I have accumulated a backlog of interesting questions posed to me by founders and investors (and by my students!). For many of them, my quantitative CompStudy data should be able to provide some answers. In this post, I will tackle…
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Investors (and Managers) as Headhunters: Sources of New-Venture Executives
How much of a role do investors play in helping portfolio companies find executive hires? A year and a half ago, two students of mine conducted a survey of entrepreneurs regarding how much value their VCs were adding to their…
Due Diligence on Your Investors, Revisited
Note: For an overview of the issues covered in this blog’s past posts, click here. Thank you to everyone who contributed suggestions and insights to the recent posts on founder scenes and split boards! Now that I have wrapped up…
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“Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap”: A Postscript (Entrepreneur-Investors)
Note from Noam: Last year, 2 HBS second-year MBA students, Matthew Louie and Cali Tran, did a survey-based study of 51 entrepreneurs and 81 VCs. Part 1 was the project overview, Part 2 summarized the entrepreneur results, and Part 3…
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“Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap”: Part 3 (Entrepreneur vs. Investor)
Note from Noam: This is the third part of the summary of a survey project by Matthew Louie and Cali Tran, who were 2nd-year MBA students at Harvard this past year. Part 1 was the project overview, Part 2 summarized…
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“Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap”: Part 2 (Entrepreneur Results)
Note from Noam: This is the second part of the summary of a survey project by Matthew Louie and Cali Tran, who were 2nd-year MBA students at Harvard this past year. Part 1 was the project overview, Part 2…
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“Investor/Entrepreneur Value Expectation Gap”: Part 1 (Project Overview)
Do VCs deliver the “value adds” that entrepreneurs expect them to deliver? Note from Noam: This past year, to help inform their future careers in private equity, 2 HBS second-year MBA students, Matthew Louie and Cali Tran, did a survey-based…
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Due Diligence As a One-way Street
How much do you know about what goes on within your VCs’ own firms? During my time in VC, we did a lot of due diligence on the founders in whom we might invest, learning about their personalities, work histories,…
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Nike, Cyberposium, and Jim Estill: 3 Takes on Founder-CEO Succession
With our required MBA course in Entrepreneurial Management under way, I have less time to post research results and related items here. However, here are three quick items I recently accumulated related to the “After the Firing” side of my…
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Thanksgiving Dinner … With Your Investors
The “Founding with Friends, Founding with Strangers?” post suggested that starting a company with friends can introduced big risks, an assertion that was echoed and amplified by many of the comments, experiences, and insights that people posted in response. Among…
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