Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 24, 2014

Despite making a powerful initial impression, the entrepreneur lacked motivation and consistently missed important business commitments. He’d been a successful venture capitalist and invested in several incredibly profitable companies in the past. As we talked, he told me how livid he was with the owner of the company.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 14, 2021

For instance, angel investors or venture capitalists may not place much importance on your credit score. The first thing is to take account of your current financial activity and commit to adopting more responsible payment habits. Your Credit Score Doesn’t Hold the Same Weight in Every Situation.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

For instance, angel investors or venture capitalists may not place much importance on your credit score. The first thing is to take account of your current financial activity and commit to adopting more responsible payment habits. Your Credit Score Doesn’t Hold the Same Weight in Every Situation.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 20, 2017

In this guest post, Exponential Director Todd Wilson and vision expert Will Mancini show us how to identify two of our biggest vision slayers: Imagine getting a group of venture capitalists fired up about a new restaurant concept that’s going be the next phenomenon across the dining landscape of America.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

But there is that moment, and everyone can feel it, when a project or the commitment to the promised results enters the risk zone – when challenges arise and there are no clear answers or remedies. They also need to realize that everyone on the team may not share their level of maniacal commitment. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” A plan helps detail how the opportunity is to be seized, what success looks like, and what resources are required, and it can be key to the investment decisions of angel investors, banks, and venture capitalists. The truth, though, is that we just don’t know if it pays to plan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. That marked a 50% decrease from its peak of $5.3

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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.”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. When an employee sees you committing any act of dishonesty or two-facedness, they’ll assume that you’ll do the same to them. About the Author.

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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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2021

Gage the risk and rewards of this method before committing to it so you don’t lose all your finances. Unlike venture capitalists, who are more concerned in getting in the ground floor of a possibly massively successful business, angel investors provide money based on other reasons. Apply for Business Grants.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Scott Anthony will show how organizations can improve an idea''s chances by ensuring full commitment to innovation. The best project managers, he writes, have a "magical" impact; companies need to do a better job of supporting and encouraging them.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. When an employee sees you committing any act of dishonesty or two-facedness, they’ll assume that you’ll do the same to them. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, venture capitalist John Doerr has helped fund Intuit, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and a host of other well-known tech companies. And if the leader’s not committed, don’t bother. Morgan to commit to deploy it throughout their company. Commitment is third. They have.

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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.” High-output cultures are all about fierce competition, crisp execution, and a relentless commitment to service.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But venture capitalists need to target a 10X return and gladly tolerate a higher chance of failure in exchange for a greater expected payoff. Let''s say you earn $4 million after 5 years on the $100K you put in; assuming you give up $500K in total salary, this is a 100% CAGR). When is a secondary offering a bad idea?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Scott Anthony will show how organizations can improve an idea’s chances by ensuring full commitment to innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

As one of the world’s most accomplished venture capitalists adopts a new role at his company, it might be time to adopt some of his insights at your company. The definition of an entrepreneur, Doerr likes to say, is someone who “does more than anyone thinks possible with less than anyone thinks possible.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

That means you must recruit ‘A players’ through a big vision of the future and a personal commitment to a mission. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It's hard to argue with the assessment of Thomas Perkins , the legendary venture capitalist and a former HP director (who has hardly covered himself in glory during this mess), who told the New York Times back in August: "I didn't know there was such a thing as corporate suicide, but now we know that there is. That was 1994.

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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. But it was the Bruins' work as a team, a collective show of commitment and determination, that won the day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

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. But when he realized his circle had become dangerously small, he committed to regular breakfast meetings with new colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

No matter how many calls I made (no fewer than 300 during a nine-month period) or emails I sent (ditto), I simply could not get anyone at any of the companies contacted to commit to either lab visits or research meetings. They didn't want my passion; they wanted the passion of the committed researcher or aspiring entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Between 1977 and 1984, venture capitalists invested over $400 million in 43 manufacturers of the drives. Their original study was of new entrants into the Winchester disk drive industry, a sector every bit as hot and exciting back then as start-ups like Uber are today.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Vance has received huge attention for his book Hillbilly Elegy , chronicling his time as a venture capitalist who grew up in rural Ohio, and the difficulties his background presented. Class migrants tend to be viewed as less competent, less ambitious, and less committed to their jobs than higher-class people, research shows.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Union Market has worked to overcome these issues through programs like Launch Pad, which enables aspiring entrepreneurs to pitch new restaurant ideas to a panel of renowned chefs and venture capitalists. None of these guidelines will be useful without commitment to a long-term vision and strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With the cost of starting digital companies low , local governments stimulating entrepreneurship , and venture capitalists expanding operations , graduates are seeking to become their own bosses right out of college. But with the talent pool stretched, even founders struggle to find partners or staff.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

People manager: To what extent do leaders build competence, commitment, and contribution of their people today and tomorrow? Strategist: To what extent do leaders articulate a point of view about the future and accordingly adjust the firm’s strategic positioning?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. It is also significant that energy production technologies are still attracting investment from VCs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled. We don’t have 25-30 category leaders in the United States; we don’t have [as many] in China right now, but we have it in India.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Venture capitalists are close behind. Boston's Innovation District was launched with clear vision and commitment, but, surprisingly, one of its keys to success was that it had no detailed plan, budget, organizational structure, nor even an officially designated team. Best processes are more important than best practices.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

When we''re trying to implement a new idea, explore a dream, or disrupt ourselves , we often have to bridge a language gap: for example, the seemingly impenetrable dialect of technology, or the specialized lingo associated with a particular profession, jargon of venture capitalists, or even the patois of a different team within your firm.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There are three pieces of data that are particularly shocking to internet, software, and biotech entrepreneurs who are on the verge of committing their firms to starting firms in secondary startup markets (and, in particular, outside of the San Francisco Bay). Raising venture capital isn’t the be all and end all of entrepreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Indeed, over 60% of startups backed by venture capitalists fail and evidence points to the most successful VCs having bigger “hits” as opposed to fewer failures.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Instead, it would serve as a connector, recruiting local business leaders to commit to helping entrepreneurs. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. Unamano’s purpose wouldn’t be to raise cash and spread it around.

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