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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

And as the shift away from the industrial economy continues, a wider percentage of this institutional capital will go towards innovation startups through a rise in speculative investing , which has been predicted by a number of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Bringing Global Philanthropy Closer to Home

Harvard Business Review

In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. abc* arranges events for leaders, businesspeople, and the impact community to brainstorm about the region''s pressing challenges and share best practices.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

But the Council was not the typical think tank for brainstorming ideas. EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit.

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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. BuildDirect encourages its people to propose imaginative, off-the-wall, and even downright weird ideas.

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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

CIOs network with Valley technology leaders and venture capitalists in search of creative solutions to traditional IT problems. ’s Keiser shifted to open floor plans for their departments, scrapping the model of fixed offices and high cubicles in favor of open space for brainstorming and closer seating for teams.

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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

Brainstorm potential outcomes, barriers, and opportunities, then assess the likelihood of these coming to pass. Many leaders have been beaten over the head by financial owners like venture capitalists, equity funds, or hedge funds to believe that both the vision and all objectives should be financial.