HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2020

HR tech firms are flourishing as venture capitalists’ love affair with standard-setters in HR SaaS offering continue to grow. According to HRWins by LaRocque LLC, venture capitalists invested $1.741 billion in HR tech companies during the first quarter of 2019 and $1.448 billion in the second quarter.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Recently, I interviewed my friend Dan Levitan, venture capitalist and managing partner of Maveron. Marshall: One of the really important things I’ve learned from you, Dan, that is critical in venture capital, is the concept of “exit strategy”. Dan: Exactly! Marshall: You’ve got to sell it!

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Exit Strategy Venture Capitalist How To Strategy 70

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. He is also a venture partner at several VC firms. N OW that almost everyone is working from home, startup founders looking to raise money from investors will need to do so remotely.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Consider it a great personal development opportunity and an economical way to provide leadership training in your organization (or to supplement the leadership development activities you already have in place). This is an opportunity to learn from top experts at no cost. Over recent years Adults learn from a variety of sources.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Reply Leanne Hoagland-Smith October 8, 2010 at 9:42 am Agree your reading should be one of your professional development or mental development goals depending upon your own goal driven action plan. Reading a variety is fundamental to being a well rounded individual. Thanks for bringing this topic up, it’s important!

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. We think cities can do better.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups. Selected startups become real suppliers, with purchase orders and supplier numbers, from day one of the venture client program.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

We recently developed a novel idea for a consumer electronics company. In Procter & Gamble facilities you often will see project teams pitching new ideas outside the corporate cafeteria. Participants would build businesses in real time and get feedback — and potentially funding — from venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

That is the problem: crowdfunding will at best be good only for the entrepreneurs and middlemen, paid for by unwitting consumers who simply cannot know enough about the highly risky ventures or the highly complex venture investing process to make informed investment decisions. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

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Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." You can see them most evenings at Noisebridge (pictured below) — a collective space for learning and doing projects together whose members'' main guiding principle is to "be excellent to each other.".

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

I spend most of my time at Babson launching projects in other countries to foster entrepreneurship , but I was in the U.S. Bravo venture capitalists. Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing? Bravo President. Bravo White House. Bravo corporate America.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

After working in a fast-growing company as COO, he accepted an offer from venture capitalists to start his own company. Those selected for development have one universal trait in common: They are by definition high achievers. First, coach them to continuously attribute credit to others for any successful project.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The average amount of capital raised by a Blockchain project through an ICO in 2017 was $13 million; through the third quarter of 2018 it was $25 million. Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

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. There is no obvious moment when the danger of failure comes riding in on a pale horse. About the Author.

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. And the impact will occur in the next 24 to 36 months, based on the following data and projections: Let's start with Internet access. Yes, there are challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Remember, collaboration is overrated if you haven't got the right project. Without a broad network, you will be tempted to keep staffing your project with the "usual suspects." Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

This isn't because organizations can't identify new opportunities or develop new and novel concepts; many can and do. When new ventures are intermingled with the main business, projects usually end up fixing problems in the current business instead of finding new paths to growth. Reframing Risk. Future Growth Structures.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

This frustration is compounded by the fact that the usual levers senior executives use to get things to go faster — creating tight deadlines, flooding the project with resources, checking in more frequently — don''t seem to work, and in many cases cause teams working on disruptive ideas to actually go slower. Why is that?

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects , with pledges coming from over 5,000,000 individual backers. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has helped fledgling projects raise nearly $1 billion in donations. The crowdfunding service Kickstarter reached an important milestone last week.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand. It is working with an ecosystem of partners who are developing applications leveraging the dynamic learning and cloud computing capabilities of Watson.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. stage to the next.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Venture capitalists are close behind. Develop an inclusive vision of high growth entrepreneurship. Boston's Mayor Menino and his staff developed and have repeated hundreds of times the mantra of the Innovation District: "Live, work, play." Best processes are more important than best practices.

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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. ” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

And I drew on my years of experience with startups, both as co-Editor of Mashable and a venture capitalist. This is because we have an innate need to figure out whether the incident signals a threat or a positive development. I learned that there are seven triggers that call people to attention: Automaticity. Reputation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

To turn IT processes into agile business processes, both of these companies are stepping back from the more conventional waterfall software development commonly found in the corporate world, and turning to the ways of the tech firms: agile, scrum-style development with deliverables rolling out every couple of weeks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Even gridlock in Washington has not stopped the economy from progressing. Increase your R&D spending.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. There are two ways to set revenue targets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

With the world's population projected to swell to 9 billion by 2050, it is apparent that companies and countries must figure out how to provide a high quality of life to many more people using drastically less "stuff.". Winston also noted that the public discourse about sustainability is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. Indeed, as the clean-tech sector demonstrates, the venture capital industry is proving itself more risk-averse than U.S. The latter are the ones funding the capital-intensive and highest-risk projects.

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Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

According to Rafael Reif, MIT''s president, who spoke at the Davos conference this past January, there are three major buckets that make up the total annual expense (about $50,000) of attending a top-notch university such as MIT: student life, classroom instruction, and projects and lab activities.

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. While our primary focus is in India, Embrace is doing pilot projects with NGO partners in 10 countries, and we hope to further scale this year.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. ” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

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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Innovation Venture Capitalist Engineering Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

So Acumen finds entrepreneurs on site in the developing world, funds them, teaches them and pushes them to build really big organizations. As a result, stores in the developing world tend to be stocked with the classic, the tried and true, because people buy refills of previous purchases, not the new. And so it grows.

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Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

T he OpEd Project , which tracks the range of voices and quality of ideas we hear globally, coined the phrase “pink topics” to describe the areas in which women are most frequently visible as opinion leaders. These teaching notes are widely used to guide instructors on how to approach the cases in the classroom. Pink topics.

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Case Study Venture Capitalist Education Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.

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