Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers. Whether Facebook IPOs for 80B or 100B, the venture funds that invested prior to 2011 will have plenty of capital to return to their limited partners. They invest millions in the hopes of achieving billions in returns.

IPO 19

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The business had been funded and grown entirely by its customers’ cash. In fact, venture capital financing may even be detrimental to your startup’s health. Worse, only 20 per cent of funds achieved 20 per cent returns (or better), a figure that they might be expected to deliver.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

While the managed care movement made a similar run in the early 1990s, the movement towards accountable care, bundled payments , and other population health efforts have not caused the type of backlash that managed care did ? According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9

Health Care 11

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

Managers tasked with investor relations often believe their role is to “sell” the business — or the strategy the company pursues — with the sole goal of retaining and attracting as many shareholders as possible. We have found this is best done with a five-step approach to strategic shareholder management.

How To 19

How To Audience Strategy Commitment 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. Though venture capital funds account for only about 0.2% As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation.

Venture Funding 11

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s not all about venture funding. See More Videos > See More Videos > Accelerators should take the time to understand and align with these entrepreneurs’ needs and recognize that not all startups require venture capital funding right away. Acknowledge implicit bias.

Marketing 10

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Not" is not a typo. have spread like wildfire.

Entrepreneur 11

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. This tells us that the gender gap is even more pronounced in venture-funded start-ups than in corporate America.

Leadership Pipeline 9

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

Christensen 22

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Business Model 22

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

They may have the finances you need and are ready to invest in a business area they know. For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may compete with their own.

Travel 17

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 17

Harvard Business Review

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. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 billion).

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8