Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2023

Executive coach and former venture capitalist Jerry Colonna takes questions from listeners struggling with stretch responsibilities.

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Venture Capitalist Executive Coaching Execution Planning 16

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 22, 2013

If you were to go to a bank or venture capitalist and ask for funding to start your new business, they would never accept a one-year business plan. Most IDPs are written for a one-year time horizon, sometimes even less. I’m wondering if that one-year default time-period needs to be challenged.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Marshall: One thing that I love about what you are do as a venture capitalist is you grapple with the fact that most investments fail. And that has changed the way I think about helping guide people who come to me about careers. In a recent interview, I asked Dan how he deals with the high-risk factor of the business he’s in.

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Positioning Venture Capitalist How To Learning-by-Doing 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Investors have perpetuated a compensation structure where VCs can generate significant personal income over their career, even when they make no money for their LPs. And the fee-based compensation isn’t trivial – in all but the smallest funds, the partners make high six, and more often seven, figures in fixed cash compensation.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2020

Indeed, venture capitalist Paul Graham once quipped that he rarely backed any entrepreneur older than 32. Indeed, they’re also more likely to have wealth of their own to pump into the new venture and a variety of experience from their career to date. Fear of missing out.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. Dana Ardi, Ph.D. is the founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors. Donnelly & Sons and at McGraw-Hill.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. Dana Ardi, Ph.D. is the founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors. Donnelly & Sons and at McGraw-Hill.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 62

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. Dana Ardi, Ph.D. is the founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors. Donnelly & Sons and at McGraw-Hill.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2019

Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Mike Troiano, a venture capitalist and former executive. Do you want the corner office someday?

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Something you didn’t touch on, was a reverse imbalance…when we are too immersed our our industry/our career and we forget to take time for our hobbies, and a little ‘fun’ It’s just as important to our overall health and success. You can’t talk about this too much.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2019

Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Jerry Colonna, a professional coach and a former venture capitalist. Are you being pushed outside your comfort zone?

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 20, 2024

“A small number of astute venture capitalists have suspected this for some time, but now we have the data to demonstrate this is the case.” . “We find that personality traits don’t simply matter for start-ups — they are critical to elevating the chances of success,” the researchers explain.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. But the downside — the thought of our careers as the playthings of fate — is almost unbearable. If you imagine a game of “career roulette,” you end up a starving artist 99 times for every time you end up a rockstar.

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Pontormo knew he needed to make these frescoes the crowning achievement of his career, so he sealed off the entire chapel. When despondency threatens, leading venture capitalist Brad Feld follows a shared set of ground rules with his spouse , including cutting out screen time on weekends and spending one week a quarter off-grid together.

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Creativity Venture Capitalist Arkes Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom. Lots of things, actually.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Earlier in my career I spent 14 years as chief talent officer at Netflix, where I helped create some of the innovative talent management policies — such as no-formal-limit vacation policies — that have since become widespread. .” Venture capitalists don’t give money away; eventually, they want a return.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

So, if impact investing is still within this early stage of experimentation and iteration, what lessons learned from the formation of the venture capital industry might we apply? Venture capitalists finance structured experiments — with relatively modest amounts of money and time — intended to produce valuable outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. And you can control it through continuous and open communication with every member of your team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline. Reward decision-makers who back winners. Think weekly, not quarterly.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. About the Author. John Hamm is one of the top leadership experts in Silicon Valley.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When you are young, or when your why is non-existent or has gone missing, which happens to most of us at some juncture in our business or career, it may be that you just need to move forward. Career planning Managing yourself' So what place does vision have in the midst of disruption? Her “how” has morphed over the past two decades.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

For instance, I have 12 years of working with entrepreneurs as an early-stage venture capitalist; 19 years working for a large corporation (Bell Labs & AT&T) and consulting to their multi-national, multi-billion dollar customers; 10 years of mentoring entrepreneurs; and created a carve-out start-up within AT&T.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mentor Education 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

It might also be why people are quitting their consulting gigs and investment banking positions to pursue a career in start-up land. It's why venture capitalists tend to favor entrepreneurs that have a proven track record (PDF). Does the team have a track record? Winners know how to win.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

At INSEAD, two students Philippe Dongier and Katie (co-author of this post) sent a school-wide email asking if anyone was interested in cultivating coursework and careers related to nonprofits. Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them. Each year, over one hundred CEOs retire from the S&P 1000.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. About the Author. John Hamm is one of the top leadership experts in Silicon Valley.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

One of the startups that is leveraging Watson is WayBlazer , a new venture in travel planning that is led by Terry Jones , a founder of Travelocity and Kayak. He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT. What does it all mean for the future of AI?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

But even stuck in our current reality, you can still do some things to advance your own career. A male venture capitalist said, "You two have to meet." There are clearly still major systemic changes that need to occur for women to achieve parity. Start by seeking out connections to both women and men.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Zuckerberg's casual calculation reminded me of a conversation with Marc Andreessen, the legendary cofounder of Netscape, and now one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

They are eager to hire lieutenants whose career zigzags have created a burning desire to succeed in a new job. Imagine the remorse of a venture capitalist unwilling to back Steve Jobs in 1977, because the personal-computer pioneer never finished college. Small-company chief executive officers voice a similar lament.

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Venture Capitalist Chief Executive Officer Energy Ethics 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. Kathryn Minshew may simply be a better time manager than I am.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

My career has been built mostly around the Internet. 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. I could not be a bigger proponent of technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Neither hedge fund managers, nor venture capitalists, nor mutual fund managers came anywhere close to these results. As a person who has spent part of her career helping companies appreciate and use design to their advantage, I will be the first to tell you that making it a central part of strategy isn’t always easy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As one successful venture capitalist told me, “we try to make new mistakes each day.” During his military career, Petraeus stressed the importance of the “strategic corporal,” the young leader whose tactical actions could have strategic consequences, advancing or undermining an overall campaign.

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