Leading Blog
JUNE 15, 2020
Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology. He is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, and venture capitalist and founder of the startup accelerator Play Labs @ MIT.
The Horizons Tracker
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Hype run wild. Instead, markets have become stodgy and increasingly immune to competition.
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LDRLB
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
As I reported here previously , there is very credible evidence that a narcissistic leader will take a company on a wild ride that won’t result in any better or worse performance. high technology). percent in return on assets (ROA), 5.01 percent in return on sales (ROS), and 3.85 percent in return on investments (ROI).”
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise. The median age of technology firms, backed by venture capitalists, doing an IPO has reached eleven years and is increasing.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 10, 2014
Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2014
To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Once again this sounds straightforward.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 24, 2017
The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Insight Center.
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