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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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 15

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.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders). in 2011 to 2.9%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. Independent venture capital is a vital force in funding start-ups, but VCs tend to have a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies. Finance Innovation' It doesn''t have to be this way. You can see why: For decades in the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. Independent venture capital is a vital force in funding start-ups, but VCs tend to have a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies. Finance Innovation Insight Center_Innovation no-intromercial' Five Ways to Innovate Faster.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology. But right now that’s not happening. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). 3 Defenses of Large ICOs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Breakthrough technologies, such as the internet and biotech, did not emerge from governments worried about “commercialization”; they emerged from the spillovers of investments that were focused on long-run public missions. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance.

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Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. The same report indicates that health care, social assistance, and education are industries in which the growth of women''s ownership has been the strongest. Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." In 1977, only 4.5%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

The true promise of a culture, argues influential venture capitalist Ben Horowitz , is to “be provocative enough to change what people do every day.” They’re constantly scanning for new practices from other companies, new ideas for unrelated industries, a new sense of what’s possible in their own fields.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

As a result, first time entrepreneurs frequently feel that they have been taken to the cleaners by venture capitalists. This exemplifies the famous golden rule of venture capital: "Whoever has the gold sets the rules." One of them claims, for example, to screen ventures using the "same criteria as venture capitalists."

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Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. Over the years. government.

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Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Startups such as Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and Betterment launched robo-advisors as industry disruptors, and incumbents, such as Schwab’s (Intelligent Advisor), Vanguard (Personal Advisor Services), Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have joined the fray with their own hybrid machine/advisor solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

helped to create the nation’s tech industry. ( In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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