Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The ongoing poor performance of venture capital firms should be an obvious problem for institutional investors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Eight years ago, it was important for me to get to know marketing and sales leaders in other companies as we were rebuilding these functions. Attend a conference you have never before attended. Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then, after hearing too many young women’s stories of venture capitalists who asked for sex in return for funding, I stepped back from participating in the startup ecosystem, the driving economy of Silicon Valley. I left that industry, too, becoming an independent consultant and advisor.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

I'm all for taking the time to meet interesting new people (that's why I make a point to go to conferences like Renaissance Weekend. And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. In my study of thirty-nine midcareer man­agers and professionals considering major career changes, I ob­served directly how much their old networks can “bind and blind” them. Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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