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).
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 31, 2017
Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.
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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. But an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2015
They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
For example, a yield curve, which compares bonds with the same risk profile but different maturity dates, can be considered a model. For example, Point Nine Capital uses a linear model to sort potential startup opportunities based on variables representing the quality of the team and the technology. Here’s one example.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2017
To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.
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