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Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

So an innovation that changes the cost of experiments changes the landscape for venture funding. Some VCs shifted toward an approach colloquially referred to as “spray and pray” — VCs ‘sprayed’ money in more directions, and ‘prayed’ rather than governed.

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Impact Investing Could Accelerate the Fight Against Cancer

Harvard Business Review

Precision medicine refers to delivering the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, and in the right sequence. UBS’s role was to market the fund to its private wealth clientele. Three big ideas underlie these new approaches: precision medicine, disease-focused investing, and investing at scale.

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Your C-Suite Needs a Chief Data Officer

Harvard Business Review

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Data-driven decision-making requires a series of steps best referred to as the "data production line." Gerstner, Jr. Ensuring the company is wired to make data-driven decisions.

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Make Your Competition Work for You

Harvard Business Review

We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. As a result of our increased coverage and wider range of solutions, we both gained revenue and credibility, while reducing marketing and development.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 million jobs.

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