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. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? What gives?

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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. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? What gives?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

For years, those of us who study business innovation have been thrilled by the results and influence of Muhammad Yunus , Grameen Bank, and the idea that one powerful way to fight poverty is to make small loans to villagers (mainly women) who have tons of energy but no access to capital. has made the loans much less effective.".

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

So, if impact investing is still within this early stage of experimentation and iteration, what lessons learned from the formation of the venture capital industry might we apply? Venture capitalists finance structured experiments — with relatively modest amounts of money and time — intended to produce valuable outcomes.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Core Competence Morale 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. But the locus and scale of this activity is now changing.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve met so many leaders who are brilliant when it comes to product design and capital structure but who treat the people in business as an afterthought, a matter of sound administration as opposed to daring innovation. ” That’s the spirit I’ve seen at companies with the most powerful cultures.

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Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” They’re all about “the big idea” and partnerships that last, and they understand that “this business of innovation is something that takes a long time” — it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Missionaries, on the other hand, are “strategic.”

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Entrepreneur Kleiner Venture Capitalist Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation' Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. But boldness by itself is a dime-store commodity.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Bravo venture capitalists. The elegance of entrepreneurship is that, when it works, success breeds success, and so a powerful way of knowing if a program is successful, is to remove the props and see if it stands on its own two feet. Encourage financial entrepreneurship and innovation. Bravo President. Bravo White House.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 14

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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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Rather than relying on venture capitalists and marketers to try to project nascent demand for new innovations, creators can directly reach out to customers and communities to refine ideas and gauge interest. Crowdfunding, however, shows that platforms can also serve as the basis for lasting businesses and important innovations.

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Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology.

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