Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

Consequently, last year I founded TheFounderProject - a new type of venture fund run almost entirely by students that invests in student startups. We are now a team of 30 ‘ student venture capitalists ’ from all universities in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax. Startups are the main drivers of economic growth.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation. When we consider Covid-19 and its global impact, what are the most successful organizations doing to prepare for the future?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. Last year, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in China, we spoke with one of the country's most celebrated scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Speaking at the recent Global Philanthropy Forum , Toyin Saraki — founder and president of the WellBeing Foundation Africa — articulated her evolving approach to giving. In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They are not afraid to speak out either and many have taken on an advocacy approach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But as with so many aspects of American economic ingenuity, high-tech startups have now truly gone global. cities continue to dominate the global landscape, including the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, but the rest of the world is gaining ground rapidly. Globalization. A number of U.S. Urbanization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If its ambition was to improve on current products in tiny increments, venture capitalists would ignore them. If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But do such gestures actually help slow global warming? billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. That marked a 50% decrease from its peak of $5.3

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of these firms also work with nonprofits; for instance, Teneo’s Declan Kelly has a longstanding relationship with advocacy network Global Citizen. Private equity usually involves a complete takeover of a single company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The problem is far more insidious than those articulated in venture capitalist Bill Gurley’s thoughtful CLV vivisection. For example, for a global industrial equipment provider, customers became more valuable when they performed more self-service diagnostics and shared that information with the firm.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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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. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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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. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

When women do seek funding, venture capitalists do not respond positively when their business concepts fall outside of traditionally “feminine” areas such as fashion or children’s products. Others counter that having fewer women founders as role models contributes to fewer women seeking start-up funding.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

The billion dollar mark gets thrown around by venture capitalists as shorthand for the level of success they’re looking for when they invest, since the typical outcome for start-ups is failure and thus VC firms bank on a few mega-hits to generate returns. billion; of the 37 globally, nearly half fail to clear the bar.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

A venture capitalist there was essentially running an imitation fund. Naturally, I was looking for something new, not just in the African context, but globally. But I experienced a different perspective in Abuja, Nigeria, two months ago when I visited to keynote a tech conference.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Of course, these unhappy pathologies are global phenomena. Patients undergoing complex heart operations, clients getting legal advice and venture capitalists investing millions in entrepreneurial teams might understandably want to know the cognitive health of their doctors , lawyers and entrepreneurs. Get ready to manage them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. Both programs have evolved over the years and have traditionally been considered the two premier accelerator programs globally.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

You can feel the tension in the compressed smiles, quick nods and pointed questions at the annual Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare conference. And venture capitalist John Doerr, who has invested in green technology, likes to say, "We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

But in a global business environment that is changing exponentially , the market moves too quickly. Venture capitalists, on the other hand, have a portfolio mindset, knowing that not every investment will generate a positive return. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It will also require overcoming a few major misconceptions: Entrepreneurship is confused with self-employment. Whether it's this decade's declared 100 million MENA job deficit or the 400 million world job deficit, the implicit assumption in the Davos dialog was that the brute force of self-employment and small business will somehow turn the tide.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, an inventor who could reduce global dependency on oil by designing better batteries? By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. If the person who can cure diabetes came to you for money, if you were a VC you’d likely turn that person away. That VC might not even take the meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Singapore is positioning itself as the global exchange, where West meets East and where India and China are both reachable via relatively short direct flights.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. Indian entrepreneurs are feeling bullish about global markets. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

With the global recovery underway," echoed TK Kurien , CEO of the IT business, "you require simplicity, you require speed, and for that we need to make sure that we have a structure that is simple to understand.". We hope the organizational change will result in faster growth." It's time to focus."

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The discussion focused on how companies, consumers and governments can work in new ways to solve the major challenges around sustainability and the global environment. And rapid changes in the global climate have left companies with little alternative but to embrace sustainability. trillion by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

To get a sense, I talked to some venture capitalists, whose profession it is to keep their eyes and minds trained on the future. Mark Gorenberg , Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners, which is focused on investing in analytics and data startups, told me, “AI historically was not ingrained in the technology structure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally. An influx of that scale would dwarf the approximately $78 billion invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2015.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2015

With a $50 million gift from venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, through their private family foundation, Rice University is planning an unconventional approach to developing students into leaders. A hallmark of the Doerr Institute is its focus on cultural and global diversity and inclusion. Retired Brig.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them.

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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. The Global Digital Economy. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

general and former CIA director David Petraeus, now a partner in the global investment firm KKR and Chairman of KKR’s Global Institute. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. As one successful venture capitalist told me, “we try to make new mistakes each day.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

” London, New York, and Paris are being overtaken over by an invasion of the global super-rich, which one writer described as a shift from mere gentrification to full-on “plutocratization.” . “Some of the apartments cost £50 million or more. And no one lives there—it’s always dark.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But that is the territory of entrepreneurship — even with deep financial backing from the rare venture capitalist or angel investor (yes, these are the exceptions in entrepreneurship, not the rule), long term viability of any venture is far from guaranteed and can leave the corporate partner in the lurch.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

— data from the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that the vast majority of the 69 countries surveyed reported higher entrepreneurial activity among immigrants than among natives, especially in growth-oriented ventures. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S.

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