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Unfortunately, only 3-5% of women-owned businesses receive venture capital (95% goes to male-owned businesses), and only 10% of venture-funded startups are women-owned. In fact, female entrepreneurs start with about one-eighth the funding of male-owned ventures. MORE
And companies in Accra include venture fund Oasis Capital and agricultural private equity house Injaro Investments. This is the first of several commentaries on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August August 2011 HBR. MORE
As part of our work with the Harvard Business School-Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator , funded by a $20 million gift from the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, we have been studying these approaches. UBS’s role was to market the fund to its private wealth clientele. MORE
That spring Rithmio won the COZAD New Venture Competition , and on the strength of that was able to secure $650,000 in angel financing. Later it received an additional $3 million in seed funding from blue-chip investors such as Intel Capital and KGC. According to VentureWell, as of May 2016 the program has trained over 700 teams, which have raised more than $80 million from venture funding, government grants, and other sources. Cat Yu for HBR. MORE
But this is not nearly frequent enough for Deere and companies facing fierce competition for rare technical talent from venture-funded startups and big software and services competitors like Amazon and Google. MORE
To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded. MORE
The Founder Project is a new type of venture fund run by students investing in students'' startups to create a global student startup ecosystem. Education Entrepreneurship Funding Innovation Startups Venture Capital Venture capital MORE
If the limiting factor for the startup economy is capital, you’d expect newly founded venture funds to generate solid returns. In fact, venture capital hasn’t performed well compared to other asset classes, with the big wins clustered among the top dozen or so firms. MORE
This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. MORE
I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding. These are head-spinning times for those of us who think about the best ways to lead and the most effective ways to compete. What defines acceptable personal behavior (let alone behavior worth emulating) among public officials? MORE
In 2010, Chandra started a for-profit venture, Forus Health , which launched the world’s first low-cost fundus camera , 3nethra, that screens anterior (cornea) and posterior (retina) segments of the eye for four major conditions (cataracts, diabetic retina, glaucoma, and cornea issues). Raising funds for poor patients was his immediate response. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. MORE
It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. It offers mentoring, development support, and funding customized to each project’s needs. There is no clear strategy for building new ventures inside the highly regulated, health care environment, and launching new technologies in health care takes a long time. MORE
While entrepreneurs are grasping for venture capital, the nation's leading firms seem puzzled about how to spend their money. 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. What could happen if these companies embraced the venture capitalist playbook? MORE
How has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? Venture capitalists essentially invest in startup ‘experiments’, and subsequently provide more funding to the experiments that work, so that they can run more experiments. MORE
More than two generations ago, the venture capital community — VCs, business angels, incubators, and others — convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. But the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital. The business had been funded and grown entirely by its customers’ cash. Entrepreneurship Venture capital MORE
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. Marcus Winther/Getty Images. From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. MORE
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. MORE
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. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. It’s just not in the mainstream media. MORE
In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.” Remember when IBM’s “Watson” computer competed on the TV game show “Jeopardy” and won ? Most people probably thought “Wow, that’s cool,” or perhaps were briefly reminded of the legend of John Henry and the ongoing contest between man and machine. MORE
But raising venture capital is sometimes a great idea. If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. The notes below are practical working tips on how to go about navigating venture capitalist conversations. MORE
Klout did find other things that I feel I do have knowledge on like social media, venture capital, entrepreneurship etc. I contributed a chapter on Venture Funding in an eBook. When I first heard about Klout I naturally assumed it was KKK speak for someone in the Klan with power. Or perhaps the Klan enforcer who clouts people. Klout is a scoring system that weighs influence in social media. MORE
For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo). MORE
Venture capital investment has reached levels not seen since the dotcom crash, and corporate money is playing a significant role. There’s a case to be made for corporate venture capital as a strategy, but research suggests that this is probably the exact wrong moment to be using it. MORE
Our IDEAS Ventures fund is a joint arrangement with the National Research Foundation as part of the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise. Government support is beneficial, but venture capitalist investor Mike Maples recently made a point in a conversation with TechCrunch that crystallized a nagging concern that I've had about Singapore: it's too hard for companies to fail. MORE
