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The Right Way to Plan an Innovation Tour

Harvard Business Review

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. But bankers are paying keen attention to those ventures who break away into rapid growth. Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. miles as part of my training.

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. Some focused on personal leadership style of the CEO, others on compensation or training practices, and still others on organization governance and design. from top to bottom, bottom to top, and side to side)?

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts. and the development team in Israel.

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‘My Years with General Motors’, Fifty Years On

Harvard Business Review

For fans of management books, this month marks a big anniversary. It is harder, though, to pinpoint exactly what lessons today’s managers might take from what has been called “the best business book you’ll never read.” Ford, an inventor with no formal training, had a brilliant mind for mechanical invention.

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Should Your Business Be Nonprofit or For-Profit?

Harvard Business Review

Nor did we realize the amount of management time it would require for us to raise this capital as a non-profit organization; precious time that would be taken away from building the product and the infrastructure needed to deliver the product, and to make impact at the scale we had envisioned.

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