Women on Business

MARCH 30, 2011

According to an article in the April issue of Harvard Business Review , “Failing By Design,” many venture capitalists won’t invest in a new enterprise if the founder has never undergone failure. Did you know failure is one of the biggest indicators of future success in an entrepreneur? In other words, they are looking for… failures!

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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. No innovation strategy fits every problem , so we need to keep expanding the toolbox.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Paul Volcker famously said the only financial innovation to improve society in recent memory was the ATM. After a reasonable accounting for the fact that the average high-turnover household tilts its common stock investments toward small value stocks with high market risk, the underperformance averages 86 basis points per month (or 10.3

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