The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2021

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. . are not initially into the grand vision of young entrepreneurs and young startups.”

Venture Funding 126

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Proposal Media 126

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2020

What’s more, when entrepreneurs were recruited into large companies, the vast majority left because of the way their entrepreneurial instincts were stifled. Research from INSEAD suggests that the most common way of currently working with a startup is via a corporate venture fund. Successful partnerships.

Incubator 88

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Incentives 88

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

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. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

This means internal R&D activities must increasingly shift towards becoming crowdsourced , taking advantage of the wider ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and entrepreneurs. The third business model is creating an ecosystem of entrepreneurs. With the entrepreneur ecosystem, we are behaving more like a Silicon Valley startup.

Venture Funding 13

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

While entrepreneurs are grasping for venture capital, the nation's leading firms seem puzzled about how to spend their money. Unfortunately, Microsoft tied its tablet concepts to its Windows operating system and made them merely pen-enabled personal computers, so these products remained a tiny niche of the computing industry.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

As someone who mentors entrepreneurs, I constantly hear the question from founders located across the United States or around the world: Should we move to Silicon Valley? The talent war for start-ups that lack major VC backing can be brutal, and too many entrepreneurs underestimate this factor. This is no idle question. Costs are low.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

The demands of practitioners and the market supply of innovation from entrepreneurs are simply mismatched. The capital markets that fund education innovation — both for-profit and nonprofit — are largely broken. When for-profit investors fund technology solutions, they naturally seek good returns on their investments.

Education 14

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14