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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. The alternative and potentially more troubling story is that the venture capital approach is fundamentally flawed.

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. The alternative and potentially more troubling story is that the venture capital approach is fundamentally flawed.

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Precision Medicine Could Have a Major Impact on Healthcare Outcomes and Costs - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business Review

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. How do you survive such a seemingly unending series of waves?

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The Get-Big-Quick Fallacy

Harvard Business Review

Sufficient profits make a business self-sustaining, inoculating ventures against the need to pry money from tight-fisted venture capitalists or often-skeptical corporate investors. We know that the answers we''ll get are nothing more than hypotheses, which will change as the venture gains experience in the market.

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Investing in Start-Ups: For Love and Money

Harvard Business Review

It may not be that the idea is bad, but rather your idea doesn't do what early stage investors, or venture capitalists (VC) want done. According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. Related Video.