size of the opportunity to make a profit while improving care, lowering costs, and improving health.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500. Antonio Lucio, Chief Brand Officer at Visa , created a customer engagement strategy for the 2012 Olympics.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. When he bought it in 2012 it had $93 million in revenue. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

In 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. “I’m a living and smiling example of life after cancer,” she says.

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