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Looking The Part More Important For Securing VC Backing

The Horizons Tracker

. “Our findings have important practical implications and highlight the need for better theories of the role of the founding team in entrepreneurship and venture financing.” “As a result, Zoom had to raise funds from friends and family before being able to bring VCs on board.” ” What it takes. .”

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. We transformed those feelings into a simple sentence: “We pioneer the future of financing, improving the success of every business we serve and the quality of each life we touch.”

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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

There’s an interesting fact about companies with these kinds of moats or competitive advantages that often gets overlooked: the turnover rate of CEOs among the S&P as a whole is between ten and twenty times higher than in the big entrepreneurial successes of the past few decades.

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Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds

Harvard Business Review

I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria. Success brought partnerships with U.S. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D. It's something that U.S.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. It was one of the world’s highest-grossing IPOs in a year when the market was otherwise in chaos due to the mortgage lending crisis.

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Why Weight Watchers Can't Ignore the Call to Go "Free"

Harvard Business Review

Had the owners of those assets reacted immediately with a free or deeply discounted version of their encyclopedia (in digital form) to the segments adopting the digital versions, they may have been able to buy time for a successful transition to a new business model. Of course not. The story is the same with Weight Watchers.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed.