Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

The business model and economic structure of the VC partnership has remained stagnant for the past two decades. Investors should run, not walk away, from such funds. The VC industry has failed to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. Filling out well-known frameworks and streamlining established business models won’t be enough. Albert Shum , Partner Director of UX Design at Microsoft, notes: “Business models are about creating experiences of value.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Often, venture capitalists help young, digitally native businesses achieve this rigor by identifying key metrics surrounding user activity, registration, and engagement that will help approximate the value of data over time.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. Traditionally, entrepreneurs love to talk about their product, but investors need to know about more than just the product - the market, the team, competitors, business model, etc.

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 318

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

As AnnaLee Saxenian explains in her study of the rise of the computer industry in the Bay Area, Regional Advantage , this transaction in large part became the model for the Silicon Valley way of doing business. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

billion before it had even $20 million in revenues) or YouTube (which was sold 19 months after its founding to Google for close to $2 billion), or other companies whose hyper-growth attracted suitors before a viable business model emerged. just acquired for $1.1 But it''s important to consider how incredibly rare these examples are.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

A new business model. It’s really hard for incumbents already deeply invested in an existing business model to follow suit, which explains the success of free newspapers, Zipcar, TripAdvisor, and Lending Club. Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, once said that software is eating the world.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. And of course the more the company pushes the edges of today’s business, the lower those odds sink. All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

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.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. or MySpace or Pointcast or whatever.

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Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In the early days at Netflix, for instance, when DVDs-by-mail was still our primary business model, I used to look at every expense through a simple framework: How many DVDs would it cost? ” That equation has completely changed during the current boom, when venture capitalists are pouring money into new ventures. .”

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Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different. Does pursuing a social purpose require something unique to describe and structure your business? In fact, we agreed that for-profit social businesses are a powerful way to increase impact. The results?

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Venture Capitalist Business Model B2C Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

A venture capitalist there was essentially running an imitation fund. Entrepreneurs need to think about whether they need to innovate when there are business models that can be copied lawfully. And I have also supported the notion that innovation is central to economic prosperity.

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Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Venture capitalist Deb Mills-Scofield explores whether developing a business model differs for "social" and "non-social" companies. Rhett Morris and Linda Rottenberg ask whether entrepreneurs must prioritize financial goals over social ones in order to be successful. And this is just the beginning.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 22, 2008

On a lighter note, Venture Capitalists, please avoid reading this excerpt Excerpts from the first chapter… When I first discovered that my nickname among some members of staff at Virgin was “Dr. The very first page of the first chapter “Just Do It&# highlights the way how Sir Richard Branson views an opportunity.

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Venture Capitalist Licensing Entrepreneur Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? Imagine a business model where you take two years of courses online with the world''s best teachers, followed by two years in structured problem-solving environments.

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. Yet the confusion is real, including within the startup sector itself.

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Venture Capitalist Incubator Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Making Money with Digital Business Models. Between 1977 and 1984, venture capitalists invested over $400 million in 43 manufacturers of the drives. Business models Strategy Economy' ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. What successful companies are doing right.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” It used to be that business growth led to job growth. They take a social problem, like health, poverty, or the environment, then work on finding a business model that can remedy the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. That is not to say people in a large company can’t successfully explore new business models, design remarkable products and experiences, or pursue new markets.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

As innovation thought leader Steve Blank notes, a startup is a temporary organization searching for a scalable business model. There are five ways to accelerate the search for a viable new-growth model: Form small, focused teams. But succeeding with disruption first requires developing a strategic plan that can be executed.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

You have to experiment to validate the problem, the solution, and the business model to bring it to market. Venture capitalists, on the other hand, have a portfolio mindset, knowing that not every investment will generate a positive return. Most companies invest in new growth opportunities like bankers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s also attracting large investments by established companies and venture capitalists. While every business needs to adopt a true culture of change , clearly there is no lack of potential. That publishers need to innovate their business models just puts them in the same place as every other industry.

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Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The business model – where peers can offer and purchase goods and services from each other through an online platform – continues to be applied to new industries from car sharing to peer-to-peer fashion, among many others. Many sharing economy business models do raise legitimate concerns about user safety, privacy and access.

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Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. This strategy is natural since revenue reflects a mature business with established products and business models that can scale up.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

So much of the risks and challenges facing these companies involved whether their business models were legal. How could venture capitalists assess that risk to decide whether to invest? Is it a coincidence that two startups relying on business models that clashed so directly with regulators emerged at the same time?

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CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

The true promise of a culture, argues influential venture capitalist Ben Horowitz , is to “be provocative enough to change what people do every day.” A great culture allows clever organizations to be more human, to make everything they do more authentic, real, memorable.

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Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

And what can Grab teach us about the future of platform businesses? To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. But Grab versus Uber seems to defy this winner-take-all narrative. When and how can a smaller local player fend off a global giant?

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. He was right.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

But innovation in solutions and business models is equally important because new health-care tools and technologies create beyond-the-pill opportunities. Some great business ideas don’t belong in your company, and free-range innovation often drives value-destroying diversification in corporations.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future.

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Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Wealth inequality is on everyone’s minds these days: citizens, political leaders, economists, policymakers and yes, business leaders. Unfortunately, simpleminded thinking and insensitivity are often clouding the conversation.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. To assess such risks to your business, consider the following six questions: Is customer loyalty decreasing?

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Perhaps you've known an entrepreneur, or been that entrepreneur who has pulled together a solid business plan with a perfected pitch and you still have no takers. It may not be that the idea is bad, but rather your idea doesn't do what early stage investors, or venture capitalists (VC) want done.

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