Strategy Driven

JANUARY 23, 2020

How are you going to finance the idea which you have in your mind is the main question. When you read the biography of any big businessmen they all tell how they gather up finances. What information is required by a bank or a Venture Capitalist for Providing an Unsecured Business Loan? Try to clear your mind and focus.

Credit Scoring 66

Credit Scoring Banking Venture Capitalist Finance 66

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2021

Venture capitalists, self-funding, crowd-funding, and loans can all be a good fit at times, but in some industries, government grants are the easiest, fastest way to grow. Tim Carter is an entrepreneur and the owner of Discovery Tree Academy , a top rated childhood development center with locations in Springville and Payson, UT.

Venture Capitalist 123

Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy PR Self-aware 123

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The data showed that trademarks often helped obtain better terms when raising finance, and were generally a good predictor of future success, both as a private firm and later on when they go public. In total, they assessed over 55,000 trademarks registered by firms that had received backing from VCs between 1985-2015.

IPO 52

IPO Venture Capitalist Finance Advertising 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Amongst the world’s ambitious graduates are some of the next generation’s entrepreneurs and innovators. Let’s take a look at some of the most common financial blunders graduate entrepreneurs make. Brimming with optimism, entrepreneurs are renowned for overestimating revenue. Some will have a carefully defined business plan.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Banking Credit Scoring 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Harvard Business School professor Laura Huang, whose new book “Edge” explores methods for turning adversity into professional advantage, is joined by Venture Capitalist Arlan Hamilton to discuss her strategy of backing entrepreneurs who have been ignored because of stereotypes, biases, and preconceptions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Strategy Books 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

A recent article quoted several VCs supporting the idea that entrepreneurs should be paid $100k (or less) per year until their companies are profitable. Finance Venture capital' What if LPs structured VC compensation that way? LPs can pay VCs to do what they say they will: generate returns well in excess of the public markets.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

When venture capitalists (VCs) evaluate investment proposals, the language they use to describe the entrepreneurs who write them plays an important but often hidden role in shaping who is awarded funding and why. One major thing stuck out: The language used to describe male and female entrepreneurs was radically different.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

Male entrepreneurs are the beneficiaries of the overwhelming majority of venture capital investments. ” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. .”

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” A plan helps detail how the opportunity is to be seized, what success looks like, and what resources are required, and it can be key to the investment decisions of angel investors, banks, and venture capitalists. This has done little to help the would-be entrepreneur decide whether to plan. We found that it pays to plan.

Planning 14

Planning Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance 14

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

JUNE 9, 2014

The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. Entrepreneurship Finance'

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

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.

Entrepreneur 62

Entrepreneur Tips Venture Capitalist Insurance 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Many people come to the Silicon Valley in search of nonconformist entrepreneurs, looking for the next big thing. The way to conform in the Silicon Valley is to act like an entrepreneur. To find a nonconformist entrepreneur, we should look to places where entrepreneurship is unpopular. Consider Tokyo.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Kleiner Venture Capitalist Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The report, provocatively titled "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us" [ PDF ], summarizes its findings thus: Limited Partners — foundations, endowments, and state pension funds — invest too much capital in underperforming venture capital funds on frequently misaligned terms. Maybe that's just the way it is.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

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. The net result is that many VCs now turn down promising companies that might contribute to transforming the way we produce energy.

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

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.

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. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality.

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. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

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

JUNE 7, 2012

The report, provocatively titled "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us" [ PDF ], summarizes its findings thus: Limited Partners — foundations, endowments, and state pension funds — invest too much capital in underperforming venture capital funds on frequently misaligned terms. Maybe that's just the way it is.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

As female entrepreneurship gains steam, interest from venture capitalists will grow as well. Today, the greatest number of multimillion-dollar women-owned businesses are in wholesale trade (20%), finance/insurance (12%), and transportation/warehousing (11%). Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder."

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Benchmarking Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Most great businesspeople I've met would correctly advise an entrepreneur to avoid raising money if possible. There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one. Some venture guys will give you grief.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

If we think about what venture capitalists do well it boils down to this: Identifying the right opportunities, backing the right people, and finding ways to help entrepreneurs succeed. An entrepreneur earns the right to more time and more money based on the results. The opposite is true in the social sector today.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Core Competence Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Research by Harvard Business School senior lecturer Shikhar Ghosh, in fact, has found that fully 75% of venture capital-backed startups — presumably the crème de la crème of the startup world — failed to return the capital invested in them to their investors (let alone generate positive returns). Entrepreneurship Strategy'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more. Given the vagaries of industry disruption, he became concerned. But you have to play the long game.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There’s a sense that it’s up to us to get the country back to work, and that’s driving entrepreneurs to Detroit, Baltimore, Providence, and any number of cities that have struggled with unemployment. Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth.

IPO 9

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

The next-largest segment of small businesses is comprised of what I call Main Street entrepreneurs. For example, a “mom and pop” Main Street shop has different financing needs than a high‐tech startup. One might need a bank loan while the other might need a patient equity investor like an angel or venture capitalist.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

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

MARCH 8, 2013

It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. Even development banks in emerging economies, like China and Brazil, are doing more than Silicon Valley-type "entrepreneurs.".

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

For years, entrepreneurs lucky enough to have a wealthy Uncle Harry or Aunt Sue have used third-party guaranties and third-party asset pledges to bridge the collateral gap. Apparently we cannot count on traditional sources such as venture capitalists, angel investors, and private equity firms to do this.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

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.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

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.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

In venture capital-financed, high-growth technology startups, only 9% of entrepreneurs are women. Of course, VC-financed tech startups are different from the general workforce. They suggest that’s why female entrepreneurs have trouble securing financing from venture capitalists.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Finance Succession IPO 8

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. For them the goal is to achieve customer validation, not financing.

Incubator 16

Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 16