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. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
All too often, MBA students’ previous work experiences center on investment banking, private equity, financial services, consulting, etc – in fact, about 56 percent of Wharton’s 2015 incoming MBA program participants fall in these categories. Finances make people twitchy – and are another source of conflict. It’s easy – too easy!
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 26, 2012
In response, they can choose to participate in more deals or bigger deals. Where accelerators fall short is in leading investment rounds deep into the company's lifecycle, the purview of traditional venture funds. Money scales, time spent on analysis does not.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2017
That spring Rithmio won the COZAD New Venture Competition , and on the strength of that was able to secure $650,000 in angel financing. Later it received an additional $3 million in seed funding from blue-chip investors such as Intel Capital and KGC. Each insight led to a better product. The Future of I-Corps.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2017
By reducing transaction costs among all participants in the economy, blockchain supports models of peer-to-peer mass collaboration that could make many of our existing organizational forms redundant. For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. Here, blockchain is a real game changer.
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