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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Not Mercenaries

Harvard Business Review

The big news in the venture capital world is that John Doerr, legendary partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is moving into a new role as the firm’s first chair, where he’ll be what he describes as a “player coach” to support the firm’s next generation of leaders.

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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow. Thus, digital entrepreneurs choose their financiers not only for their contributed capital but also for their partnership value and exit options they create for the company.

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GE's Eco-Innovation Platform

Harvard Business Review

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". GE needs entrepreneurs: Challenging assumptions. Entrepreneurs are put on this Earth to challenge assumptions.

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The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns

Harvard Business Review

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.