Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Gone are the days when the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road were merely an elite cash dispensary. Know that money only gets you so far.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline. Reward decision-makers who back winners. Think weekly, not quarterly.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

It is precisely at this fork in the road – when egos and reputations get shaky – that leaders must recognize the signs of an impending crisis of confidence and intervene with specific messages and actions aimed at getting everyone back into the winner’s mindset. About the Author.

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

A male venture capitalist said, "You two have to meet." There is always some reputational risk when we make an introduction. It's not surprising if men, seeing only two women in the room, assume that the women have something in common. Tara Hunt, CEO of Buyosphere , recalls one such introduction.

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Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation CEO Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. What did I learn at South by Southwest Interactive last week? Foursquare was the phenomenon in 2009.

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Class Venture Capitalist Trends Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Third, invest-tech that can mine social media and other “semantic” data streams is enabling sharper evaluation of companies’ intangible assets, such as customer loyalty and brand reputation. An influx of that scale would dwarf the approximately $78 billion invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2015.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

And I drew on my years of experience with startups, both as co-Editor of Mashable and a venture capitalist. Reputation. I interviewed dozens of leading researchers and attention-grabbing thought leaders, including Sheryl Sandberg, Steven Soderbergh, and David Copperfield, just to name a few.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

It may not be that the idea is bad, but rather your idea doesn't do what early stage investors, or venture capitalists (VC) want done. The social aspect might be reputational, meaning this particular investment reinforces or raises my standing amongst my professional peers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. Some percentage of their gains, then, can be attributed to (a) their reputations and (b) the fact that they buy shares before their public statements have affected the price.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

As industrial era companies, from Mattel to GE, start to transform into software-enabled businesses, executives stand to benefit from understanding three principles that drive venture investors. Returns are defined by home runs, reputations are defined by singles. Venture capitalists never expect their work to be repaid evenly.

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Execution Venture Capitalist Software CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

This lab had a world-class reputation as biomedical technology leader. The second reason was proffered by the big companies and venture capitalists alike: they didn't want an agent like myself taking the initiative to set up a meeting. The research summaries I sent out were customized to the companies and VCs I targeted.

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Venture Capitalist Disintermediation Class Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Equity investors (venture capitalists, private equity, portfolio managers, mutual/hedge fund managers) will use this index to complement existing financial and intangible analysis and gain a more thorough and rigorous understanding of firm’s full market value.

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Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It's hard to argue with the assessment of Thomas Perkins , the legendary venture capitalist and a former HP director (who has hardly covered himself in glory during this mess), who told the New York Times back in August: "I didn't know there was such a thing as corporate suicide, but now we know that there is.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The CEO’s reputation for trustworthiness had been wounded forever. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. I want you to fire him, today.”. About the Author.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange.

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Consider the case of two aspiring venture capitalists: both are very smart and good at what they do. While nearly every career provides reputational benefits for (often unearned) early success, few compound the benefits of early luck as strongly as venture capital. One went to Stanford; the other, Harvard.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. “You are crazy.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled. When they quit, the American company’s brand and reputation takes a hit in India. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Most of the so-called unicorns — startups achieving billion-dollar valuations — are platforms: markets that connects buyers, sellers, and others, with the platform standing between them.

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