Leading Blog
JUNE 15, 2020
I F you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing. For some entrepreneurs, raising financing can seem like a full time job, particularly in these trying times. Unfortunately, much of this advice is wrong. Well not, wrong exactly.
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
You should definitely look for available options of personal financing if you are ready to take risks and comfortable with the potentially bad consequences. For instance, you can ask for some debt financing and then pay it back with interest, or simply you add them on as partners in your business. Or Venture Capitalists.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2015
In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2011
The story of finance over the last 25 years has been the story of innovation run amok — and of our systematic failure, as a society, as companies, as individual leaders, to learn from mistakes we seem determined to keep making. But it has also become clear that the rapid growth of microcredit. has made the loans much less effective.".
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 1, 2017
The true promise of a culture, argues influential venture capitalist Ben Horowitz , is to “be provocative enough to change what people do every day.” Leadership scholar John Gardner calls this outlook “tough-minded optimism,” and it’s a hallmark of cultures that can move and morph with the times.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2014
I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. When things go poorly for a nonconformist, how easy it is to call them the fool. Nonconformist thinking has the best potential for genius.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2015
EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit.
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