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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

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I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. To do that, you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. Why does it need to be a small market?

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GE's Eco-Innovation Platform

Harvard Business Review

This candid admission comes from Beth Comstock, GE's Chief Marketing Officer. GE and its venture capital (VC) partners such as Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital have invested $134 million (of $200 million allocated) in a small selection of these businesses. "We're looking for new models of innovation. Most definitely.

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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. The second era requires larger scale in technology and deeper R&D expertise.

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The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns

Harvard Business Review

Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. And so all ears were tuned in when well-known VC Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins started talking… but Ted denied there was a problem. By their collective choices, they are risking our very lives. But bear with me.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” Like most firms, my company weathered numerous market ups and downs. Many an entrepreneur has passed on the hors d’oeuvres, only to regret it later. Pay on time. I know this sounds counterintuitive.

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning.