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Leading Blog
MAY 1, 2024
Ty Wiggins, an experienced leadership advisor specializing in CEO transitions, explains how to land well as a new CEO, accelerate your impact, and unlock the most affirming experience of your career. Venture capitalists are known for their extraordinary ability to spot opportunities.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2014
2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2016
You may have a few outliers in the mix, but unless you’ve been deliberate about your networking, the vast majority of people you know probably work in the same field or industry as you. 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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2012
billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. 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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 19, 2015
AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., IBM is leading the integration of AI in industry. He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Many innovation groups want to have it both ways, acting as a partner to the business units to help them tackle near-term opportunities, while also developing further-out, “disruptive” ideas that could shake up their industry. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 31, 2017
Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.
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