The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

” He goes on to quote a highly successful Silicon Valley venture capitalist, “In the world today there’s plenty of technology, plenty of entrepreneurs, plenty of money, plenty of venture capital. What’s in short supply is great teams.” ” Good managers foster teamwork.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 20, 2017

Play Bigger provides you the playbook you need to learn how to become a category king. It's essential for entrepreneurs wanting to change the landscape. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies. "Category design is a process.

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Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

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

In a recent interview, I asked Dan how he deals with the high-risk factor of the business he’s in. Marshall: One thing that I love about what you are do as a venture capitalist is you grapple with the fact that most investments fail. How do you deal with this fact? Below is an excerpt from our talk.

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Positioning Venture Capitalist How To Learning-by-Doing 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2019

Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, says there’s a lot about navigating the venture capital world that entrepreneurs don’t understand. Some can’t figure out how to get in the door. Many don’t know how the deals and relationships really work.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Advice Diversity 9

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 28, 2016

Play Bigger provides you the playbook you need to learn how to become a category king. It's essential for entrepreneurs wanting to change the landscape. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies. "Category design is a process.

Venture Capitalist 50

Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Play Bigger provides you the playbook you need to learn how to become a category king. It's essential for entrepreneurs wanting to change the landscape. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies. "Category design is a process.

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Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2019

Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, says there’s a lot about navigating the venture capital world that entrepreneurs don’t understand. Some can’t figure out how to get in the door. Many don’t know how the deals and relationships really work. ”

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Advice Diversity 8

The Idolbuster

APRIL 7, 2014

Peter Gregory, a venture capitalist, gives a teary-eyed TED talk explaining why people should skip college and just go to work. We wouldn’t have successful entrepreneurs if they were not visionaries, people who can see the world as it could be. After all, the destination does not come with a map on how to get there.

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Venture Capitalist Software CEO Travel 45

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Recently I was rereading Judy Robinett''s best-selling book, How to Be a Power Connector , which was named by Inc. I''ve known about incubators, angel investors and venture capitalists, but Judy mentions some sources that were new to me: family offices and crowd-funding. She also encourages entrepreneurs to ask for help.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Amongst the world’s ambitious graduates are some of the next generation’s entrepreneurs and innovators. As well as student debt, there is also the issue of financial know-how. Let’s take a look at some of the most common financial blunders graduate entrepreneurs make. Many entrepreneurs overspend on office space and tech tools.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Banking Credit Scoring 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Can we please agree that there is no such thing as a corporate entrepreneur? The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. Fly-your-own-plane-to-your-own-private-island-level wealth. Persistence.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

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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Entrepreneur Kleiner Venture Capitalist Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Many entrepreneurs have their entire net worth tied up in their companies. For a long time, this is exactly what most venture investors wanted: more to gain (and lose) means a stronger incentive, greater focus, and better performance - right? In many cases this lack of diversification is overkill and actually hampers performance.

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Incentives Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist CAGR 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.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Corporate executives are exhorted daily by well-meaning public leaders that they should support their local entrepreneurs in order to be good corporate citizens and to bolster local economies. But engagement with entrepreneurs is not a question of conscience or moral imperative; it is a question of strategic self-interest.

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Entrepreneur Supply Chain Venture Capitalist Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

While entrepreneurs are grasping for venture capital, the nation's leading firms seem puzzled about how to spend their money. Entrepreneurs follow a different path for a simple reason: they have to. If its ambition was to improve on current products in tiny increments, venture capitalists would ignore them.

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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.

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Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

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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Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

With that in mind, how do we find new ways to fund India’s tech startups and build global businesses? Today we’re seeing a maturing of the industry, and entrepreneurs now want to build products as well. But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 22, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur. The very first page of the first chapter “Just Do It&# highlights the way how Sir Richard Branson views an opportunity. Its even 100% free!

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Venture Capitalist Licensing Entrepreneur Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The American economy was built in large part based on entrepreneurs over the last 250 years that helped pioneer companies — first an agricultural revolution, then industrial revolution, and more recently the information revolution. Say, toward venture capitalists pouring money into the next photo sharing app.

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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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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Bravo entrepreneurs. Bravo venture capitalists. Obama has placed real entrepreneurs at the heart of the dialogue, and you appear to be listening to them. As a leader, Obama makes entrepreneurship a top priority, and has consistently promoted entrepreneurs as central economic actors and key to economic recovery.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A new wave of entrepreneurs have created innovations that address pressing human needs: a hand-powered solar lamp that reduces a family's dependence on dangerously flammable oil for adequate light; a network of neighborhood-based grocery stores that sell fresh produce; a low-cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies in developing countries.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Business Model Human Needs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. A few will survive, Schoendorf says. Nice to hear!

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Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

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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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

The only thing that surprises me about the recent furor over sexual harassment by Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that people are surprised. Typically this leads to handwringing about how we can make women more confident and less risk averse. We have been watching these stories go viral for a long time.

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Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In October, I described how two entrepreneurs told us about the business they had built — featuring a fully functional website and lead customers — for less than $10,000.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Innovation-led growth can square a circle that is challenging modern capitalism: how to generate sustained and sustainable economic growth, built on high-value, well-paying jobs. The problem is how to get there. Entrepreneurs then see growth opportunities, and business investment follows.

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Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8

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. The event brought together some 250 entrepreneurs and investors for a series of panels, round tables, and a business plan competition. Yes, there are challenges.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

The play’s enduring power comes from its straightforward telling of the human story — our aspirations and disappointments and how we deal with them. I’m a longtime wine enthusiast, and this was the first time I’d read a book on the subject that so simply distilled how to think through the smell and flavor of a wine.

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Power Venture Capitalist Self-aware Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. It is shaping the new game of industrial businesses on a worldwide basis and showing other companies, regardless of their size, complexity, and history, how to proceed. Think like a large-scale entrepreneur.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer). The second step is to test like an entrepreneur. Venture capitalists, on the other hand, have a portfolio mindset, knowing that not every investment will generate a positive return. Insight Center.

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Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The startup world offers an example of serial diversification: everyone recognizes that, even entrepreneurs who “do everything right,” will fail more likely than not. But entrepreneurs can diversify over time by being involved in different ventures – dramatically increasing the chance that skill will pay off over time.

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Entrepreneurs, too, are moving downtown: London, Boston, Barcelona and Buenos Aires are balancing the suburban pull of Silicon Valley and Route 128. Venture capitalists are close behind. At the same time, the influx of ambitious, highly educated, opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs may risk creating social divisiveness.

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Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

In February, venture capitalist database CB Insights conducted an extensive review examining what contributes to the failure of new businesses. The findings raise the question: How can entrepreneurs or new product developers test their ideas before investing the significant time and capital required to actually bring them to life?

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