Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. To do that, you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. Why does it need to be a small market?

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Finance Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Kleiner 368

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”.

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Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. When you are ready to raise money, scratch Sequoia, Kleiner, and maybe one or two other top dogs off your preview list. But raising venture capital is sometimes a great idea. Some of these might be surprising or seem hard to follow.

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Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Public funders — the various state economic development agencies — don’t care about opportunities in the abstract, either, but about opportunities that create jobs, particularly where unemployment is raging. Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.”

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Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This candid admission comes from Beth Comstock, GE's Chief Marketing Officer. GE and its venture capital (VC) partners such as Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital have invested $134 million (of $200 million allocated) in a small selection of these businesses. "We're looking for new models of innovation. Most definitely.

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Innovation Kleiner Entrepreneur Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9