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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

You establish your goal (where you want to go) and your position (where you are now), and then develop your strategy (how to get from your position to your goal in the most efficient and effective way). Phase 2: Establish Your Position & Goal At CO2 Coaching, we use GPSing (Goal, Position, Strategy) to guide decision-making.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Large pools of capital have been funding risky ventures since antiquity (for example, when the wealthy Marcus Crassus backed an upstart Roman general named Julius Caesar). He was right.

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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

Technology and innovation ideas can also be found at niche forums focused on the future within industries and at venture capital conferences. CIOs should mingle with vendors, customers, users, technologists, regulators, venture capitalists, and academics. Better still, they should do this while overseas.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. ” Many of them are in China, but there are also hedge funds and bitcoin investment funds who hold massive amounts of bitcoin. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Parting Ways with Public Trading

Harvard Business Review

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational. Leadership development specialists charged with developing leaders can focus less on personal characteristics of leaders and more how investors might view them.