Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Specialized trade shows and conferences such as the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference that draw fringe players and startups can provide unusual perspectives on future technologies and are refreshingly devoid of consultants and other CIOs. Better still, they should do this while overseas.

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CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. Design Conferences. No 20,000 tech jobs. Design is everywhere.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. Design Conferences. No 20,000 tech jobs. Design is everywhere.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

You can feel the tension in the compressed smiles, quick nods and pointed questions at the annual Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare conference. And venture capitalist John Doerr, who has invested in green technology, likes to say, "We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment."

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Reis Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. I’ve been grappling with this personally, as I have pursued two important goals for 2014: to run a marathon and to organize a conference on pursuing dreams.

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Venture Capitalist Conference CRM Career 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. Many at the conference articulated the idea simply. As they say in Manhattan, the Mumbai crowd averred, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.".

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

But I experienced a different perspective in Abuja, Nigeria, two months ago when I visited to keynote a tech conference. A venture capitalist there was essentially running an imitation fund. And I have also supported the notion that innovation is central to economic prosperity.

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Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow. Over the next few years, he provided small amounts of money to seed experiments and to challenge the institution to come up with innovative approaches to address his question.

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Venture Capitalist Bottom-up Committee Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. The conversation took place at an inaugural conference called Platform , created by Hank Williams after a provocative series that Soledad O’Brien did on CNN on black entrepreneurship. That VC might not even take the meeting. But bear with me.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Entrepreneur Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more. How to Get the Most Out of a Conference. Given the vagaries of industry disruption, he became concerned. You and Your Team Series.

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Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

There was no similar breakthrough success at this year's conference. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. Startups and, increasingly, innovative mainstream companies converge on SXSW to test and launch new concepts. Twitter had its coming-out party in Austin in 2007.

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Class Venture Capitalist Trends Bottom-up 14

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. At a recent industry conference, Bill Reichert , managing director of Garage Technology Ventures opined, "VCs do not invest with their brains.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

According to Rafael Reif, MIT''s president, who spoke at the Davos conference this past January, there are three major buckets that make up the total annual expense (about $50,000) of attending a top-notch university such as MIT: student life, classroom instruction, and projects and lab activities.

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It's hard to argue with the assessment of Thomas Perkins , the legendary venture capitalist and a former HP director (who has hardly covered himself in glory during this mess), who told the New York Times back in August: "I didn't know there was such a thing as corporate suicide, but now we know that there is.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

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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Venture Capitalist Efficiency Bond Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

I'm all for taking the time to meet interesting new people (that's why I make a point to go to conferences like Renaissance Weekend. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. How does he find good prospects to invest in? He has never funded an investment that came in cold.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

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.

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Entrepreneur Supply Chain Venture Capitalist Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Sandberg could have also mentioned that women represent less than 20% of speaker and panel spots that help confer recognition as experts in their field, or that women receive less than 3% of venture capital funding. For example, pledge to phase out all-male panels at conferences. Find a way to act.

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Venture Capitalist COO Conference Film 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Attend a conference you have never before attended. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Consider why incumbents rarely lead the way in new products and services. Meet at least three new people. Follow up with them afterward. Start a LinkedIn or Facebook group. Be the connector for this group of people.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

But until the panel discussion disappears from the agendas of conferences and networking events, you may be asked to moderate one. I''ve moderated more than 300 panel discussions at events like the Consumer Electronics Show, the Sundance Film Festival, and various Harvard Business School conferences. Don''t prep with your panelists.

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Audience Venture Capitalist How To Conference 9

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. A senior VP of a global 500 food manufacturer returned the personal message and followed within a week with a request for proposal on Value Chain Transformation. One managing partner credited the outreach with producing a 750k deal.

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Venture Capitalist How To CIO Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Sandberg could have also mentioned that women represent less than 20% of speaker and panel spots that help confer recognition as experts in their field, or that women receive less than 3% of venture capital funding. For example, pledge to phase out all-male panels at conferences. Find a way to act.

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Venture Capitalist COO Conference Film 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

And of course, premiere venture capitalists talk with pride about "pattern recognizing" for success, signaling that they typically fund a 23-year old from Stanford over say, women, people of color, or those with a more diverse life experience. Who would argue that such affiliations no longer confer some degree of power?

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Power Venture Capitalist Business Model McKinsey 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Attend a conference you have never before attended. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Consider why incumbents rarely lead the way in new products and services. Meet at least three new people. Follow up with them afterward. Start a LinkedIn or Facebook group. Be the connector for this group of people.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 13

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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Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section.

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Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

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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Venture Capitalist Conference Education Class 132

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Ford had disdained organization and vowed to have “no line of succession or of authority, very few titles, and no conferences.” Just four years after Sloan published his memoirs, a handful of scientists and venture capitalists in Mountain View, Calif., “Strategy” led “structure,” as historian Alfred D.

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Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Venture capitalist Chris Dixon has called this approach the “full-stack startup.” Earlier this year, Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani asked this question to a group of conference attendees.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Last fall, I paid a visit to the Creative Class island within depressed Detroit for the Techonomy Detroit conference at Wayne State University, and I can attest that people there are well aware that urban rebirth will take a lot more than a few downtown restaurant openings. and venture capitalist.

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Gilbert Venture Capitalist Class Entrepreneur 8