2013 Project Technology Venture Capitalist 
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2014
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. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return.
Strategy Driven
MAY 16, 2014
Venture capital and private equity firms tend to congregate in certain areas—notably Silicon Valley, New England and New York. Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. About the Author.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. Some time shortly after the recession, venture capitalists decided clean tech wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and started making bets elsewhere — mostly in internet start-ups.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2013
They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.
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. The new guys are frequently trying new things that we need to know about.”
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
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. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good.
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