Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Restructuring Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Neither hedge fund managers, nor venture capitalists, nor mutual fund managers came anywhere close to these results. This ultimately pushes their stock prices higher than their industry peers. The returns in our Design Value Index were 2.28 times the size of the S&P’s returns over the last 10 years.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. An influx of that scale would dwarf the approximately $78 billion invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2015.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. Wait a while. Why’s that?

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Equity investors (venture capitalists, private equity, portfolio managers, mutual/hedge fund managers) will use this index to complement existing financial and intangible analysis and gain a more thorough and rigorous understanding of firm’s full market value.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 Human advisors could also, like hedge fund managers, analyze the results from machine-advised decisions and advise clients on whether changes are necessary in the algorithms and logic employed by the machines. —are making substantial investments in AI as well.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Here are the steps she followed: Identify twenty to twenty-five key stakeholders you wish to stay connected to in a meaningful way. Assign these contacts into key categories: Most-senior clients. Most-senior people in your company.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Only 5% of venture capitalists, 12% of angel investors, and less than 3% of hedge fund managers are women. To wit, a study by Hedge Fund Research Inc. found that between 2000 and 2009, hedge funds managed by women produced almost twice the returns of those run by men.

Finance 11

Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 11

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Many leaders have been beaten over the head by financial owners like venture capitalists, equity funds, or hedge funds to believe that both the vision and all objectives should be financial. The organization’s financial numbers, however, are not inspiring to most employees or customers.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Not everyone agrees.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Finance Hedge Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8