Wednesday night I attended a Cinemonde screening of "Something Ventured - Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists" (not to be confused by the autobiography on CM Woodhouse called Something Ventured ) It is a great documentary film. It told of the early days of Kliener Perkins and the funding of Steve Jobs - including interviews with some people who turned him down because he was "arrogant, hippy and smelled bad". MORE
Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images. MORE
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). The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). MORE
Big names like Ford and Sears are setting up data labs in the Bay Area and we have just witnessed the launch of Data Collective , a data-only venture fund set up by some of Silicon Valley's leading lights. In the closing decade of the twentieth century, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. showed the world that elephants can dance by turning around IBM, a mammoth if ever there was one. MORE
It really is essential reading for any would-be entrepreneur, because it really “lays it all out there&# – all the hurdles and “screens&# that one has to jump and pass through to conceive, plan, fund, staff, model, manage and execute (just to name a few) a new business. The “Secret&# of success is not just a great idea, a positive attitude, and venture funding. Carol Roth, author of "The Entrepreneur Equation" Carol Roth is a truth teller. MORE
Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons. Finally, reaching profitability quickly ensures that when outside financing dries up, the venture can succeed on its own. "Alright, you caught us. MORE
Our most recent report with data on over 2,000 ventures from 42 accelerator programs, shows that across country settings, accelerated ventures grow at significantly higher rates compared to ventures that applied but were not accepted into the accelerator program. We were also surprised to find that emerging market ventures are typically older than startups applying to accelerator programs in high-income countries, are earning more revenue, and have hired more employees. MORE
What do venture funding, employee reviews, project planning and vendor selection have in common? Let’s put it simply – they call for negotiation and persuasion. Most business meetings are not seen as a negotiation, but they still involve communication and bargaining. MORE
Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. MORE
Consequently, last year I founded TheFounderProject - a new type of venture fund run almost entirely by students that invests in student startups. We are now a team of 30 ‘ student venture capitalists ’ from all universities in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax. MORE
There is an enormous gender gap in venture capital funding in the United States. Female entrepreneurs receive only about 2% of all venture funding , despite owning 38% of the businesses in the country. The prevailing hope among academics, policy makers, and practitioners alike has been that this gap will narrow as more women become venture capitalists. However, homophily does not seem to be the only culprit behind the funding gap. MORE
To begin with Board Connect has just four non-profit launch partners – Teach for America, New Schools Venture Fund, Charter Board Partners and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation – but the hope is that this will quickly expand. Throughout the past few years, a regular issue in the management world has been how to ensure gender parity in the boardrooms of our biggest companies. MORE
Europe, on the other hand, led by Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, spends a higher proportion of its international development funds supporting entrepreneurial and pro-business projects in developing countries. Refugees pouring into Europe from Africa and the Middle East have arguably created the greatest crisis for the “European Experiment” since it began after World War II. MORE
In that, I talk about the advantages of being small (like the Canrock Ventures fund). I have been a niche player all of my life. I choose small markets and learn to be dominant in them. I prefer to be big in a small market. Working in a niche allows focus on specialties. MORE
Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. MORE
And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only antidote to margin-crushing competition, the only hope for out-performing a dismal economy, and the only way to truly amaze your customers. MORE
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. Amazon has put the funds and the management bench strength to lend credence to this ambition. MORE
Corporations have narrowed the focus of their R&D by pressing for clear, short-term wins; venture capitalists are too quick to get caught up in the latest, hottest thing; and even the vaunted crowdfunding option is pretty limited: It’s great if you’re an internet star, but try getting a crowd excited about an innovative idea in industrial machinery. But cutting back on research funding doesn’t work either. MORE
Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies'' walls, and internal idea contests. But cutting back on research funding doesn''t work either. Corporate venture capital can avoid some of these problems. MORE
From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. The venture industry is betting big on digital health, with $4–$5 billion invested annually. Laura Schneider for HBR. In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. MORE
Venture Funding Related Topics Lead Change Blog
APRIL 25, 2014
What do venture funding, employee reviews, project planning and vendor selection have in common? Let’s put it simply – they call for negotiation and persuasion. Most business meetings are not seen as a negotiation, but they still involve communication and bargaining.
