CEO Insider

MAY 21, 2020

As outside general corporate counsel to well over a hundred startups in all stages of growth in my legal career, across the innovation ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond, I am often asked by startup founders and entrepreneurs to help them with capital raising and introductions to venture capitalists, business angels, and family offices.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Female entrepreneurs pursuing innovative business ventures face a significant hurdle in securing funding due to unconscious bias exhibited by investors, as revealed by a study conducted by Northeastern University.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 26, 2012

As some of you know, I am passionate about networking, leading indicators and innovation from new combinations of existing things. I’ve been wondering how networks can be leading indicators for innovation! The Venture Capitalist in me finds this very interesting. and the intersections (or not) between them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2024

A conversation with Stanford GSB professor Ilya Strebulaev on embracing disagreement.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

My friend Dan Levitan, venture capitalist and managing partner of Maveron does. Marshall: What is venture capital? Venture capital is pretty simple to explain. America is a country of innovation. And, that innovation needs to be funded. Thank you for this great 101 view of what a venture capitalist does!

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A recent report from the Innovation Finance Advisory for the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) highlights the ongoing challenges faced by female entrepreneurs in access to funding and support to create and scale their businesses.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 25, 2014

Venture capitalist and former AT&T Labs scientist Deb Mills-Scofield does. BIF10 Brown University Culture Innovation Leadership Networking Saul Kaplan Strategy business model' Thank you Nicha Ratana-Apiromyakij & Saul Kaplan for this honor and story about BIF10. I am so privileged and blessed to be a part of BIF.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2023

The entrepreneur and venture capitalist explains how ongoing volatility can be transformed into an opportunity for innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2022

While I have voiced concern that entrepreneurship has become too enthralled by the wants of venture capitalists and are therefore more concerned with lucrative acquisitions than in actually running a successful business, it would nonetheless be churlish to diminish the important role the sector plays in supporting early-stage businesses.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 30, 2013

Connection Cultures are required to maximize innovation, employee engagement and productivity, a case we made in our book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity. Some years ago I gave a presentation on Connection Cultures at the Innovation Council.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

I loved this line: “Venture capitalists have one of the greatest jobs in the world. If you try to thread the needle with an innovation that is just good enough, you may miss [the target] entirely. Most failure result from poor execution, not unsuccessful innovation. Try to act normal.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2020

HR tech firms are flourishing as venture capitalists’ love affair with standard-setters in HR SaaS offering continue to grow. According to HRWins by LaRocque LLC, venture capitalists invested $1.741 billion in HR tech companies during the first quarter of 2019 and $1.448 billion in the second quarter.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 24, 2021

This means that there is a huge amount of uncertainty involved when venture capitalists decide whether to invest in tech start-ups,” the researchers explain. They analyzed around 400,000 English-language tweets about 37 different technologies and over 4,600 venture capital funding rounds from 2008 to 2017.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2022

With venture capitalists often investing huge sums in startups, one would assume that these investments are based on detailed assessments of the capabilities of the startups and the entrepreneurs behind them. The researchers analyzed data from nearly 4,200 new ventures and the founders behind them.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The competition aims to support innovative solutions to some of the most pressing environmental, social, and economic concerns facing society. They have teamed up with around 300 universities to uncover innovative ideas from students, graduates, and PhDs from around the world.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of the day, the reason most of these platforms are dominated by men is because all the venture capitalists and engineers and other founders are mostly men,” the researchers conclude. “If It’s also a problem that may well afflict other underrepresented groups, such as people of color. “At

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

. “ This tension may not be recognized by those making the investment decision and over time could result in substantial losses for people who, on average, possess much less investment knowledge than angel investors and venture capitalists.”

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

” He goes on to quote a highly successful Silicon Valley venture capitalist, “In the world today there’s plenty of technology, plenty of entrepreneurs, plenty of money, plenty of venture capital. What’s in short supply is great teams.” ” Good managers foster teamwork.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. He shows that, while important, digital is only part of the answer?and and it’s never the only answer.

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I did not interview for Brainlogic that ended up on Collaborative Innovation. Wednesday night I attended a Cinemonde screening of "Something Ventured - Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists" (not to be confused by the autobiography on CM Woodhouse called Something Ventured ) It is a great documentary film.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 26, 2019

In Goliath’s Revenge innovation experts Todd Hewlin and Scott Snyder argue that there are six main factors that underpin this newfound defensive success. It’s change of the substantial kind. This data has grown in importance due to the ability to utilize AI to derive insights from that data.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

You can also take finance from venture capitalist or angel investor. Angel investors are high-value individuals, and venture capitalists are companies. In some places, universities and other organizations offer low-rent spaces designed for new business ventures, especially when accompanied by innovative scientific ideas.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 30, 2015

Venture capitalist and former AT&T Labs scientist Deb Mills-Scofield does. Thank you Nicha Ratana-Apiromyakij & Saul Kaplan for this honor from TIME magazine. How many people end business meetings with an “I love you” and a hug?

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 30, 2015

Venture capitalist and former AT&T Labs scientist Deb Mills-Scofield does. Thank you Nicha Ratana-Apiromyakij & Saul Kaplan for this honor from TIME magazine. How many people end business meetings with an “I love you” and a hug?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Trademarks differ from patents in that whereas patents capture technological innovation, trademarks allow companies to differentiate themselves in their advertising. They can often be costly to acquire and maintain, so can also provide a real signal of intent about a firm and its products to investors.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. Alex Osterwalder Business Model Innovation Culture For-Profit Innovation Leadership Mali Health Menasha Packaging Social Entrepreneurship Strategy'

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Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

We are now a team of 30 ‘ student venture capitalists ’ from all universities in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax. And, it’s resulting in innovation and economic growth. Aron Solomon Culture Founders Project Innovation Leadership Millennials Startup Student Startups entrepreneur' How does it work?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2020

At the heart of their hypothesis is the notion that older adults have a variety of passions, and that these passions can feed into new ideas and innovations. What’s more, these innovations are often with the interests of the community at heart rather than any personal or commercial gain. “A Fear of missing out.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 9, 2014

Investment: Venture capitalists have traditionally funded for-profit businesses with a strong focus on ROI – Return on Investment vs. ROI m – Return on Impact (ROI m will be a forthcoming blog post). Business Modeling – social vs. regular.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2020

This successful venture capitalist invests in founders before they have a business idea.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation. Fourth, competition is no longer company-to-company; it is ecosystem-to-ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

The VC industry has failed to innovate. If the partners aren’t enthusiastically committing meaningful capital to their own fund, LPs should assume that the fund is too big, the investment strategy is too risky or unproven, or that the VCs do not have confidence in their own ability to generate the returns they promise.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 4, 2010

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2016

This may seem like an odd statement coming from a entrepreneur turned venture capitalist and professor who has spent the last few years in my role at Carnegie Mellon studying scaling startups and teaching a popular graduate course titled The Science of Growth that was recently turned in as a book.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 23, 2020

What information is required by a bank or a Venture Capitalist for Providing an Unsecured Business Loan? Moreover, try to discuss your business plan with the other successful entrepreneur so that you may also get tips for your business venture.

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