Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Investors have perpetuated a compensation structure where VCs can generate significant personal income over their career, even when they make no money for their LPs. Last year I spoke at a conference to an audience of VCs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

Conferences are an overwhelming rush of presentations, conversations, and potential meet-ups, and it can be tough to know where to focus your time. Professional conferences are an unavoidable fact of working life. “Skipping conferences is problematic because you’re missing out on the benefits of networking,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When you are young, or when your why is non-existent or has gone missing, which happens to most of us at some juncture in our business or career, it may be that you just need to move forward. However, the investment of time needed to keep pursuing this dream might just thwart my conference-organizing goal.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

At INSEAD, two students Philippe Dongier and Katie (co-author of this post) sent a school-wide email asking if anyone was interested in cultivating coursework and careers related to nonprofits. Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Attend a conference you have never before attended. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. But too many executives have networks that, while they may be large, don't have enough diversity to be effective. Meet at least three new people.

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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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