Mills Scofield
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
The Founder Project is a new type of venture fund run by students investing in students'' startups to create a global student startup ecosystem. Education Entrepreneurship Funding Innovation Startups Venture Capital Venture capital
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CEO Blog
MAY 7, 2012
In that, I talk about the advantages of being small (like the Canrock Ventures fund). I have been a niche player all of my life. I choose small markets and learn to be dominant in them. I prefer to be big in a small market. Working in a niche allows focus on specialties.
CEO Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2011
Wednesday night I attended a Cinemonde screening of "Something Ventured - Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists" (not to be confused by the autobiography on CM Woodhouse called Something Ventured ) It is a great documentary film. It told of the early days of Kliener Perkins and the funding of Steve Jobs - including interviews with some people who turned him down because he was "arrogant, hippy and smelled bad".
Mills Scofield
JULY 8, 2013
Consequently, last year I founded TheFounderProject - a new type of venture fund run almost entirely by students that invests in student startups. We are now a team of 30 ‘ student venture capitalists ’ from all universities in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax.
CEO Blog
MAY 3, 2012
Klout did find other things that I feel I do have knowledge on like social media, venture capital, entrepreneurship etc. I contributed a chapter on Venture Funding in an eBook. When I first heard about Klout I naturally assumed it was KKK speak for someone in the Klan with power. Or perhaps the Klan enforcer who clouts people. Klout is a scoring system that weighs influence in social media.
Chartered Management Institute
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
To begin with Board Connect has just four non-profit launch partners – Teach for America, New Schools Venture Fund, Charter Board Partners and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation – but the hope is that this will quickly expand. Throughout the past few years, a regular issue in the management world has been how to ensure gender parity in the boardrooms of our biggest companies.
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Women on Business
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Unfortunately, only 3-5% of women-owned businesses receive venture capital (95% goes to male-owned businesses), and only 10% of venture-funded startups are women-owned. In fact, female entrepreneurs start with about one-eighth the funding of male-owned ventures.
Harvard Business
JUNE 27, 2017
There is an enormous gender gap in venture capital funding in the United States. Female entrepreneurs receive only about 2% of all venture funding , despite owning 38% of the businesses in the country. The prevailing hope among academics, policy makers, and practitioners alike has been that this gap will narrow as more women become venture capitalists. However, homophily does not seem to be the only culprit behind the funding gap.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Our most recent report with data on over 2,000 ventures from 42 accelerator programs, shows that across country settings, accelerated ventures grow at significantly higher rates compared to ventures that applied but were not accepted into the accelerator program. We were also surprised to find that emerging market ventures are typically older than startups applying to accelerator programs in high-income countries, are earning more revenue, and have hired more employees.
Harvard Business
APRIL 5, 2018
Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2018
How has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? Venture capitalists essentially invest in startup ‘experiments’, and subsequently provide more funding to the experiments that work, so that they can run more experiments.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 12, 2018
As part of our work with the Harvard Business School-Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator , funded by a $20 million gift from the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, we have been studying these approaches. UBS’s role was to market the fund to its private wealth clientele.
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 12, 2017
I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding. These are head-spinning times for those of us who think about the best ways to lead and the most effective ways to compete. What defines acceptable personal behavior (let alone behavior worth emulating) among public officials?
Harvard Business
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. Marcus Winther/Getty Images. From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics.
Harvard Business
MAY 16, 2016
If the limiting factor for the startup economy is capital, you’d expect newly founded venture funds to generate solid returns. In fact, venture capital hasn’t performed well compared to other asset classes, with the big wins clustered among the top dozen or so firms.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 5, 2017
This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents.
Harvard Business
MAY 24, 2016
But this is not nearly frequent enough for Deere and companies facing fierce competition for rare technical talent from venture-funded startups and big software and services competitors like Amazon and Google.
