The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Responding to feedback in the right way and at the right time is crucial to the long-term success of any new venture. 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

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Unfortunately, research from INSEAD argues that such proposals may actually end up doing more harm than good in terms of ensuring greater equality of investment into startups. “Interestingly, female founders who receive investment from both male and female investors seem to do very well.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 14, 2021

For instance, angel investors or venture capitalists may not place much importance on your credit score. The same goes for term loans, or what people usually think about when talking about business loans. Short-term lenders will usually put more importance on business revenue over your credit score and might be more lenient.

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Credit Scoring Finance Venture Capitalist Short-term 68

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

The long-time CIO of Google, Ben Fried, indicated that the way in which that company has maintained its entrepreneurial spirit despite growing into a behemoth has been its ability to attract and retain people who are comfortable with and even drive change, even if it means cannibalizing what has worked in the past.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 4, 2016

This client is a venture capitalist, and before he commits to any new project, opportunity, or job, he decides on an exit strategy. If it is not appropriate, I write down my long-term plan and my exit strategy and review it monthly, adjusting it as needed, but not adjusting for expectations!

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

For instance, angel investors or venture capitalists may not place much importance on your credit score. The same goes for term loans, or what people usually think about when talking about business loans. If you have steady cash flow but didn’t have time to build your credit history yet, short-term loans might be a good option.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We already know that innovation is largely in decline, with breakthroughs today not only less frequent and less revolutionary than in the past, but also considerably more expensive to achieve, both in terms of money and manpower. This is despite the average startup today remaining private twice as long as was the norm in the past.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. The long-term success of both new and existing companies requires abandoning the old Alpha leadership and structural model and adopting the Beta paradigm,” argues Ardi.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. The long-term success of both new and existing companies requires abandoning the old Alpha leadership and structural model and adopting the Beta paradigm,” argues Ardi.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. The long-term success of both new and existing companies requires abandoning the old Alpha leadership and structural model and adopting the Beta paradigm,” argues Ardi.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. Our results reveal striking differences between venture capitalists’ gender-stereotypical beliefs and actual performance of these ventures.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. But analysts are judging EBITDA, P/E ratios, quarterly growth, and cashflows – which don’t always correlate with long-term value creation. There has to be a better way. Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If you are inside a big company, profit-draining ventures are typically early sacrifices in corporate cost-cutting exercises. There''s a term in the psychology literature for this — the availability heuristic. Growth is great, but profits are more convincing proof of long-term viability.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. It''s much-needed advice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Startups require ferociously hard work and long hours, and companies like Google realized very early on that if employees spend less time worrying about where to eat lunch or when to pick up their dry cleaning, both employee and employer will benefit. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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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.

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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.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Union Market has worked to overcome these issues through programs like Launch Pad, which enables aspiring entrepreneurs to pitch new restaurant ideas to a panel of renowned chefs and venture capitalists. Long-term thinking with short-term flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

CLV brings both quantitative rigor and long-term perspective to customer acquisition and relationships. The problem is far more insidious than those articulated in venture capitalist Bill Gurley’s thoughtful CLV vivisection. That’s what makes customer lifetime value (CLV) so popular in so many industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In a recent conversation, Renee DiResta, a Principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures , noted: “Things that generate recurring revenue are actually more appealing to venture capitalists. Options for control points also expand through the IoT.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Even when startups have great products and customer interest, they struggle with long-term growth. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Historically, venture capitalists have bypassed founders’ limitations and desire for control by swapping in new CEOs who have more professional experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Quality matters. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

But as long as you are fair, as long as you do what you say consistently, you will still be trusted. The cost of untruths to an organization can be huge in terms of time, money, trust, and reputation. You can be tough. You can be demanding. You can be authentically whoever you really are. Don’t punish ‘good failures.’

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Many innovation groups want to have it both ways, acting as a partner to the business units to help them tackle near-term opportunities, while also developing further-out, “disruptive” ideas that could shake up their industry. That leaves many ideas swimming around inside the corporate fish tank for far too long.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. In other words, how founders built their companies on the inside, from the start, influenced their companies’ success on the outside, for a long time. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success. To find out why, we went out into the field.

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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.” But the reality of competition today is that long-term success is virtually impossible without short-term stumbles.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Notwithstanding their rapidly growing economies, China and India are a long way from attaining technological parity with developed countries like the US. In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest R&D spender (in purchasing power parity terms) after the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

But as long as you are fair, as long as you do what you say consistently, you will still be trusted. The cost of untruths to an organization can be huge in terms of time, money, trust, and reputation. You can be tough. You can be demanding. You can be authentically whoever you really are. Don’t punish ‘good failures.’

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Doerr himself is famous for making clear the kinds of companies and leaders he likes to bet on and what he believes it takes to create long-lasting value in fast-moving times. ” They’re “all about the pitch and the deal” and are eager to sprint for short-term payoffs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In a memorable, hour-long PBS interview with Charlie Rose during the 2008 crisis, Buffet gave a master class in how the world got into its economic mess and what we can learn from it. But it has also become clear that the rapid growth of microcredit. has made the loans much less effective.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. The algorithm isn’t good enough to distinguish Facebook from MySpace, so it won’t help venture capitalists do their work.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

T REN GRIFFIN, who writes the well-read 25iq blog , has assembled a collection of insights for entrepreneurs from some of the most successful venture capitalists and coaches of business founders in the world. Rich Barton: “It’s much more powerful long-term to make up a new word than it is to use a literal word.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

As venture capitalist Jeffrey Bussgang says in the Times article, if a CEO proposed the kind of pay minimum Gravity is rolling out, there would be a tough conversation at the board level. And are we just maximizing short-term results or investing in the right things for the long haul? And that’s fair.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Zuckerberg's casual calculation reminded me of a conversation with Marc Andreessen, the legendary cofounder of Netscape, and now one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile venture capitalists. But I am suggesting that there is more to long-term performance than the excellence of your individual players.

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