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. It’s the fundamental starting point for testing whether or not a business idea is feasible.”. A business plan sets out the financial and operational objectives.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Banking Credit Scoring 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. Blockbuster capital raises will always occur in unusual situations (e.g.,

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational. Information: To what extent do leaders manage information flow throughout the organization (e.g.,

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. Career planning Managing yourself'

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Conference CRM Career 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Large pools of capital have been funding risky ventures since antiquity (for example, when the wealthy Marcus Crassus backed an upstart Roman general named Julius Caesar). He was right.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Apparently we cannot count on traditional sources such as venture capitalists, angel investors, and private equity firms to do this. Standard methodologies and ranking systems would need to be developed to lower the risk of loans backed by intangible assets, but this is a manageable challenge.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Managers act more as enablers and connectors, providing regular feedback and tracking progress. Gone are the days when the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road were merely an elite cash dispensary.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Bravo venture capitalists. Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing? Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.: Bravo President.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. We believe we are on the threshold of a major change not unlike the early days of the modern venture capital industry. In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, a new type of investment vehicle was created: the professionally managed venture capital partnership.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Nor did we realize the amount of management time it would require for us to raise this capital as a non-profit organization; precious time that would be taken away from building the product and the infrastructure needed to deliver the product, and to make impact at the scale we had envisioned.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. But bankers are paying keen attention to those ventures who break away into rapid growth. Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Practical solutions.

Innovation 82

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance. ” Others are sure to follow suit.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8