Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

You should definitely look for available options of personal financing if you are ready to take risks and comfortable with the potentially bad consequences. For instance, you can ask for some debt financing and then pay it back with interest, or simply you add them on as partners in your business. Or Venture Capitalists.

Venture Capitalist 65

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Banking 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging). But you have to play the long game.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

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. But an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. So if you feel uncomfortable as an investor, here are two bullets to pack in your pistol: Investing is about financing dreams. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home.

Finance 8

Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. There are new experiments — models that use the tools of finance to try things in different ways — sometimes creating income streams from novel concepts, like funding cancer research. Donations and grants don't allow them to innovate and grow.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8