2013 Innovation Marketing Venture Capitalist 
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 28, 2022
Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2014
2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The ongoing poor performance of venture capital firms should be an obvious problem for institutional investors.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 17, 2017
When venture capitalists (VCs) evaluate investment proposals, the language they use to describe the entrepreneurs who write them plays an important but often hidden role in shaping who is awarded funding and why. All told, we observed closed-room, face-to-face discussions leading final funding decisions for 125 venture applications.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 16, 2013
It’s hard to underestimate the power of an attractive or unattractive market in driving outcomes for companies, including start-ups. As Andy Rachleff, one of the founders of the venture capital firm Benchmark has said “When a great team meets a lousy market, markets win.”. Is the market attractive?
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
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.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2014
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. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2014
If marketers want to produce content, they need to think like publishers. After all, content isn’t an extension of marketing, it’s an extension of publishing. It’s also attracting large investments by established companies and venture capitalists. Aren’t publishers failing?” Aren’t they?
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