Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. 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. This is non-negotiable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies'' walls, and internal idea contests. And corporate venture funds, if well managed, can avoid the fickleness problem that plagues independent venture capital and crowdfunding. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies’ walls, and internal idea contests. And corporate venture funds, if well managed, can avoid the fickleness problem that plagues independent venture capital and crowdfunding. It’s like that. Ready to Innovate?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If its ambition was to improve on current products in tiny increments, venture capitalists would ignore them. If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. 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

JULY 25, 2012

Venture capitalists exhibit some strange behaviors, but none is more bizarre than the near-inevitable scheming to remove a company's founder-CEO. The process, instituted by a particular stripe of venture capitalist, represents the acme of "adult supervision" by the VC, a destroy-the-village-to-save-it moment of investor heroism.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

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