Ideas Made to Matter Finance

New fund structures in PE: Proceed with caution

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MIT Sloan research finds top-quartile investors ink better deals and record better returns. Other investors, not so much.

Sep 19, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Venture Capital

2 strong predictors of startup success

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Successful companies tend to set up shop in Delaware and protect their ideas.

Aug 5, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Venture Capital

Questions to ask before accepting venture capital

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And what VCs will ask to avoid the "cardinal sin" of startup investing.

Apr 22, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Innovation

Radical innovation needs a ‘hot market.’ So now what?

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Research shows investors take on riskier projects in a hot market. Here’s how entrepreneurs should adjust when that market cools.

Jan 29, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Data

Big data helps large firms grow even bigger

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New research shows big data benefits large firms over small ones.

Oct 1, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Venture Capital

Here’s what Riot Ventures is investing in — and why

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Steve Marcus looks for big ideas in their earliest stages.

Sep 28, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Venture Capital

The industries Vinod Khosla sees ready for disruption

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Bonus insight: Change isn’t propelled by organizational structure.

Sep 24, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Venture Capital

Former Autodesk CEO Carl Bass on activist investors

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‘They’re in the wealth-transfer business.‘

Sep 10, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Startups

2 founders are not always better than 1

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Team superiority is a myth.

May 30, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Entrepreneurship

The 20-year-old entrepreneur is a lie

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Data shows the average age of successful business founders is 42.

Apr 20, 2018
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