Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

What clinched the deal for me was the almost instant friendship I had developed with the CEO of the acquiring company. Then, only two months into the deal, the venture capitalists that controlled our board pushed out my friend and replaced him with a total stranger. A few weeks later the former CEO flew in to see me.

Venture Capitalist 294

Venture Capitalist Leadership CEO Commitment 294

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

A study just published in the Academy of Management Journal examined how others aspects of CEO personality impact firm performance in small and medium enterprises (SME) in a dynamic industries (e.g. Strategic choice is shaped between the ears of the CEO, and the CEO’s strategic choices either enhance or inhibit strategic flexibility.

CEO 118

CEO P&L Company Venture Capitalist 118

QAspire

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The concept behind SW is simple – people with interest in starting their own ventures spend a weekend together (54 hours) in a group and present their ideas, get like-minded individuals on-board, collaborate and start quick prototyping. A statistic by CEO of Startup Weekend says that 58% of teams had a working beta at the end of the weekend.

Venture Capitalist 142

Venture Capitalist Mentor Entrepreneur Diversity 142

CEO Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Wednesday night I attended a Cinemonde screening of "Something Ventured - Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists" (not to be confused by the autobiography on CM Woodhouse called Something Ventured ) It is a great documentary film. Good sore and self inflicted in any event so tough to complain.

Venture Capitalist 147

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Film Innovation 147

The Idolbuster

APRIL 7, 2014

Peter Gregory, a venture capitalist, gives a teary-eyed TED talk explaining why people should skip college and just go to work. You might also like this post about a visionary CEO who was a nightmare to work for. My favorite characters where the two visionaries who get in a bidding war for Richard’s super hot algorithm.

Venture Capitalist 45

Venture Capitalist Software CEO Travel 45

Eric Jacobson

MAY 20, 2017

Key traits of category design , explain the authors, are: A strategy that starts with your CEO and his/her leadership team identifying the right category to create. And, a must-read for CEO's who want to reimagine their businesses. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies.

Venture Capitalist 50

Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Key traits of category design , explain the authors, are: A strategy that starts with your CEO and his/her leadership team identifying the right category to create. And, a must-read for CEO's who want to reimagine their businesses. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies.

Venture Capitalist 50

Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and venture capitalist Robert Siegel , this is false – nothing in life or business is ever that simple. One of the best leaders I ever saw demonstrate this attribute was Bernard Tyson, the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente. Digital innovation is the answer to everything.

Strategy 140

Strategy Venture Capitalist Innovation Company 140

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. Howard was the CEO of a small company that had just gone public with 150 stores, called Starbucks Coffee Company. Below is an excerpt from our talk. How do you deal with this fact?

Positioning 70

Positioning Venture Capitalist How To Learning-by-Doing 70

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 28, 2016

Key traits of category design , explain the authors, are: A strategy that starts with your CEO and his/her leadership team identifying the right category to create. And, a must-read for CEO's who want to reimagine their businesses. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies.

Venture Capitalist 50

Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 24, 2014

He’d been a successful venture capitalist and invested in several incredibly profitable companies in the past. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. ” he grunted angrily. Coaching'

Venture Capitalist 152

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Learning-by-Doing Energy 152

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2016

This may seem like an odd statement coming from a entrepreneur turned venture capitalist and professor who has spent the last few years in my role at Carnegie Mellon studying scaling startups and teaching a popular graduate course titled The Science of Growth that was recently turned in as a book. Consider leaving a comment!

Venture Capitalist 50

Venture Capitalist Critical Success Factor Entrepreneur COO 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

As one of the two name partners at Andreessen Horowitz , he is one of the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. As the cofounder and CEO of Opsware, a software company that was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 Wartime CEO "cares about a speck of dust on a gnat's ass if it interfered with the prime directive."

CEO 15

CEO Venture Capitalist Sharpe Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Venture capitalists exhibit some strange behaviors, but none is more bizarre than the near-inevitable scheming to remove a company's founder-CEO. The process, instituted by a particular stripe of venture capitalist, represents the acme of "adult supervision" by the VC, a destroy-the-village-to-save-it moment of investor heroism.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Gordon CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

How are the CEOs of Airbnb and Uber, Brian Chesky and Travis Kalanick, different from the founders of earlier tech companies? Because of these challenges, these companies required a different kind of CEO — extroverted, a good storyteller, a politician, someone who could charismatically rally customers to their cause.

