Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

The Nairobi-based firms include banking-software developer Craft Silicon, digital-marketing agency Pamoja Media, call-center operator KenCall, POS vendor Paystream, and online content aggregator A24. And companies in Accra include venture fund Oasis Capital and agricultural private equity house Injaro Investments.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The six activities are: 1) Identify entrepreneurs (through things like business plan competitions); 2) Train entrepreneurs (both in schools but also in increasingly common startup training programs like the StartUp Institute and General Assembly); 3) Connect and sustain entrepreneurs (through meet-ups or entrepreneur organizations, as well as incubators, (..)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

And if America’s media and cultural elite choose scorn over engagement, the whole economy will suffer. As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation. Tech entrepreneurs are not merely akin to Wall Street bankers, a younger, less formal set of oligarchs in waiting.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. Whether Facebook IPOs for 80B or 100B, the venture funds that invested prior to 2011 will have plenty of capital to return to their limited partners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Omniture has been acquired by Adobe, and was venture-funded by Silicon Valley firms such as Hummer Winblad. But do not do not make a blind decision based on media hype or a cursory understanding of what’s involved. Companies like Omniture, Pluralsight, Steals.com, and others are making excellent progress. Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. Even small gestures, such as sharing someone’s social media posts or commenting on their blog, are thoughtful forms of giving that are likely to be noticed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

So Gimmy decided to create a new name and a unique brand identity for the venture client unit that was independent of the corporate parent yet clearly recognizable as part of the BMW Group: the BMW Startup Garage. Moreover, it has been highly praised by startups, VCs, and the media.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Azeem Azhar speaks to Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen about their parallel career moves – from tech insiders to authors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. Monetizing multitasking will be mass media challenge, not a province of the elites. Both in theory and practice, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Yelp and Reddit have the data and analytics to transform how "likes" get.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Two Indian e-commerce platform companies, Flipkart of Bangalore, founded by a pair of former Amazon employees, and Snapdeal near New Delhi, founded by a Wharton graduate, have each received over a billion dollars in venture funding and are in a war for these customers. India also has a very high density of social media users.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

It’s just not in the mainstream media. After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

We need to also teach them to grow by applying the same kinds of methodology and discipline that, traditionally, a venture-funded company may use. One reason is that entrepreneurs have been fed a myth that entrepreneurship equals venture capital. I have studied some of the reasons behind this mortality.

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