Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The report, provocatively titled "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us" [ PDF ], summarizes its findings thus: Limited Partners — foundations, endowments, and state pension funds — invest too much capital in underperforming venture capital funds on frequently misaligned terms. Maybe that's just the way it is.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The report, provocatively titled "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us" [ PDF ], summarizes its findings thus: Limited Partners — foundations, endowments, and state pension funds — invest too much capital in underperforming venture capital funds on frequently misaligned terms. Maybe that's just the way it is.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Research by Harvard Business School senior lecturer Shikhar Ghosh, in fact, has found that fully 75% of venture capital-backed startups — presumably the crème de la crème of the startup world — failed to return the capital invested in them to their investors (let alone generate positive returns).

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.

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