Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Since leaving Netflix in late 2013, I’ve served as a consultant, both to startups and to growth companies that are moving well beyond the startup stage (including Warby Parker, Harry’s Grooming, and HubSpot). .” Venture capitalists don’t give money away; eventually, they want a return.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The chart below shows the number of first funding rounds by venture capitalists, and the total dollars invested. It confirms the fairly well known fact that early-stage venture capital deals are booming — the number of first fundings increased 150% between 2009 and 2012, before plateauing in 2013 and reverting some by 2014.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

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. Maybe 2013 year is the year to begin a slow conversation movement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School urges companies to look beyond the usual R&D approach to consider becoming corporate venture capitalists themselves, a point he expands on in his article "Corporate Venturing" in the October 2013 issue of HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School urges companies to look beyond the usual R&D approach to consider becoming corporate venture capitalists themselves, a point he expands on in his article “Corporate Venturing” in the October 2013 issue of HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. Then, in 2013, she launched Portfolia, a platform that allows start-ups to raise money from the crowd, whether family, friends, or professional investors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." As female entrepreneurship gains steam, interest from venture capitalists will grow as well. In the WPO, the largest number of businesses are in manufacturing and distribution and 25% of members generate over $10 million annually.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In Interbrand’s 2013 list of the World’s most valuable brands , Nike ranks 24 th , two slots up from the prior year and a 13% increase in value to $17.085 billion. Neither hedge fund managers, nor venture capitalists, nor mutual fund managers came anywhere close to these results. The returns in our Design Value Index were 2.28

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

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. Over the first half of 2013, I struggled through a deep depressive episode – my third as an adult. I recuperated in December and hit the road in January to attend CES.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In the early days of founding my current company, The Grommet , I met with a prominent venture capitalist. Five years later I am at the helm of a company that grew its revenues 450% in 2013, and counts one in 200 Americans as a supporter. His firm had a summer incubator program for student entrepreneurs. I already do.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s also attracting large investments by established companies and venture capitalists. Even The New York Times —which, as I’ve noted , has not run its business well— achieved 8% net margins in 2013—not great, but not exactly a tragedy either. Though not everyone prospers, there has never been a better time for publishers.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

For its first four years, Twitter was able to keep the servers running thanks to mainly to $150 million in funding from venture capitalists and angel investors. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. Of course, that “success” didn’t come with a lot of revenue. billion in less than a year.

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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.

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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. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. Granted, it''s not a perfect picture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. growth in GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the three high-level decisions that guide my thinking as a seed stage venture capitalist. This is also why in 2013, the only major company to exit in this space is Chegg, a rental company that has a direct to student go-to-market. Is the market attractive? Is the founder great?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. .—are making substantial investments in AI as well. 4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016. Lastly, private equity firms invested another $1 billion to $3 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Beyond individual firms, there are now more than 1,000 cities across four continents where people can share cars. chain restaurant industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Wait a while. If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. Sell stock in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. In 2012, the share of China-based inventors in patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office was 1.8% and 1.2%, respectively, versus 20.0% in the case of, say, Japan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. billion in 2013. So how do Israeli ventures scale up?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Selecting the top three award-winning case studies and the best-selling cases each year for the five-year window between 2009-2013 yielded a total of 53 different case studies — some of the same cases came up as best-sellers several years in a row, and a few were both best-sellers and award-winners.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

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. based WiFi service provider Ruckus Wireless snatched it up in 2013.

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