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- 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
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
get behind their ideas, going through fertility treatments while launching a company, managing investor expectations, prioritizing mental health, setting benchmarks, hiring to fill experience gaps, and even returning VC funding. “It takes... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
groups that don’t fit the VC mold. There is no magic set of experiences that makes you a great venture capitalist. I filed a gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins because I had tried everything else. It seemed like a lawsuit... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
finance and accounting, but they are happy I don’t know what I’m going to do yet, that I have the luxury of choice. I can’t thank the School enough.” Wu has participated in HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship program and this past summer worked for a small View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
have become so great that governments can’t cope with them anymore.” We are at a turning point, Cohen notes, the likes of which we have seen before. In 1972, when Cohen cofounded Apax Partners, one of Europe’s first VC firms, the business... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
Already, the founders say, Vostu is turning a profit, though it is holding onto recently raised VC cash while it solidifies its position in the market. Suddenly, the slow-to-start Vostu is on the fast track. Kafie, who went straight to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
capitalist. Kane: The VC has to be a good listener. Entrepreneurs are egocentric, type A personalities; they will express themselves but need to think things through. A good VC will be both a sounding board... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
the VC world, sitting on the other side of the table, that she realized the extent of the funding problem that female founders were facing. It was bizarre, Dodi thought. She knew that a diversity of views meant a higher return on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Doriot Papers Arrive at HBS
pioneering work in the field of venture capital through records from the American Research and Development Corporation, the world’s first publicly funded VC firm that he led for a number of years. View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Named Top School for Producing Entrepreneurs
Sarah Leary (MBA 1998) Sarah Leary (MBA 1998) Poets & Quants recently reported on PitchBook’s annual ranking of MBA programs that have “produced the most entrepreneurs, the most companies, the most female founders, and more—including, of course, the most View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
L. John Doerr (MBA '76) is widely recognized as one of the country's preeminent venture capitalists. A partner in the California VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB), he is known for backing startups that presaged entire... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
you’ll be missing a skill set. RU: One key issue for retail startups—specifically in fashion and beauty—is raising capital, because VCs tend to be male and often have little exposure to female-focused industries. How can a fashion or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik led the formation of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, an informal group that attracted a committed corps of like-minded students. They gathered weekly to discuss start-up ideas and seek advice from local VCs and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
delicate corner of the medical world. Although the couple were happily employed—Deborah at a startup, Jake at VC firm Sequoia Capital—the Andersons realized they were that someone. Both left their jobs in 2014 and used personal savings to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
they worked so hard to bake. If the company becomes the next Facebook, says Professor Josh Lerner, that’s all well and good. If not, “you might be better off with 100 percent of the smaller pie.” In addition, says Lerner, the standard VC... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
number of HBS alumnae founders runs around 25 percent, which is somewhere between VC industry norms and the current HBS class composition of about 46 percent women. There’s more we can do, but we have fantastic role models who have had a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie