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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise. They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow. Digital startups often seek to grow quickly and so report large losses.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Not Mercenaries

Harvard Business Review

The big news in the venture capital world is that John Doerr, legendary partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is moving into a new role as the firm’s first chair, where he’ll be what he describes as a “player coach” to support the firm’s next generation of leaders.

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The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns

Harvard Business Review

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. And, an inventor who could reduce global dependency on oil by designing better batteries? Now that might sound a little extreme.