Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

If the public sector is to realize the full potential of digital technology to transform public finances and even kickstart national economic growth, governments will have to move beyond streamlining services and cutting red-tape for entrepreneurs. Let’s look at the lessons from the private sector. One example comes from Estonia.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2019

Starting a new business venture can be an incredibly exciting time, but you must also be careful and well-organized during this period, especially when it comes to your finances. This can be tricky with so many areas that need attention and particularly if this is your first business venture. Venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

The definition of an entrepreneur, Doerr likes to say, is someone who “does more than anyone thinks possible with less than anyone thinks possible.” 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Because there was a relative dearth of industry in Northern California, tech entrepreneurs tended to stick together. Engineers became entrepreneurs and got rich. The Hard Road of Hard Tech.

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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. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

The next-largest segment of small businesses is comprised of what I call Main Street entrepreneurs. These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. That dialog includes all stakeholders, from the entrepreneurs themselves to investors to government policymakers. Even better. Not" is not a typo.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The company had five years of growth experience and nearly 200 employees; most important, it was run by an aggressive local internet entrepreneur, Zhou Hongyi.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

First-time entrepreneurs lack the seasoning to captain a steady ship through turbulent waters. Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability of a business, or to mentor naïve entrepreneurs. opened in 1959 and is still operating. Most of them fail.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Insight Center.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

I first had them meet with an Israeli army signal corps general (who was in the midst of overseeing a military operation); then we headed to a beach to engage in team building and camouflage exercises with young Israelis preparing for elite military combat units. Tip 2: Talk to all the actors, not just entrepreneurs. Kenneth Andersson.

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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. Under such conditions, entrepreneurs must be creators who build industries rather than disrupters who change them.”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

too, have undoubtedly helped, connecting Israeli entrepreneurs to investors and a large market. Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. Good relations with the U.S., Israel’s early embrace of tech and VC continues to pay off.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Moreover, they operated on a scale that is unthinkable in a business climate that prizes “nimbleness”: in 1960, GM had 500,000 employees on its payroll. A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources. Strategy” led “structure,” as historian Alfred D. Chandler (who researched Sloan’s book) put it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

But the crowdfunding jewel is fool's gold, and is inherently incapable of harnessing "people-to-people power" and the "wisdom of crowds" to "democratize access to capital for entrepreneurs" in order to "create wealth and make things happen," as crowdfunding sites publicly proclaim. I know it is not good for the investors."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

In connecting creators and entrepreneurs directly with customers and funders, it transforms the opaque and oligarchical market for early-stage fundraising into a more democratic, open one. However, crowdfunding is more than another way of raising funds.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).

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