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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
- 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 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 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 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... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
figures that IBM alone has probably invested billions so far, and Google has announced that it intends to spend billions more to develop an error-free quantum computer by 2029. In addition, venture capital can be difficult to secure, in part because many View Details
- 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
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
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
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
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
- 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 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
to friends and family to help them raise cash, and if they were really lucky, they would attract the interest of wealthy families such as the Rockefellers and the Whitneys. A mere handful of VCs were doing deals on the East and West... View Details
- 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
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
VC community, but it's starting. The more they see the vibrancy of people who are 50, 60, and older and starting new things and contributing their wisdom and talent and being more successful in some ways than the 20, 30-year-old that will... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
calls the yellow brick road of agtech capital. It will no doubt look different from the typical VC model, with more modest returns over a longer horizon. Maybe it’s debt capital. Maybe it’s a version of venture philanthropy, or at least... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
scientists, and engineers, Koehn says, the legal and financial expertise quickly follows. Soon, Sand Hill Road, which cuts through Palo Alto and Menlo Park, was lined with eager VC firms. Koehn: That's essential, because you can't make... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
or the newest startup in Silicon Valley, VC is not just a model of finance that has proven difficult to replicate in other countries. It is a state of mind exemplified by an appetite for risk-taking, a bold spirit of adventure, and an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
thinking,” Kang said to laughter. “It’s another online dating site.” But VC firms have shown a great deal of interest—almost $150 million worth since early 2010—in the revitalized online dating sector, which market research company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from various angel investors, two rounds... View Details