Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. ” An Alternative Path.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. And corporate venture funds, if well managed, can avoid the fickleness problem that plagues independent venture capital and crowdfunding. Finance Innovation' It''s like that. Ready to Innovate?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. And corporate venture funds, if well managed, can avoid the fickleness problem that plagues independent venture capital and crowdfunding. It’s like that. Five Ways to Innovate Faster.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Big acquirers cash out founders, management teams get folded into big organizations, cashflows disappoint, and visions flounder. Ultimately, high-risk venture capital investors need to be rewarded, ideally with high returns, for an ecosystem of innovation to be sustainable. Entrepreneurship Finance'

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 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. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. An influx of that scale would dwarf the approximately $78 billion invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2015.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 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

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

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. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. Wait a while. If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

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.” A great culture allows clever organizations to be more human, to make everything they do more authentic, real, memorable.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 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

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There are three pieces of data that are particularly shocking to internet, software, and biotech entrepreneurs who are on the verge of committing their firms to starting firms in secondary startup markets (and, in particular, outside of the San Francisco Bay). Raising venture capital isn’t the be all and end all of entrepreneurial success.

IPO 9

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

With interest rates at historic lows, market volatility, political uncertainty, the European crisis, severe commodity price fluctuations, and other unpredictable market conditions, corporate brands and executives have been understandably inclined to sit on the sidelines. But history shows that cash cannot sit idle indefinitely.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz kicks off an inspired post on scaling by quoting the rapper Dorrough, who tells anyone with “a dollar in your pocket, a twenty in your wallet” to focus on one thing: “Get big. Entrepreneurship Strategy Time management'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Effective incubators provide business counseling and management assistance to their client firms. Two things determine whether a business can get off the ground successfully and sustainably: a validated market opportunity with customers willing to pay for a product or a service; and a product or service that addresses such an opportunity.

Incubator 17

Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Yet most remain uneasy or uninvolved when it comes to talking about and managing money. When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home. — USA Today.

Finance 8

Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Managers act more as enablers and connectors, providing regular feedback and tracking progress.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Bravo venture capitalists. Opportunities and markets are global. Entrepreneurs don't need to help America beat China or Brazil in addressing the needs of customers and markets. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.: Bravo President. Bravo White House. Bravo corporate America.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. They have virtually no access to capital markets and little flexibility to experiment at various stages of growth. We believe we are on the threshold of a major change not unlike the early days of the modern venture capital industry.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Nor did we realize the amount of management time it would require for us to raise this capital as a non-profit organization; precious time that would be taken away from building the product and the infrastructure needed to deliver the product, and to make impact at the scale we had envisioned.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

For fans of management books, this month marks a big anniversary. Ford still may have produced the best car for the money, but Sloan’s GM trounced Ford Motors by producing the best product lines for the market. Alfred Sloan’s dream took in what Ford missed in his single-minded pursuit of value for money: the importance of marketing.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. Seek out entrepreneurs who are trying to grow their companies from $1-$10 million rather than startup entrepreneurs (who are often first-timers) pitching ideas that aren’t yet on the market.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. to assist with the local go-to-market approach. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Without it, I worry about a bleak picture for the recovery and follow-on growth.”. Globally competitive. A changing landscape.

Innovation 82

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? Venture capitalists essentially invest in startup ‘experiments’, and subsequently provide more funding to the experiments that work, so that they can run more experiments. Atomic Imagery/Getty Images.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Finance Venture Funding Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Founders face a wide range of decisions when building their startups: market decisions, product decisions, financing decisions, and many more. Venture capitalists could obviously tell the founders to come up with a different equity split, but that causes a lot of strife and heightens cofounder turmoil and turnover.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term Long-term Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. If the world of venture capital can change radically in one year, what else can we transform? Here, blockchain is a real game changer.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8