Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. To do that, you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. Why does it need to be a small market?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This candid admission comes from Beth Comstock, GE's Chief Marketing Officer. Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs need GE: Crossing the "Valley of death".

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Innovation Kleiner Entrepreneur Brand 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Most great businesspeople I've met would correctly advise an entrepreneur to avoid raising money if possible. If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. When you are ready to raise money, scratch Sequoia, Kleiner, and maybe one or two other top dogs off your preview list.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company. So Page and Brin are different from such legendary venture capitalists as John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowtitz, the two founders of Andreessen Horowitz.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most dangerous period for entrepreneurs is not when they start up from scratch but when they scale up for growth. Many entrepreneurs who are propelled into a sudden growth trajectory think mostly about raising risk-sharing equity investment from venture capitals or private “angels.” Pay on time.

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Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. And so all ears were tuned in when well-known VC Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins started talking… but Ted denied there was a problem. By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation.

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