Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. 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. Wait to connect with partners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Unfortunately, mismatched goals between investors and entrepreneurs as well as a potential cultural bias may both prove to limit the positive effect that accelerators have in emerging market contexts. Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Venture funds create a basic thesis about what industries will grow, and then they place a lot of inexpensive bets and give start-ups leeway.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1 Rather, Groupon felt the need to include a metric of profitability, no matter how contrived, that was actually positive. The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Taking this strategy a step further, the company established Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), a venture fund based in San Francisco that looks for other inventive, environmentally sustainable ways to improve crop yield. Any product that requires some expertise to use is a candidate for analytics innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Hospitals are in a challenging position. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. So, the market is heading back to the future. Large employers and the government are looking for the same thing. .” ” They may be frogs in a boiling pot.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation. On average, a dollar of venture capital appears to be three to four times more potent in stimulating patenting than a dollar of traditional corporate R&D.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may compete with their own. Also, make sure there is no misalignment of priorities between your organizations, which can negate all the positives.

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Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. However, cash flow from operations had shifted from positive to negative, the company’s cash pile was dwindling, and the new product would demand R&D investment. The chill winds of the Great Recession were blowing through Silicon Valley, too.)

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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

But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development. Omniture has been acquired by Adobe, and was venture-funded by Silicon Valley firms such as Hummer Winblad.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

But with that in mind, you can look for the problems you’re better positioned to solve because of — not in spite of — your location. You’ll not only find customers and employees more easily, you’ll likely find funding as well. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. This tells us that the gender gap is even more pronounced in venture-funded start-ups than in corporate America. The Pay Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Today Emily and Heather are working together to put the company in the best position for possible venture funding. . “I understand our application architecture at a high level and I can communicate to my CTO what I need done, but how it gets done is up to her,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In witnessing and being a part of an incredibly vibrant startup culture, from a 15-person early stage startup 2 years ago with no venture funding to our now 100+ person company, I know the real elements of company culture aren''t reflected in the traditional definition nor the top-down approach to culture decks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

.); differ­ent risk cate­go­ries (incremental improvements versus speculative ventures); and differ­ent time horizons. Once you’ve established the metrics and a baseline, you’re in a position to set specific, unit-by-unit innovation goals, and to fine-tune the innovation engine.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. But after rising to the top, Whitney felt the need to build and create something more meaningful. She walked away from a 7-figure salary and prestige. BIF-7 Story & Video ).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

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