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.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. Tip 2: Talk to all the actors, not just entrepreneurs. Thinking that entrepreneurs alone reflect the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem is a common mistake by even esteemed experts. Kenneth Andersson.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 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.

Innovation 13

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Right now, I'm focused on global innovation and especially getting to know new start-up companies and entrepreneurs in countries like Israel and South Korea that might be good partners for us in the clean-tech and consumer health spaces." Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Find out who reads it and how far it travels.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.

CEO 8

CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 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. There is a reason venture-backed firms account for 11% of all US employment. Against this backdrop, venture capital is aggregating.

IPO 8

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. Although fiercely independent, these entrepreneurs struggled with back-end administrative tasks.

Transportation 8

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States. Helena had dreamed of starting a nonprofit that would seek out, mentor, and support high-potential entrepreneurs in Latin America. Although she was based in Manhattan, she traveled constantly and was a frequent keynote speaker.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. It’s this small cut of every trade that makes platforms so alluring to today’s platform entrepreneurs.). The count’s protection even extended to those traveling to the fair.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Long-term Marketing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist and an investor in Couchsurfing, Getaround, Uber and other startups in this space, believes these services will have a major impact on the economics of cities; “This is a movement as important as when the web browser came out.”.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 8