Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Square , a financial services start-up created by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, markets its transaction processing services directly to consumers and small businesses via the Internet. A problem with partnerships full of inter-dependencies is that they are slow to make big changes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

But such a change would probably not change how resources are allocated or businesses operate. Fanatic Studio/Getty Images. Many people have suggested moving away from quarterly earnings reporting as a way to reduce short-termism. ” argument for why a company should deliver a long-term plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Every designer was insanely talented, both visually and technically." Most recently he left Facebook and joined with Enrique Allen to cofound The Designer Fund. Many years ago I followed a process not at all unlike this one and, without exaggeration, it changed the course of my life. And so, he decided to join in the effort.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Although female-founded companies represent a greater percentage of First Round’s investments than the national average — startups with at least one female cofounder account for approximately 18% of new VC-backed new ventures in the U.S. — they were still the minority of investments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

But is all of that changing? Indeed, the pattern of scaling seems to be changing meaningfully in recent years. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. billion, compared to just $1.2

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. ” “When you begin to work with your family, the trajectory of your relationship changes,” he adds.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem that Etosha and her cofounders ran into when they first sought to leverage the Silicon Valley ecosystem to get their business off the ground was that venture investors typically want to see a real product. All they had were some chemistry papers, scientific data, and an idea to change the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Managers who can’t seem to pick a course of action — or who constantly change their minds – can be maddening. “I needed to show him that we had the best technical minds in the company working on this and that we weren’t being lazy; we were just limited by technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. Leaders at Yelp wanted things to change for two main reasons. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S.

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