Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies. Since his fund's investment, a series of very well publicized auctions on secondary markets have driven Facebook's private market valuation to over 85B. They invest millions in the hopes of achieving billions in returns.

IPO 18

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 18

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% Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market.

Venture Funding 10

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 9

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 8, 2023

A conversation with Kapor Capital’s founders on what drives them and their investment choices.

Venture Funding 19

Venture Funding Finance Diversity Technology 19

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2020

It looks at everything from the legal infrastructure, the ease of creating a business, the quality of academia and availability of finance. “Corporate venturing is becoming a dominant trend among companies. European countries traditionally dominate, due in large part to the excellence of their academic research.

Venture Funding 97

Venture Funding GDP Incentives Finance 97

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Both now lead with the same processors, but Dell offers custom system configuration at ship, while HP capitalizes on more impressive display and battery technology. They may have the finances you need and are ready to invest in a business area they know. Upsell related products after the initial sale.

Travel 17

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Think about it: If our military can create a highly complex surgical theater anywhere in the world within hours, it’s not a stretch to think the knowledge and technology exists to take care of elderly, sick people in their own homes. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014.

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 position.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A new generation of philanthropists, whose wealth was created via entrepreneurship in technology-driven fields, has the unique opportunity to make a real difference in speeding the pace of progress in the fight against cancer. Andrew Lo, a finance professor at MIT, has been a trailblazer in this area. Luxy Images/Getty Images.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Venture Funding Finance Development 8