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  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2018
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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 Dec 2022
  • News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

selection is potentially the most critical question a founder can answer during the scaling stage of a startup. As is well understood by VCs (but less so by founders!), small companies rarely do more than one thing well; efforts to hedge... View Details
Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2014
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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
Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services
  • 01 Oct 2001
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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
Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

movement surged in the last year, 75% of VCs now believe they can invest in founders of color and have outsized returns.” With 11 companies in their latest cohort, Harris and Vilma shared their insights on how they choose entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 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
Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 29 Jun 2019
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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
  • 01 Dec 2017
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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
  • 13 Jan 2021
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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
  • 12 Jan 2015
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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
Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

searching for new leads. In 2008, Benjy came across an article on halofuginone (HT-100), a drug compound derived from an ancient Chinese herb that had shown promising results in treating muscular dystrophy in mice. They tracked it down to an Israeli biotech but hit a... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2008
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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
Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 23 May 2019
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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 Jun 1997
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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
  • 12 Nov 2019
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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
  • 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

taking an important conference call," she recalls with a smile. Piette left VC when Zach was two and a half, after trying unsuccessfully to have a second child. "Your fertility plummets after age 35, and it is a horrible problem," she... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2017
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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
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act

markets and the pricing of carbon becomes enormously important. DM: Matheson has seen this play out before. From 2006 to 2011, VC firms invested more than $25 billion in clean energy companies and ultimately lost more than half of it. The... View Details
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