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

In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. As AnnaLee Saxenian explains in her study of the rise of the computer industry in the Bay Area, Regional Advantage , this transaction in large part became the model for the Silicon Valley way of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Not everyone agrees.

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