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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
occur, even when everyone in the room is a successful expert, and even when interactions are anonymous,” says Lakhani. The study also generalizes to other settings where experts deliberate, he adds, from VC partners and funding committees... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
to the needs of the state’s sustainable tech sector. “When I set up Aravaipa Ventures, I broke every law of what was done commonly by VCs at the time,” Fenwick-Smith says. The fund was focused narrowly both topically, on climate change,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
work she started in the summer by doing an independent study analyzing data that had been collected and conducting more in-depth interviews with founders. “The insights will be useful both to VCs and female business founders,” she says. View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
fundraising presentation and offering memorandum" - a process she likens to "a two-hour class in how to start a VC fund." While students on the HBS West Club's trip could choose to visit firms in three industries, the CMC Ventures Club... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
but his experience in a frontier market has revealed to him the pitfalls of the Silicon Valley scale-at-all-costs model. Haryopratomo: There are a lot of fundamental issues that can be solved without an inordinate amount of VC funding.... View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
100 jobs. Many of them, specifically in Senegal, have been able to raise funding both from the public sector and also from private investors, angel investors, and VC investors. “Now, when you look at the private sector on the continent,... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of raising money. Morrell: Without an influx of VC... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
initial venture fund of $60 million (at that point the largest private equity fund ever raised), the new firm began doing deals in a wide range of enterprises. But in the early 1980s, as the VC business became more and more competitive,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
industry leaders. From an inside analysis of today's hottest deals to what VCs look for in a business proposal, the collective wisdom of this elite group becomes an invaluable primer on what it takes to succeed in the high-stakes start-up... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the founder of the modern VC industry, but there’s been remarkably little written about him,” says Josh Lerner, a professor at HBS who specializes in the study of private equity. “He is the first person who basically ran an institutional... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
daughter of Indian immigrants, Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
previous environment. So if we see a steeper recovery, and it becomes difficult for VCs to raise new funds, that impact on startup funding won’t happen for a while. What I'm hearing from the VC community is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
natural grocery business. —Michael Tully (AMP 173, 2007) I suggest the partners go back to their growth strategy for product no. 1 and try to grow it beyond $1 million in revenue. There is no point in adding a second product until that happens. Also consider that any... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
opportunities are realized. Culture Shift delivers a way to work together beyond the confines of business structures, she says, to see what’s working and to brainstorm new ways, not only to approach inclusivity but also to better the VC... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon