Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. It is shaping the new game of industrial businesses on a worldwide basis and showing other companies, regardless of their size, complexity, and history, how to proceed. Think like a large-scale entrepreneur.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Their reality was the noise and the myriad annoyances that go with crowds of people jostling to get to trains. Yes, visit the venture capitalists and the startups, but don''t overlook this other reality. A few stopped in their tracks and listened in awe. Same place, same time — two different realities.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Regardless, good grades get you into college, and knowing how to work gets you into a happy life.” Her “how” has morphed over the past two decades. Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Conference CRM Career 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Because these categories are so new, a drastic shortage of formally trained professionals exist to fill the roles available. As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.". Universities are rapidly growing their engineering courses.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. As these companies figure out how to realize their full innovation potential, we could see some amazing things. Increasingly, I've heard people at large companies ask how to create human resource systems that support innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. Company-wide training programs teach new hires about the culture of a startup, especially focusing on the need for speed. They know how to achieve product/market fit and which ideas to pursue later on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck.

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

As a consultant, I've been trained to sniff out underlings who can only say no (and aren't authorized to say yes), and strategically work to evade them. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. How does he find good prospects to invest in?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. The best PMs know how to push hard on the right priorities, with urgency, but without conveying a sense of panic or stress. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

The only thing that surprises me about the recent furor over sexual harassment by Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that people are surprised. Some Silicon Valley firms are turning to sexual harassment training as a solution. We have been watching these stories go viral for a long time. I’m not discouraging that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Vogel tells it in his painfully long but hugely informative biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China — which I read on trains and planes and in hotel rooms during a trip to China in June organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation — many Communist Party officials were sympathetic to the protesters.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Politics Long-term Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. “At the time, moving close to the market was not a given, and venture capitalists did not have a clear playbook. Israel’s early embrace of tech and VC continues to pay off.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

But one obvious entry point into is the information provided by The Case Centre on award-winning and best-selling cases that are used across thousands of business schools and training programs. These teaching notes are widely used to guide instructors on how to approach the cases in the classroom. Pink topics.

Case Study 10

Case Study Venture Capitalist Education Fashion 10