HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2020

HR tech firms are flourishing as venture capitalists’ love affair with standard-setters in HR SaaS offering continue to grow. According to HRWins by LaRocque LLC, venture capitalists invested $1.741 billion in HR tech companies during the first quarter of 2019 and $1.448 billion in the second quarter.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Recently, I interviewed my friend Dan Levitan, venture capitalist and managing partner of Maveron. Marshall: One of the really important things I’ve learned from you, Dan, that is critical in venture capital, is the concept of “exit strategy”. Of course, you want to live your life without regrets. Dan: Exactly!

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CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You establish your goal (where you want to go) and your position (where you are now), and then develop your strategy (how to get from your position to your goal in the most efficient and effective way). GPSing can be used by individuals, of course, or by organizations as a whole. Our value systems and individual beliefs are learned.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. There is, of course, no one way to do a good pitch remotely during these trying times. He is also a venture partner at several VC firms. Conclusion.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

agile development, DevOps) and modern technology practices (e.g., Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation. cloud, microservices, APIs, and the like).

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Practical solutions.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Reply Leanne Hoagland-Smith October 8, 2010 at 9:42 am Agree your reading should be one of your professional development or mental development goals depending upon your own goal driven action plan. A balanced nutritional diet, a balanced reading diet, and of course that balance between our personal and professional lives.

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. Our results reveal striking differences between venture capitalists’ gender-stereotypical beliefs and actual performance of these ventures.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Social enterprises, of course, are organizations designed primarily to yield social versus financial value. But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s insight was that the key to overcoming these challenges and to improving corporate co-innovation is not for companies to compete more effectively with private venture capitalists or accelerators, but to focus on what they can offer to top startups that others cannot.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

After almost three decades of working with large corporations and entrepreneurs, I've developed a theory. Now, this theory hasn't been vetted with controlled experiments and testing. It is based solely on experiential and intuitive data drawn from my life experiences. It is what defines who they are and why they're here.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Leaders must develop an eye and ear for this weakness – and must try to listen for it in every conversation and look for it in every ops review. Massive amounts of energy are poured into sophisticated justifications and rationalizations for certain courses of action, and there is veiled blame for everything outside the team’s control.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

And of course, products can now be connected with other products, leading to new analytics and new services for more effective forecasting, process optimization, and customer service experiences. Thanks to over-the-air updates, new features and functionality can be pushed to the customer on a regular basis.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 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. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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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. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Not surprisingly, scores of new ventures spring up every year: According to India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 4,853 new periodicals (including newspapers) were registered in 2011 in addition to the existing 80,000-plus. Distribution barriers are not unique to India, of course. Even in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow. Across the programs studied, Yale School of Management topped the chart with 95% of its course offerings in 2009 incorporating social benefit content. From this, the Social Enterprise Initiative was born.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

He wouldn't approve any further development. In a room filled with marketers and developers, the product manager exploded: "What could I say or show you that would get you to change your mind?". The pitch can be before venture capitalists, brand managers, product review committees and/or the CEO. There was no good answer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

You move out of your comfort zone, away from the known, and at every step you have to stop, reevaluate, and recalibrate your course. Vision” implies you have a view of exactly where you want to go and you chart a course accordingly, like plotting a journey on a map, a straightforward road with no distractions, roadblocks or alternate routes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand. It is working with an ecosystem of partners who are developing applications leveraging the dynamic learning and cloud computing capabilities of Watson.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. There is lots of work to be done, of course. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Imagine a business model where you take two years of courses online with the world''s best teachers, followed by two years in structured problem-solving environments. There are three strong players with millions of students and thousands of course offerings, all for free and available to anyone in the world. What''s next?

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Teach a course at a university or local college. But too many executives have networks that, while they may be large, don't have enough diversity to be effective. Learn from your students.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

And, of course, it looks cool — both inside the organization and to outsiders. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

But first, some other developments that caught my eye: • Group messaging services. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. In the course of 4 hours, Austin was flooded with colorful covered black and white iPad2s. I'll get to them in a moment. SXJapan panel.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The idea seems simple enough: you start with an initial venture concept, put together a team, and launch the venture. You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

The good news is that transactions often happen as a matter of course when sales teams focus on building great relationships with generosity. That's what's going to arrest people's attention and make them willing to develop a closer relationship with you. Generosity Without Expectations of Tit for Tat. What kind of homework?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

In February, venture capitalist database CB Insights conducted an extensive review examining what contributes to the failure of new businesses. The findings raise the question: How can entrepreneurs or new product developers test their ideas before investing the significant time and capital required to actually bring them to life?

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Entrepreneur Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in less than a year.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Worse, it sets a precedent for this type of authentic behavior that over time can trap a leader into an expectation or pattern of always behaving that way – and over the course of years this is a soul-destroying situation. Of course not.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

This was my third such conversation in six months, including one with a pioneer of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), the first wave of a digital tsunami headed towards the shores of higher education. All educational institutions have a dual social function: to develop individuals and to develop culture. Efficiency.

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