Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow. A New Vision for Retirement: Productive and Meaningful. From this, the Social Enterprise Initiative was born. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group. Want to Change the World? Be Resilient.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But that is the territory of entrepreneurship — even with deep financial backing from the rare venture capitalist or angel investor (yes, these are the exceptions in entrepreneurship, not the rule), long term viability of any venture is far from guaranteed and can leave the corporate partner in the lurch. (No

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

As venture capitalist and entrepreneur Rich Stromback told me in a series of interviews, “Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. When I had my white badge access [an official pass to the conference center] — which I don’t bother with anymore — my friends would laugh because I never went to a session.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. Consider why incumbents rarely lead the way in new products and services. Attend a conference you have never before attended. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

Another partner was rewarded by being invited to keynote at a conference for a major retailer's top executives. Wisely, David advises retaining the trust you've developed by recommending your product only when it's a great fit for their situation. One managing partner credited the outreach with producing a 750k deal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Consider why incumbents rarely lead the way in new products and services. Attend a conference you have never before attended. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Here's my list of the top 10 ways to expand your network's collaborative potential: Spend time at a start-up within your business sector.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then, after hearing too many young women’s stories of venture capitalists who asked for sex in return for funding, I stepped back from participating in the startup ecosystem, the driving economy of Silicon Valley. (And, moreover, having sex with in the office – I saw that firsthand, too, though I wish I could unsee it).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Worse still, not one of the company’s assorted products could begin to compete with Ford’s Model T on price or quality. Yet in little more than a decade, each GM product line was turning a profit, and the corporation as a whole had established itself as the world’s premier automaker and the nation’s largest single employer.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Conference in February, 2012 was a half day event in which questions such as “What If There Were Carfree Cities?,” ” were asked, discussed in small groups, digested over a large meal together, and then given life well beyond the close of the Conference. Our second conference this past March was a two day event.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Greater productivity meant lower prices and faster growth, leading to increased industry dominance. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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