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. They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Venture capital and private equity firms tend to congregate in certain areas—notably Silicon Valley, New England and New York. Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. About the Author.

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Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. The second era requires larger scale in technology and deeper R&D expertise.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. Big bets don’t make it through the every-idea-has-to-be-a-winner screen because it’s very hard to create reliable, detailed financial projections for the types of uncertain ideas that have the promise of big returns.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. The glamorous projects inevitably get the bulk of the funding, while more experimental, more complex, and more pedestrian projects lose out.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. The glamorous projects inevitably get the bulk of the funding, while more experimental, more complex, and more pedestrian projects lose out.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. Some time shortly after the recession, venture capitalists decided clean tech wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and started making bets elsewhere — mostly in internet start-ups.

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Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? One area of focus: how technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality will be able help consumers visualize the end result of their home improvement projects.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

That is the problem: crowdfunding will at best be good only for the entrepreneurs and middlemen, paid for by unwitting consumers who simply cannot know enough about the highly risky ventures or the highly complex venture investing process to make informed investment decisions. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The average amount of capital raised by a Blockchain project through an ICO in 2017 was $13 million; through the third quarter of 2018 it was $25 million. Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., This has proven to be a challenging domain to automate and most of the projects are behind schedule. The Growing Use of AI.

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Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations.

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects , with pledges coming from over 5,000,000 individual backers. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has helped fledgling projects raise nearly $1 billion in donations. The crowdfunding service Kickstarter reached an important milestone last week.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. The latter are the ones funding the capital-intensive and highest-risk projects.

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Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Facebook Inc., Facebook Inc.,

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Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

When new ventures are intermingled with the main business, projects usually end up fixing problems in the current business instead of finding new paths to growth. For these ventures to have a better chance at success they need room to take risks and try something different.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. stage to the next.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. EDENS wanted to play a role in making DC more inclusive, while also creating meaningful investment value, reimagining the project as an economic ecosystem rather than a collection of brick-and-mortar buildings.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Alternative energy technologies have become big business. With the world's population projected to swell to 9 billion by 2050, it is apparent that companies and countries must figure out how to provide a high quality of life to many more people using drastically less "stuff.". trillion by 2020.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The new guys are frequently trying new things that we need to know about.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold.

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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Even gridlock in Washington has not stopped the economy from progressing. Increase your R&D spending.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Venture capitalists are close behind. They were not shy about making specific proposals and asking for investments from the private sector, but more as a way to concretize the projects' feasibilities than to push particular programs. What are we learning about what cities can do to foster entrepreneurship and innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

When we''re trying to implement a new idea, explore a dream, or disrupt ourselves , we often have to bridge a language gap: for example, the seemingly impenetrable dialect of technology, or the specialized lingo associated with a particular profession, jargon of venture capitalists, or even the patois of a different team within your firm.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz kicks off an inspired post on scaling by quoting the rapper Dorrough, who tells anyone with “a dollar in your pocket, a twenty in your wallet” to focus on one thing: “Get big. But once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products. Pro: Breakthrough technology can offer customers things they didn’t even know they needed. Engineering Drives Product: More technically-oriented product companies (e.g.,

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Triple the U.S. population by three.

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Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

“The fact that technology has made it easier to interact with people across great distances and time zones actually makes face-to-face interaction even more valuable.” “If she’s a tech entrepreneur, tell her that you’re also inviting venture capitalists,” for example. Listen more; talk less.

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Conference How To Venture Capitalist Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. But he was now a postdoc working on a desalination project that he believed could solve South Florida’s water problems.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Insight Center.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

In venture capital-financed, high-growth technology startups, only 9% of entrepreneurs are women. They suggest that’s why female entrepreneurs have trouble securing financing from venture capitalists. Those VCs are either better at selecting women-led projects, or better at advising them, or both.

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Venture Capitalist Finance Succession IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For example, Point Nine Capital uses a linear model to sort potential startup opportunities based on variables representing the quality of the team and the technology. As mentioned, many venture capitalists use weighted attribute models to sift through the thousands of pitches that land at their doors. Here’s one example.

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Construction Venture Capitalist Price Guidelines 12