2013 Marketing Project Venture Capitalist 
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.
Strategy Driven
MAY 16, 2014
For example, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City and Salt Lake City are among the fastest-growing hubs for high-tech startups in the country, according to a 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation. In layman’s terms, venture capitalists don’t want to fly across the country for a board meeting. About the Author.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
The $50 billion to be divested is a drop the fossil fuel market’s bucket, but to the much smaller clean tech market it’s a tidal wave. Last year, venture capital investments in clean tech totaled a mere $2.8 billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2013
Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz kicks off an inspired post on scaling by quoting the rapper Dorrough, who tells anyone with “a dollar in your pocket, a twenty in your wallet” to focus on one thing: “Get big. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.
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. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 24, 2017
Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Insight Center.
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