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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

One could certainly be forgiven for not recognizing such a picture, especially if you’re a regular reader of the technology press, which features a daily exposition of the vast sums being raised by startups around the world. When we look beneath the surface of all of this activity, however, it’s not exactly a pretty picture.

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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. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return.

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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

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.

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Female Entrepreneurs Go Beyond "Cookies and Crafts"

Harvard Business Review

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." As female entrepreneurship gains steam, interest from venture capitalists will grow as well. Entrepreneurship Gender'

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Why One Executive Quit Business Travel Cold Turkey

Harvard Business Review

If you’d like to have an in-person meeting with venture capitalist Brad Feld , there’s only one place where you can do it: Boulder, Colorado. He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

It’s also attracting large investments by established companies and venture capitalists. Samir Husni, Director of the Magazine Innovation Center, also points out that in recent years publishers have taken concepts from other media platforms, like All Recipes , HGTV , and Food Network , and turned them into successful print brands.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

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.