Marshall Goldsmith
MARCH 24, 2014
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’d been a successful venture capitalist and invested in several incredibly profitable companies in the past. “Far too many months!”
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 16, 2016
Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. And early-stage clean tech is particularly in need of an influx of capital.
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. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.
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. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.
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