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The Social Sector Needs to Take More Risk and Accept Failure

Harvard Business Review

So, if impact investing is still within this early stage of experimentation and iteration, what lessons learned from the formation of the venture capital industry might we apply? Venture capitalists finance structured experiments — with relatively modest amounts of money and time — intended to produce valuable outcomes.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

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. If you don’t have a powerful answer as to why you are disrupting, you can easily get distracted and lose your way.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

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. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck'

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