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- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
initially. Through her relationship with Austin, Rachel connected with Alex Iskold, Coach and VC in Resident at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures [formerly Managing Partner of...
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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
benefits than possession of power. However, status puts greater constraints on mobility than power does, as it is harder for a high-status actor than for a high-power actor to acquire the high-power, high-status position. Empirical test in the American View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
more patents, and have more citations to their patents. Our results suggest that VCs invest in riskier and more innovative startups in hot markets (rather than just worse firms). This is true even for the most experienced VCs....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
more to develop an error-free quantum computer by 2029. In addition, venture capital can be difficult to secure, in part because many VCs lack the technical expertise to properly vet the startup. “The groups that can diligence what we’re...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
hand and exposing areas that will never be competitive on the other. The pool of capital may be more limited. But I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. The VC industry went through a phase where it expanded enormously in capital and attracted...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
the analogy of the force field that used to protect Jurassic Park. It goes down, and the raptors run loose. You're the raptors, and I'm a raptor trainer. The VCs are a bunch of raptor feeders out there, and they're attacking all the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
do this alone.” (courtesy Flashpoint) “I don’t think we’ve really fully solved how that relationship plays out between the federal government and the private sector. It’s very much a work in progress.” —Josh Lefkowitz (MBA 2008) Longtime tech View Details
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
says, noting that power posing can be used before any potentially stressful situation, such as a salary negotiation or, if you’re an entrepreneur, a VC pitch meeting. So go ahead, strike a pose. A two-minute investment could have a...
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- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
questions about the future of dispersed ownership and the separation between management and ownership,” says Viceira. “The way we answer these questions may literally determine the future of capitalism.” Related Reading: Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal...
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- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
a company. There’s this myth that if you want to go start a company, you just pitch on your HBS credentials and walk into a VC office and walk out with a huge check. That’s 1,000 percent not the case. Sierra and I have built this company...
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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
classes, beauty products, and eSports offerings. Chairman Lee and VC Lee believe that KCON is a good vehicle for accelerating the Hallyu wave of Korean culture that was still sweeping the globe and riding this wave in promoting CJ Group...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Fire Unprofitable Customers? Willy C. Shih and Halle Alicia TeccoHarvard Business School Case 610-077 Pandora Radio is at a crossroads. Founder Tim Westergren has just been told by a well known VC to get rid of his unprofitable customers...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
civil rights. Not only would nobody buy that product, it’s horrible publicity for everyone involved—from those who funded it, from the VCs funding these, to those who are developing them and then to the companies using them, and then,...
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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence of a “spray and pray" investment approach—where investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
funding from a Series A round. She needed to build up sales and marketing; she also wanted to invest in her product, which was already popular in the VC market but was increasingly gaining traction in other markets. Sales and marketing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
to get good feedback that would help us understand how VCs would be looking at our business model," adds Weng. (Battery Ventures and a few private investors bought into FashionStake's vision early on.) FashionStake and other consumer...
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- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
process, she brought her boyfriend and his sister into the business to help her, and ended up learning important lessons about mixing family and business. Now looking to raise venture capital, Thiers has just received an email from a general partner at a top View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
exploration of our thesis in the formation of syndicate relations between venture capital firms, we find that the likelihood that bridging ties form between VCs increases with several attributes of the target company investment 'setting':...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
forcing mechanism for us,” Gulati says. “Without the discipline of deadlines and deliverables we might have flamed out at the first hurdle.” “For us, the main goal wasn’t to make it to the finals or win, it was to get good feedback that would help us understand how...
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- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
want to do. That model is the basis for many use cases. Is my policy in compliance? What’s the pathway from here to there? Is it protected, is it encrypted, whatever it is? And then the measurement. This is something we innovated a couple years ago. I was a View Details