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- Corporate Venture Capital and Incumbent Firm Innovation Rates
- This paper focuses on the potential strategic benefits to corporate venture capital, i.e. equity investments in entrepreneurial ventures by incumbent firms. The paper's investigation builds on two theoretical pillars. First, that incumbent firms operating in competitive markets are inclined towards introducing innovations. Second that the knowledge necessary to generate innovation...
- White papers 2002-03-25
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- A Central Tension in Any Entrepreneurial Venture: Marrying Your Business But Also Keeping a Safe Distance
- Continuing my riff on the role of passion in decision making, heres a central tension in any entrepreneurial venture you dont hear talked about much:It demands complete emotional committment to be successful, but youre also told not to have your self-esteem / self-worth too invested in the success or failure...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- A Central Tension in Any Entrepreneurial Venture: Marrying Your Business But Also Keeping a Safe Distance
- A Central Tension in Any Entrepreneurial Venture: Marrying Your Business But Also Keeping a Safe DistanceHave A PurposeWhen I bought this company, I had been managing it for several years and I poured everything into it. My family is full of business owners/starters who were fanatical about their...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- Assessing Your Entrepreneurial Profile
- Now that you are thinking about starting a business, you will need to think about your own role in it. Are you the type of person who can make a success of a new venture? Being an entrepreneur may sound very exciting, but not everyone has the aptitude. And it...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- Moving to Your Next Entrepreneurial Venture
- Some entrepreneurs are absolute masters at launching new ventures. They live for the thrill of inventing a new product, developing a new service, building a business from the ground up, and attracting the customers who will make that business succeed. They may be inspirational leaders who can motivate their colleagues...
- Articles 2007-07-16
- Finding Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- Any entrepreneurial venture requires a great deal of hard work, patience, dedication, etc. Looking for an easy way is just setting up to be taken. Article examines on how to look for opportunities. It's available in paperback from local bookstore and suggests appropriate strategies for taking advantage of what to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Monster Founder Jeff Taylor to Launch New Internet Venture; Company To Provide Seed Capital For His New Entrepreneurial Venture
- NEW YORK -- Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST), the parent company of the leading global online careers property, MonsterR, today announced that Jeff Taylor, founder of the online job board Monster.com, will be leaving in August to establish a new venture. The company also announced its current plans to provide...
- Research articles 2005-06-13
- Eckerd College's Oldest Graduate Starts Florida Entrepreneurial Venture.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
- ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--May 22--It seemed natural for James O'Donnell to hire fellow Eckerd College graduates for his new business venture. He hired the first one three years ago when the O'Donnell Organization went into the hazardous waste site cleanup business. The company now has evolved...
- Research articles 1996-05-22
- Mayfield Fund Hires Navin Chaddha as Managing Director; Successful Venture Investor, Serial Entrepreneur, Corporate Executive and India Expert Rounds Out Investing Team at Mayfield Fund
- MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Mayfield Fund today announced the addition of Navin Chaddha as Managing Director. Navin has significant entrepreneurial, venture and corporate experience in the software, communications, and consumer sectors as well as a successful track record of investing in India since the late 1990s. "Navin's track record...
- Research articles 2006-09-06
- When Do Incumbents Learn From Entrepreneurial Ventures?: Corporate Venture Capital and Investing Firm Innovation Rates
- In this paper, one focuses on the potential innovative benefits to Corporate Venture Capital CVC, i.e. equity investments in entrepreneurial ventures by incumbent firms. This paper proposes that corporate venture capital programs may be instrumental in harvesting innovations from entrepreneurial ventures and thus an important part of a firm's overall...
- White papers 2005-04-28
- Yale Entrepreneurial Society hosts venture summit.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 January 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale Entrepreneurial Society hosts venture summit C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18012001 New Haven, Conn. -- The Yale Entrepreneurial Society will host "YES New York: The Yale Venture Summit," on Thursday, February 8, from 6:30 to...
- Research articles 2001-01-18
- Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Examining Preferences For Causal And Effectual Reasoning In The New Venture Creation Process
- A growing body of studies emphasizes the discovery of opportunities and the decision to exploit them as the essence of entrepreneurial activity. Following this stream of research, the paper presents a study that examines entrepreneurs' preferences for causal and effectual reasoning in the new venture creation process. The dominating view...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- BioCrossroads' Indiana Future Fund Entrepreneurial Forum to Make Stop in Indianapolis; Event Will Showcase IU School of Medicine Research and Commercialization Opportunities to Venture Capitalists
- INDIANAPOLIS -- On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, the BioCrossroads life sciences initiative, Indiana University and the Indiana University School of Medicine will host the Indiana Future Fund Entrepreneurial Forum in Indianapolis. This is the fourth Entrepreneurial Forum that BioCrossroads has sponsored, with support from Indiana Future Fund professional management...
- Research articles 2006-01-11
- Creation of an entrepreneurial university culture, the University of Arkansas as a case study
- Creation of an Entrepreneurial University Culture, The University of Arkansas as a Case Study* ABSTRACT Many universities successfully accomplish their primary mission of teaching and/or research, and yet have not established or nurtured a tradition of new venture creation based on those teaching and research successes. This lack of entrepreneurial...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
- The paper studies the effects of tax policy on venture capital activity. Entrepreneurs pursue a single high risk project each but have no own resources. Financiers provide equity finance. They must structure the entrepreneur's profit share and base salary to assure their incentives for full effort. In addition to providing...
- White papers 2000-10-16
- Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
- It has been estimated that ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. Most high-technology entrepreneurs are convinced that their ideas hold immense promise. Often, their excitement is well founded. Moreover, the intellectual talents of the founding team may be stellar. However, many...
- White papers 2001-11-05
- Entrepreneurial Orientation in Management Buy-Outs and the Contribution of Venture Capital
- This paper focuses on the development of entrepreneurial orientation EO after a management buy-out MBO and on the role played by venture capital firms in enhancing EO. It presents results of two exploratory case studies of divisional buy-outs with regard to their EO and the areas where the venture capital...
- White papers 2002-09-03
- Catalyst Partners Announces Formation of Catalyst Entrepreneurial Fund I, LP
- COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 3, 1999-- Catalyst Partners, Inc. a long-time "venture catalyst" for startup companies, announces the formation of Catalyst Entrepreneurial Fund I, LP, a new venture fund focused on making early-stage, venture capital investments in promising new information technology and internet startups headquartered in the Rocky Mountain...
- Research articles 1999-08-03
- The Entrepreneurial Event Revisited: Firm Formation in a Regional Context
- This paper outlines the development of an entrepreneurial culture in the US Capitol region and the formation of a regional industrial cluster. The conditions that the literature associates with entrepreneurship lag rather than lead the development of the cluster. Supportive social capital, venture capital and entrepreneurial support services, as well...
- White papers 2001-11-30
- Seven Characteristics of Highly Effective Entrepreneurial Employees
- Fast growing, entrepreneurial organizations need employees who regularly demonstrate entrepreneurial characteristics and work habits. Management of entrepreneurial companies must work diligently to recognize, identify and attract this type of employee during the recruitment process to assure a steady stream of the people with the "Right Stuff" to fuel growth of...
- White papers 2005-01-04
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