Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You have no funding, but you have to convince some engineer who’s already juggling 15 job offers (including offers from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google) to join you to help finish your product. Is this engineer going to accept your job offer? Beyond equity, you have two things to rely on: vision and personal charisma.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. You’ll not only find customers and employees more easily, you’ll likely find funding as well. For DC’s cybersecurity entrepreneurs, venture funds like In-Q-Tel & CORE Capital have emerged to fund such endeavors. The list goes on and on.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Finance Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Startups are an engine of prosperity, albeit a highly imperfect one. By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. Though venture capital funds account for only about 0.2% This equivalence is too cynical by half.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Web developers can personalize recommendation engines, allow users to see their friends' purchase history, and draw on detailed demographic data available through the Facebook network. Whether Facebook IPOs for 80B or 100B, the venture funds that invested prior to 2011 will have plenty of capital to return to their limited partners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 position.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8