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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They argue for a €100 billion fund that recruits from both public and private sources and aim for a long-term focus. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments. Alternative investments.

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Venture Capital and Deep Decarbonization (with Energy Impact Partners’ Shayle Kann)

Harvard Business Review

A longtime investor on the challenges of investing in the net zero economy.

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Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up?

Harvard Business Review

Within this context, people in big companies tend to focus more on protecting and preserving their existing businesses than on breakthrough innovations that might cannibalize or destroy them. My point here is not that big organizations shouldn't try to be innovative and fast-moving like start-ups. They just have to do it differently.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. For deeper technologies, you can’t always innovate at a venture capital cadence, where you have to get big super fast.”

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This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Later, they would partner with VentureWell , a nonprofit that focuses on accelerating innovation. According to VentureWell, as of May 2016 the program has trained over 700 teams, which have raised more than $80 million from venture funding, government grants, and other sources. Now there was a plan in place.

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People Are the New Channel

Harvard Business Review

On the belief that everyone in the division would need to support the campaign to make it successful, he spent as much energy cultivating internal ownership as external engagement. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements. Policymakers seem more and more to be looking to play venture capitalist or banker.