Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

For some, the key to survival was calling up venture capitalists like Mark Stevens for a quick influx of cash, but not everyone was able to receive funding assistance. Since you can’t always depend on a financing source to help you out when times get tough, you need to boost your marketing plan and develop loyalty among your customers.

Tips 80

Tips Marketing Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 80

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

A business plan sets out the financial and operational objectives. With a well-developed business plan, entrepreneurs are also much more likely to attract angel investors or secure funding from venture capitalists. It’s the fundamental starting point for testing whether or not a business idea is feasible.”.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Banking Credit Scoring 12

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The data showed that trademarks often helped obtain better terms when raising finance, and were generally a good predictor of future success, both as a private firm and later on when they go public.

IPO 40

IPO Venture Capitalist Finance Advertising 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

opened in 1959 and is still operating. Over 99% of companies should operate as organically grown, self-sustaining businesses — bootstrapped, without external financing. For them the goal is to achieve customer validation, not financing. Nor do they have the deal flow deserving of such guaranteed financing.

Incubator 21

Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 21

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. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

Energy 14

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. Our results reveal striking differences between venture capitalists’ gender-stereotypical beliefs and actual performance of these ventures.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Just as venture capitalists are taking a hard look at this new phenomenon, so should we all.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

IPO 14

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

If the public sector is to realize the full potential of digital technology to transform public finances and even kickstart national economic growth, governments will have to move beyond streamlining services and cutting red-tape for entrepreneurs. Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, once said that software is eating the world.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed. Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

I first had them meet with an Israeli army signal corps general (who was in the midst of overseeing a military operation); then we headed to a beach to engage in team building and camouflage exercises with young Israelis preparing for elite military combat units. Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

As one of the world’s most accomplished venture capitalists adopts a new role at his company, it might be time to adopt some of his insights at your company. You don’t have to be in a cutting-edge business to build a company based on John Doerr’s insights.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Kleiner Venture Capitalist Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Moreover, they operated on a scale that is unthinkable in a business climate that prizes “nimbleness”: in 1960, GM had 500,000 employees on its payroll. A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources. Strategy” led “structure,” as historian Alfred D. Chandler (who researched Sloan’s book) put it.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. —are making substantial investments in AI as well.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz kicks off an inspired post on scaling by quoting the rapper Dorrough, who tells anyone with “a dollar in your pocket, a twenty in your wallet” to focus on one thing: “Get big. The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming CEO Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Wait a while. If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. Sell stock in the company. There are those who find Icahn’s approach simply child ish.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. “At the time, moving close to the market was not a given, and venture capitalists did not have a clear playbook. Israel’s early embrace of tech and VC continues to pay off.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. They strive not only to make money, but make a tangible difference to society.

Innovation 84

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 84

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

As a result, first time entrepreneurs frequently feel that they have been taken to the cleaners by venture capitalists. This exemplifies the famous golden rule of venture capital: "Whoever has the gold sets the rules." One of them claims, for example, to screen ventures using the "same criteria as venture capitalists."

Due Diligence 16

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Rather than relying on venture capitalists and marketers to try to project nascent demand for new innovations, creators can directly reach out to customers and communities to refine ideas and gauge interest.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8