CEO 8

CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

. “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Like many CEOs, he had had no time to plan his retirement — all his focus had been on running the company. Each year, over one hundred CEOs retire from the S&P 1000. ” It can be especially hard on CEOs who are women.

Simon 13

Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. Yet the CEO and founder of Fetch Robotics, Melonee Wise, cautions against that way of thinking: “For every robot we put in the world, you have to have someone maintaining it or servicing it or taking care of it.”

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. So he asked the CMO to broker a meeting with the CEO to make a presentation on the subject. During the presentation the CEO was polite, if noncommittal. Carl had a Ph.D. But he came from a family with humble roots.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

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. But once we acknowledge that we are the stories we tell ourselves, we realize that we can rewrite the script.

Creativity 13

Creativity Venture Capitalist Arkes Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

” When I made it past the lobby and into the CEO’s office, I asked about the daily booze service. The CEO talked about how difficult it is to recruit top talent. ” That equation has completely changed during the current boom, when venture capitalists are pouring money into new ventures.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

One CEO who was constantly entertaining requests from his sales force for changes to the company’s product line – change orders – in response to ‘customer requests.’ Failing to measure what matters. The right metrics will serve you in enormously useful ways.

Team 50

Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With a well-developed business plan, entrepreneurs are also much more likely to attract angel investors or secure funding from venture capitalists. A business plan sets out the financial and operational objectives. Overestimating revenue. Brimming with optimism, entrepreneurs are renowned for overestimating revenue.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Banking Credit Scoring 12

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. So he asked the CMO to broker a meeting with the CEO to make a presentation on the subject. During the presentation the CEO was polite, if noncommittal. Carl had a Ph.D. But he came from a family with humble roots.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

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).

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

had a female CEO. When women do seek funding, venture capitalists do not respond positively when their business concepts fall outside of traditionally “feminine” areas such as fashion or children’s products. While this is true of start-up’s in general, recent data show that in the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Rate of Return 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

So he asked the CMO to broker a meeting with the CEO to make a presentation on the subject. During the presentation the CEO was polite, if noncommittal. But the CMO could sense a duplicity in the CEO’s behavior and attitude as the parties all headed back to their respective offices. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

.” In a recent Strategic Management Journal study with a sample of more than 6,000 companies, Wasserman discovered that founders who keep a powerful central role in their startup as it grows — controlling the board or the CEO position, or both — can harm the firm’s prospects, reducing pre-money valuation by up to 22%.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

As a CEO visiting one of our classes put it, "If you have time, you can be infinitely collaborative, but if you have to fix things in a significant way and you're in a hurry, you've got to be more directive.". Two levers available to any manager stand out in our research on top-performing CEOs: 1. Take Indian IT giant Wipro.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Politics CEO Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Schedules are packed as the high-stakes finance crowd gathers to hear 20-minute rapid-fire talks by CEOs of start-ups and public companies who seek funding or favorable stock analysts' reports. In contrast, my client, the CEO of a new biotech company walks on stage, rolls up his shirt sleeve, and stops at the center of the stage.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Reis Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

"There's a woman you have to meet," said a male CEO during a recent meeting. In male-dominated fields, women CEOs are an anomaly. Tara Hunt, CEO of Buyosphere , recalls one such introduction. A male venture capitalist said, "You two have to meet." She sounds terrific. Aren't you married?". We both chuckled.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation CEO Open-book 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The former you can do with a few staffers and the CEO’s blessing, but the latter requires broad organizational support and ongoing effort. 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 Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In a recent conversation, Renee DiResta, a Principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures , noted: “Things that generate recurring revenue are actually more appealing to venture capitalists. Zach Supalla, the CEO of Spark (an open source IoT platform), says, “With the IoT, you can’t think of a company in a vacuum.

Business Model 14

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

She told the New York Times that paying above-market wages means the CEO is running Gravity “more as a charitable organization, because he could get people for less.” A typical response came from economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth from the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. And that’s fair.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Energy CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Three CEOs in six years. Two of those CEOs who embarrassed themselves with inept campaigns for elective office. The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Where is the succession planning?

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. The implication for today’s business leaders?

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

True entrepreneurship has a potential economic upside that cannot be matched by most employees below the CEO level in large public companies. Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. Private vs. Public.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9