Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2013
Say, toward venture capitalists pouring money into the next photo sharing app. First of all, venture capitalists tend to focus in a few places, in a few sectors. I think venture capitalists do play a role. And the American entrepreneurial economy is much broader than that.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2011
Last year, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in China, we spoke with one of the country's most celebrated scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists. Most technology ventures in China are of the C2C variety, i.e., Copy-To-China.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2013
Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. It is not by accident that the National Institutes of Health spends $31 billion a year on supporting innovation in biotechnology and pharmacology. It also received its early stage finance from the U.S.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway musical industry and biotechnology. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Start a LinkedIn or Facebook group. Be the connector for this group of people. Learn more about how she uses social media.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. Their behavior displays promising parallels to the early days of the biotechnology industry.
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. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).
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