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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The VC industry has failed to innovate.

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Meaningful Work Beats Over-the-Top Perks Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Earlier in my career I spent 14 years as chief talent officer at Netflix, where I helped create some of the innovative talent management policies — such as no-formal-limit vacation policies — that have since become widespread. (I Venture capitalists don’t give money away; eventually, they want a return.

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It's Time for a "Slow Conversation" Movement

Harvard Business Review

My career has been built mostly around the Internet. My day job as a venture capitalist focuses on innovations in digital media and big data, and new models of business information and community connectivity. Which, leads me to three resolutions for 2013 that all swim against the mass-connectivity tide: 1.

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Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

Using human-centered design methods, inspiration for the company’s signature products is drawn directly from its cadre of famous and not-so-famous practicing athletes, with whom the designers directly interact with to devise authentic performance innovations and style updates. How can this type of commitment to design contribute to results?

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

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. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.