Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

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. People are the foundation of this success. What are some of the best practices that help increase the odds of success?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 24, 2014

On a flight from Zurich to New York, I sat next to a very successful investor who had paid too much for a small high-tech firm. My seatmate complained over and over during the course of the flight about how the owner had led him on with promises of breakthrough technologies that never materialized. ” he grunted angrily.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Some are big winners of course, but some fail. Marshall: One thing that I love about what you are do as a venture capitalist is you grapple with the fact that most investments fail. One thing that I love about what Dan does is he is in a business in which most investments fail. Below is an excerpt from our talk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. It depends on the partners in the fund, their prior levels of success, their personal balance sheets, and their stage in life. What is the optimum level of VC commit? Well, it depends.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2016

This may seem like an odd statement coming from a entrepreneur turned venture capitalist and professor who has spent the last few years in my role at Carnegie Mellon studying scaling startups and teaching a popular graduate course titled The Science of Growth that was recently turned in as a book.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

CEOs could enlist individuals who posses these traits for their top management teams and could give them prominent roles in specific strategic domains…Venture capitalists could use these personality measurements in predicting the success of SMEs operating in dynamic industries and thus, in making investment decisions (p.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

A balanced nutritional diet, a balanced reading diet, and of course that balance between our personal and professional lives. Join the Bud to Boss Community to Connect to Resourcing Relationships Our new Bud to Boss Community will provide resources and support to help you become the best leader you can be. It was implied but not stated.

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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

MAY 10, 2011

If its ambition was to improve on current products in tiny increments, venture capitalists would ignore them. If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Necessity truly is the mother of invention.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Venture capitalists exhibit some strange behaviors, but none is more bizarre than the near-inevitable scheming to remove a company's founder-CEO. The process, instituted by a particular stripe of venture capitalist, represents the acme of "adult supervision" by the VC, a destroy-the-village-to-save-it moment of investor heroism.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

about how our business, government and consumers will meet challenges around the environments, infrastructure, and of course, the economy. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Essentially, this debilitating syndrome sets in when people stop believing they can be successful and start devoting their energy to how best to lose. 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 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on. A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they''ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively. And it''s true that if companies aren''t careful, their internal venture capitalists can become entangled in the agendas of various corporate stakeholders or demotivated by inadequate or poorly designed financial incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Of course, no one can accurately predict whether or how long Apple's success will last. The Sun Microsystems co-founder, now a venture capitalist, talks about his obsession with hiring the right people. "A But I do detect the beginnings of a new mythology. THIS VC LOVES A GOOD CV.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they’ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively. That’s why it’s important that venture funds’ goals be aligned with corporate objectives, approvals for funding be streamlined, and compensation levels match those offered by independent venture groups.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. It’s hard to get good data on innovation success rates, but most corporate leaders will report that even close-to-the-core efforts fail to deliver on their promise at least a third of the time.

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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. Most of the big successes followed this pattern. Design thinking.

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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. Most of the big successes followed this pattern. Design thinking.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2021

Unlike venture capitalists, who are more concerned in getting in the ground floor of a possibly massively successful business, angel investors provide money based on other reasons. Of course, not every angle investor is the same and you may have a different arrangement with each one you meet.

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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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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. By then, we had a more experienced team thanks to the success of Tap Fish. There is, of course, no one way to do a good pitch remotely during these trying times. I call it the killer slide.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

For knowledge-intensive industries, people's talent, expertise and ingenuity are essential ingredients for success. Privacy matters, of course, but it's seldom central. Of course, these unhappy pathologies are global phenomena. Agile minds are our richest resource for sharpening our competitive edge. Those risks are growing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

When businesses are successful, they hang around for a while and there is no end of examination as to why they became what they became. In his essay, Graham posts email correspondence with Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist, in which Graham pleaded with Wilson two years ago to invest in Airnb. I wish them every success.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. ” He continued to dig into his argument, believing people were simply misunderstanding him , but he doesn’t acknowledge the facts: immigrants with accents do found successful startups, but often without VC support. But bear with me.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

It may not be fair, and you may not want to hear it, but chances are that previous leaders have poisoned the ground on which you’re trying to grow a successful business. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. The brutal truth is probably not. Carl had a Ph.D. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

And if we go back to the labor discussion, a company could certainly fill its offices with some bodies “for less,” as Furchtgott-Roth suggests, but is that the right metric for success in human resources? Of course, not all the reactions to Gravity’s announcement were negative.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Last week, The New Republic published a lengthy exploration of ageism in Silicon Valley , the idea that venture capitalists discriminate against older entrepreneurs and that start-ups discriminate against older job applicants. Today, of course, these founders are quite a bit older, with an average age just under 39, and a median of 38.

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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

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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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. Here are three strategies worth trying: Look for successful competitors. Of course, the most accurate test of demand will involve customers getting out their credit cards.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

Most managers agree that you need different kinds of leaders in lean and fat times, to preside over growth or retrenchment, to lead organizations out of crisis, or to steer a steady course in an ocean of calm. It's time to focus." Like Wipro, Cisco is now facing steeper competition, and from a broader array of players.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

It may not be fair, and you may not want to hear it, but chances are that previous leaders have poisoned the ground on which you’re trying to grow a successful business. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. The brutal truth is probably not. Carl had a Ph.D. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

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. MISTAKE #2: Underestimating the impact of small acts of dishonesty. About the Author.

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