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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
lessons that influenced much of the thinking in my career. The first came the day a highly respected venture capitalist visited class and talked about his endeavors. A classmate asked him if he had ever failed. "Yes," the VC replied, "but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
where innovation is winning the day. An increasing number of biotech start-ups are setting up shop in developing countries, and VC firms are chasing them. In Hyderabad, India, for example, Shantha Biotechnics created clever... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Rumennik (HBS ’12), a founding member with fellow first-years Jess Bloomgarden and Andrew Rosenthal of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, an ad hoc group with 150 members who meet weekly to brainstorm ideas, support one another, and pick the brains of local View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 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
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
insights with each other. Leading Professional Service Firms. This program is for senior managers of law firms, VC firms, hospitals, consultancies, and other service organizations. Participants will look at new ways to manage global... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
But certainly, I think, in thinking about the VC profile, I think even if you have a cool technology and you think it's going to change the world, I think you have to make a business case for it. But I think sometimes potentially... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms. "But a higher priority was my girlfriend, Ann, who had just dumped me." While his initial advances into the VC world were thwarted, the move paid off romantically when... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
group’s current challenge well from his own VC experience: “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator and really scale up,” he says. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
(AI) technology but a recent McKinsey survey of senior executives shows that financial services, utilities and media firms are now testing the AI waters. On the R&D side, CB Insights research shows that there have been over 3000 VC deals... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
itself around the politics of inclusion. Today, 44 percent of its companies have a female founder, more than three times the VC world’s share. Looking to the crowd liberates companies from having to navigate an oftennoxious power dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 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
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
pressing business challenges, such as managing creative employees, navigating the IPO process, and protecting intellectual property. Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur by Dermot Berkery (MBA ’91) (McGraw-Hill) This sourcebook explores the basics of... 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
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
says Rodríguez of IGNIA, which is Mexico’s biggest VC firm. Growing up in Mexico, Rodríguez and his brother were raised by their mother after their father left the country in 1972. He attended high school in the United States and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
behavior in the Justice Department’s crosshairs — deal sharing — is an important aspect of this competition that benefits us all. To understand the benefits of deal sharing, it is helpful to look at private equity’s older sibling, venture capital. 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
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
challenges in building the operation was that the lack of existing models simply made it hard to explain. “People had prototypes for foundations. And they had prototypes for VC funds. This was neither.” Now seven years after Lake Como—and... View Details