Harvard Business
APRIL 19, 2016
To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Europe, on the other hand, led by Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, spends a higher proportion of its international development funds supporting entrepreneurial and pro-business projects in developing countries. Refugees pouring into Europe from Africa and the Middle East have arguably created the greatest crisis for the “European Experiment” since it began after World War II.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies'' walls, and internal idea contests. But cutting back on research funding doesn''t work either. Corporate venture capital can avoid some of these problems.
Harvard Business
MARCH 7, 2017
That spring Rithmio won the COZAD New Venture Competition , and on the strength of that was able to secure $650,000 in angel financing. Later it received an additional $3 million in seed funding from blue-chip investors such as Intel Capital and KGC. According to VentureWell, as of May 2016 the program has trained over 700 teams, which have raised more than $80 million from venture funding, government grants, and other sources. Cat Yu for HBR.
Harvard Business
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. Amazon has put the funds and the management bench strength to lend credence to this ambition.
Harvard Business
MARCH 1, 2017
For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).
Harvard Business
JULY 9, 2018
In 2010, Chandra started a for-profit venture, Forus Health , which launched the world’s first low-cost fundus camera , 3nethra, that screens anterior (cornea) and posterior (retina) segments of the eye for four major conditions (cataracts, diabetic retina, glaucoma, and cornea issues). Raising funds for poor patients was his immediate response. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
But raising venture capital is sometimes a great idea. If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. The notes below are practical working tips on how to go about navigating venture capitalist conversations.
Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2017
It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. It offers mentoring, development support, and funding customized to each project’s needs. There is no clear strategy for building new ventures inside the highly regulated, health care environment, and launching new technologies in health care takes a long time.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Corporations have narrowed the focus of their R&D by pressing for clear, short-term wins; venture capitalists are too quick to get caught up in the latest, hottest thing; and even the vaunted crowdfunding option is pretty limited: It’s great if you’re an internet star, but try getting a crowd excited about an innovative idea in industrial machinery. But cutting back on research funding doesn’t work either.
Harvard Business
MAY 25, 2017
From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. The venture industry is betting big on digital health, with $4–$5 billion invested annually. Laura Schneider for HBR. In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S.
Harvard Business
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). The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 13, 2014
Venture capital investment has reached levels not seen since the dotcom crash, and corporate money is playing a significant role. There’s a case to be made for corporate venture capital as a strategy, but research suggests that this is probably the exact wrong moment to be using it.
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. I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. It’s just not in the mainstream media.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 10, 2011
While entrepreneurs are grasping for venture capital, the nation's leading firms seem puzzled about how to spend their money. 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. What could happen if these companies embraced the venture capitalist playbook?
Harvard Business Review
JULY 19, 2011
And companies in Accra include venture fund Oasis Capital and agricultural private equity house Injaro Investments. This is the first of several commentaries on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August August 2011 HBR.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 24, 2011
Our IDEAS Ventures fund is a joint arrangement with the National Research Foundation as part of the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise. Government support is beneficial, but venture capitalist investor Mike Maples recently made a point in a conversation with TechCrunch that crystallized a nagging concern that I've had about Singapore: it's too hard for companies to fail.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
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.
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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 22, 2014
In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.” Remember when IBM’s “Watson” computer competed on the TV game show “Jeopardy” and won ? Most people probably thought “Wow, that’s cool,” or perhaps were briefly reminded of the legend of John Henry and the ongoing contest between man and machine.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 4, 2014
More than two generations ago, the venture capital community — VCs, business angels, incubators, and others — convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. But the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital. The business had been funded and grown entirely by its customers’ cash. Entrepreneurship Venture capital
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 16, 2011
Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons. Finally, reaching profitability quickly ensures that when outside financing dries up, the venture can succeed on its own. "Alright, you caught us.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2012
Big names like Ford and Sears are setting up data labs in the Bay Area and we have just witnessed the launch of Data Collective , a data-only venture fund set up by some of Silicon Valley's leading lights. In the closing decade of the twentieth century, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. showed the world that elephants can dance by turning around IBM, a mammoth if ever there was one.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 17, 2012
And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only antidote to margin-crushing competition, the only hope for out-performing a dismal economy, and the only way to truly amaze your customers.
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