Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Then, only two months into the deal, the venture capitalists that controlled our board pushed out my friend and replaced him with a total stranger. Though the financial incentives were more than generous, giving up control over an enterprise that we had patiently built from scratch was not an easy decision.

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Venture Capitalist Leadership CEO Commitment 294

Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

This is the type of engagement we need to get economies growing, build trust and a sense of ownership for our Millennials as they grow into leadership positions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Even more ironic is the fact that students are the best positioned to start companies; they have less obligations to barriers like family and mortgages.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Project 192

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 22, 2013

If you were to go to a bank or venture capitalist and ask for funding to start your new business, they would never accept a one-year business plan. I’d like to be in a position in my organization where I can have a have a greater impact on the organization and those around me.

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Leadership Development Development Venture Capitalist Leadership 263

Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

We talk about “social businesses” — those that are mission-led and focused on creating positive social change — and “non-social businesses” — those that focus on revenue and profit. Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist B2C Entrepreneur 175

Strategy Driven

JUNE 14, 2021

For instance, angel investors or venture capitalists may not place much importance on your credit score. Another thing you could do that a lot of people aren’t aware of is actually buying positive tradelines that will be added to your credit account without even applying for credit.

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Credit Scoring Finance Venture Capitalist Short-term 68

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

They did so by sending around 80,000 emails pitching various fake startups to around 28,000 different venture capitalists and angel investors. Surprisingly, the ‘entrepreneurs’ with female and Asian-sounding names received a higher proportion of positive replies than their male counterparts.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Information Technology Video 62

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. Doesn''t this also apply to any business - ultimately?

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ROI Business Model Venture Capitalist Early Adopters 132

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Anyone who's trying to get the attention of the young Internet user now has to compete with the dominant position that Facebook has there. On the other hand, they have opened up a lot of opportunities," said David Cowan, a venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park, CA.

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Marketing Godin Venture Capitalist Chief Operating Officer 102

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

The aspects of personality that had a positive effect on strategic flexibility were (in order of importance) openness to experience, extraversion, emotional stability, and agreeableness. Sounds like exactly the type of folks we often promote into positions of leadership. Related Posts from Positive Organizational Behavior.

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CEO P&L Company Venture Capitalist 118

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A popular meme of the dot-com and post dot-com era posited that the lifecycle of big firms today was getting ever shorter. It was evidence of the rapid disruption of the economy, but that is in decline as large firms take defensive positions and either block out or acquire startups from entering their domain.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 53

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. Veteran employees often keep knowledge to themselves to protect their positions, while departments withhold information due to inter-departmental competition.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 78

Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

For instance, angel investors or venture capitalists may not place much importance on your credit score. Another thing you could do that a lot of people aren’t aware of is actually buying positive tradelines that will be added to your credit account without even applying for credit.

Credit Scoring 51

Credit Scoring Finance Venture Capitalist Short-term 51

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. Veteran employees often keep knowledge to themselves to protect their positions, while departments withhold information due to inter-departmental competition.

Venture Capitalist 62

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 62

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. Veteran employees often keep knowledge to themselves to protect their positions, while departments withhold information due to inter-departmental competition.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

When venture capitalists (VCs) evaluate investment proposals, the language they use to describe the entrepreneurs who write them plays an important but often hidden role in shaping who is awarded funding and why. All told, we observed closed-room, face-to-face discussions leading final funding decisions for 125 venture applications.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Influence 8

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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Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one. The notes below are practical working tips on how to go about navigating venture capitalist conversations. Wait to connect with partners.

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Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If its ambition was to improve on current products in tiny increments, venture capitalists would ignore them. If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. The operative question for them is, not “How confident am I that this investment will yield a positive return?” Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. Those that don’t, don’t.

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Venture Capitalist Discounted Cash Flow Parcell Project 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they''ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively. And it''s true that if companies aren''t careful, their internal venture capitalists can become entangled in the agendas of various corporate stakeholders or demotivated by inadequate or poorly designed financial incentives.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they’ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively. That’s why it’s important that venture funds’ goals be aligned with corporate objectives, approvals for funding be streamlined, and compensation levels match those offered by independent venture groups.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” A plan helps detail how the opportunity is to be seized, what success looks like, and what resources are required, and it can be key to the investment decisions of angel investors, banks, and venture capitalists. The truth, though, is that we just don’t know if it pays to plan.

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Planning Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance 14

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. I always tell entrepreneurs that whether they are conscious of it or not, an investor leaves with a positioning in their mind about you and your company. I call it the killer slide. Conclusion.

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 324

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A study conducted by the Small Business Association determined that venture firms that invested in women-led businesses had more positive performances than firms that did not. While having a social connection to a VC also helped men seeking funding, the positive benefits for the women were significantly higher.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Recently, our team interviewed 40 founders and venture capitalists and conducted two experiments to uncover whether startups, compared to more mature firms, are more likely to be the victims of fraud. Such hiring decisions lead to positive legitimacy spillovers from the new hire to the startup. But how best to do this?

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Venture Capitalist Maturity Participative Sample 10

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. Accelerators have a positive impact on regional entrepreneurial ecosystems, particularly with regard to the financing environment.

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Venture Capitalist Incubator Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With a well-developed business plan, entrepreneurs are also much more likely to attract angel investors or secure funding from venture capitalists. Being able to read the accounts and understand the cash position in a business is vital. A business plan sets out the financial and operational objectives. Overestimating revenue.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Banking Credit Scoring 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Schumpeter himself posited that creative destruction, which he called “the essential fact about capitalism,” would lead to capitalism’s demise because of a backlash against the chaos it unleashes.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 22, 2008

On a lighter note, Venture Capitalists, please avoid reading this excerpt Excerpts from the first chapter… When I first discovered that my nickname among some members of staff at Virgin was “Dr. Darren on Why MANY smart people think they deserve a better position at work? Yes,&# I was amused.

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Venture Capitalist Licensing Entrepreneur Newsletter 28

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s tempting to think that venture capitalists are taking punts on particular technologies in the hope that the few investments that reach the big time adequately compensate for the many that wither on the vine. Supporting innovation.

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Efficiency Innovation Venture Capitalist Hedge 126

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

But when I hit the road in 2008 raising capital for our fairly design-centric venture, The Grommet, I noticed that no investor ever remarked on my industrial design credentials. Given the strong, positive response after my presentation, it’s clear that there’s a there-there,” he wrote.

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Kleiner Venture Capitalist Industry Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Research by Harvard Business School senior lecturer Shikhar Ghosh, in fact, has found that fully 75% of venture capital-backed startups — presumably the crème de la crème of the startup world — failed to return the capital invested in them to their investors (let alone generate positive returns).

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

For instance, I have 12 years of working with entrepreneurs as an early-stage venture capitalist; 19 years working for a large corporation (Bell Labs & AT&T) and consulting to their multi-national, multi-billion dollar customers; 10 years of mentoring entrepreneurs; and created a carve-out start-up within AT&T.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mentor Education 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit. Entrepreneurship is a deviation, an occupation for heroes, heroic for the reasons it can't be recommended: it's just too unsafe.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.

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Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

To kick us off, Bain partner and a trustee of the UK-based Social Business Trust, Alan Hirzel posits that social enterprises can't have broad impact unless they play by the same rules as profit-seeking businesses.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Business Model Human Needs 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2021

If you are in a great place regarding you finances, you could be in the position to ask for large loans or even negotiate with a mortgage lending company for the money you need. However, this carries a lot of risk for you. If your business can’t recoup the money in time, you may be deep in the red personally.

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Finance Venture Capitalist Franchising Proposal 91