Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Recently I was rereading Judy Robinett''s best-selling book, How to Be a Power Connector , which was named by Inc. I''ve known about incubators, angel investors and venture capitalists, but Judy mentions some sources that were new to me: family offices and crowd-funding. Books Business Judy Robinett Power Relationships'

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Venture Capitalist Incubator Magazine Class 40

Eric Jacobson

MAY 20, 2017

Creating a powerful and provocative story that causes customers or users to make a choice. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies. And an environment around that product that wins loyalty and gratitude for that product and your company.

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Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Creating a powerful and provocative story that causes customers or users to make a choice. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies. And an environment around that product that wins loyalty and gratitude for that product and your company.

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Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. In fact, we agreed that for-profit social businesses are a powerful way to increase impact. billion people who don’t have it today.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist B2C Entrepreneur 175

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 28, 2016

Creating a powerful and provocative story that causes customers or users to make a choice. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies. And an environment around that product that wins loyalty and gratitude for that product and your company.

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Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 24, 2014

Despite making a powerful initial impression, the entrepreneur lacked motivation and consistently missed important business commitments. He’d been a successful venture capitalist and invested in several incredibly profitable companies in the past. As we talked, he told me how livid he was with the owner of the company.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Learning-by-Doing Energy 152

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

An ageing population is certainly a factor, as is the growing market concentration that sees a growing amount of market power focused on a small number of incumbent firms that prevent startups from disrupting the market. So why is the entrepreneurial image more myth than reality? A number of factors probably lie beneath it. Hype run wild.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2019

Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Jerry Colonna, a professional coach and a former venture capitalist.

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Venture Capitalist Absenteeism Power Team 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2019

Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Jerry Colonna, a professional coach and a former venture capitalist.

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Venture Capitalist Absenteeism Power Team 8

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Aligning our reading (all information intake) with our stated values and goals is a topic I’d love to see put into some type of hour-long workshop (hint, hint). Thanks for bringing this topic up, it’s important!

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

The play’s enduring power comes from its straightforward telling of the human story — our aspirations and disappointments and how we deal with them. In my day job as a venture capitalist, I also look for stories I can connect to — in this case the human stories behind the entrepreneurs who are looking for investors.

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Power Venture Capitalist Self-aware Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Independent venture capital is a vital force in funding start-ups, but VCs tend to have a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. Recognition is a powerful reward too. It''s like that.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Independent venture capital is a vital force in funding start-ups, but VCs tend to have a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. Recognition is a powerful reward too. It’s like that.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Venture capitalists have significant pattern recognition skills related to both startup companies and specific markets. I remember distinctly a large company that proudly told me about how it got all of its most important executives to sit on an all-powerful innovation board that met every 90 days. A scarcity mentality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Just power through. When despondency threatens, leading venture capitalist Brad Feld follows a shared set of ground rules with his spouse , including cutting out screen time on weekends and spending one week a quarter off-grid together. They tell themselves it’s normal. This is the job.

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Creativity Venture Capitalist Arkes Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Apart from the website, the BMW Startup Garage team also stays in regular touch with leading venture capitalists and regularly appears at international conferences, as well as hosting their own startup events.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

After all, they have to forge business relations with potential customers, suppliers, and investors, all of whom are considerably more powerful and sophisticated than the startup.

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Venture Capitalist Maturity Participative Sample 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization. Before a team can reach its full potential, leaders must act in ways that transcend employees’ fears of organizational power. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

So, if impact investing is still within this early stage of experimentation and iteration, what lessons learned from the formation of the venture capital industry might we apply? Venture capitalists finance structured experiments — with relatively modest amounts of money and time — intended to produce valuable outcomes.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Core Competence Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization. Before a team can reach its full potential, leaders must act in ways that transcend employees’ fears of organizational power. It’s because they’ve been infected with a disease I call ‘failing elegantly.’

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization. Before a team can reach its full potential, leaders must act in ways that transcend employees’ fears of organizational power. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

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. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Venture Capitalist Licensing Entrepreneur Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Venture capitalists are often “pattern matching”, thus actively looking for someone who looks like the successful founders of Google, FaceBook, Amazon, or Apple. That VC might not even take the meeting. But bear with me.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Entrepreneur Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Such mining of digitized information has become more effective and powerful as more info is “tagged” and as analytics engines have gotten smarter. As Moore’s Law marches on, we have more power in our smartphones than the most powerful supercomputers did 30 or 40 years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A new wave of entrepreneurs have created innovations that address pressing human needs: a hand-powered solar lamp that reduces a family's dependence on dangerously flammable oil for adequate light; a network of neighborhood-based grocery stores that sell fresh produce; a low-cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies in developing countries.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Business Model Human Needs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I then clarified, "In my experience, men have more power than women.". Ergo, if a man with 500 people in his network, likely skewing male, only connects me with women he knows, then my power, or ability to get things done, is diminished," I explained. A male venture capitalist said, "You two have to meet."

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Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation CEO Open-book 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

” Once an idea is out there, customers can express their desire for it, one of the most powerful forces for overcoming organization inertia and resistance. In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Thus, the new behavior on social networks is to develop, as one venture capitalist quipped , "a precious journal of moments to look at in the future.". Psychologists have long understood the power of psychological hoarding. Said one Instagram addict about cataloging the highlights of her day, "I don't have a problem or anything.I

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Document Venture Capitalist Maslow Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

For managers and marketers alike, the power to calculate what customers might be worth is alluring. The problem is far more insidious than those articulated in venture capitalist Bill Gurley’s thoughtful CLV vivisection. Steven Moore for HBR. In fact, it subverts how customers truly become more valuable over time.

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Company Venture Capitalist Workshop Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, once said that software is eating the world. Once governments realize that digitalization does not automatically mean growth but can act as a powerful enabler, they can use disruptive principles to create new net growth. Technology is just one part of the story.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurs trying to make a business idea work will do anything within their power to buy extra time: run up bills on personal credit cards, take out home equity loans, or find consulting projects to cover a few more months of experimentation. There’s a belief that the sun will keep rising. Persistence. Private vs. Public.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But venture capitalists need to target a 10X return and gladly tolerate a higher chance of failure in exchange for a greater expected payoff. Second, research suggests that high-powered incentives can undermine performance in cognitively complex environments.

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