Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

If the limiting factor for the startup economy is capital, you’d expect newly founded venture funds to generate solid returns. In theory, more financing should mean better terms for startups, though it’s not clear that that’s how it always works in practice. And there are two cases to be made for crowdfunding.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Entrepreneurs are uniquely positioned to provide innovative solutions to urgent challenges that require concentrated, collaborative effort. But to scale these solutions, founders need more than just capital — they need strong, effective support from their investors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Maybe it’s learning that your co-founder is prepared to work with the wrong venture fund or that they’re actively willing to hide bad results from your board. Finances make people twitchy – and are another source of conflict. It’s easy – too easy!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

Research involving numerous accelerator programs and interviews with various stakeholders reveals that startups in these programs typically achieve higher funding and survival rates. What role do business accelerators play in boosting the growth of early-stage companies? And they work.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. Through the venture capital community, veteran corporate leaders like John Scully, Steve Case, and Gerald Levin are contributing capital and deep business expertise to numerous health-related start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

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. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. ” They may be frogs in a boiling pot.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

That spring Rithmio won the COZAD New Venture Competition , and on the strength of that was able to secure $650,000 in angel financing. Later it received an additional $3 million in seed funding from blue-chip investors such as Intel Capital and KGC. Each insight led to a better product. The Future of I-Corps.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Not only do they enjoy less competition for talent, they also enjoy less competition for funding. The company has 10,000 customers for their helpdesk software-as-a-service product, and thus far, $6 million in financing. Omniture has been acquired by Adobe, and was venture-funded by Silicon Valley firms such as Hummer Winblad.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Where accelerators fall short is in leading investment rounds deep into the company's lifecycle, the purview of traditional venture funds. Accelerators with a handful of full-time employees and no limited partners will accept dozens of companies each year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

Many companies go about investor relations all wrong, pitching their companies and plans to whatever audience they can and hoping some shareholders will buy in. This approach wastes time and valuable resources building relationships with the wrong shareholders who do not bring the right competencies, connections, and commitment to a business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. You’ll not only find customers and employees more easily, you’ll likely find funding as well. For DC’s cybersecurity entrepreneurs, venture funds like In-Q-Tel & CORE Capital have emerged to fund such endeavors. The list goes on and on.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2022

How to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

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

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2022

The more rivals you outbid, the more likely you are to have paid too much.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

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. For every 10 investments, a good firm may have one defining investment, returning hundreds of percent in IRR.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The improved odds of success in drug discovery are providing new opportunities for donors to back what has become known as venture philanthropy. In this approach, drug discovery is developed around a specific disease and is financed by the efforts of a disease-focused foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

They represent content and digital rights management platforms (such as SingularDTV ), distributed venture funds (such as the the DAO , for decentralized autonomous organization), and even new platforms to make investing in ICOs and managing digital assets easy (such as ICONOMI ). ” Others are sure to follow suit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

So an innovation that changes the cost of experiments changes the landscape for venture funding. Both Rhodes-Kropf and Ewens are advisors to and have a financial interest in Correlation Ventures.). On average, initial funding fell 20% relative to unaffected sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

We need to also teach them to grow by applying the same kinds of methodology and discipline that, traditionally, a venture-funded company may use. The reality is that over 99% of entrepreneurs who go out to seek financing get rejected. Financing is optional. There are two primary reasons behind this phenomenon.

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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. billion).

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