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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

After Stanford undergrad, I helped start and build Better Place – at one time famous for raising a $350 million Series B in what the Economist called the “Netscape moment for Cleantech,” only to end up infamous and in bankruptcy almost a billion dollars of funding and five years later. Success and fundraising are not one and the same.

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You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely!

Occam's Razor

Bonuses have been distributed. If you never deliberate, you slowly silently reach the point of no return and file bankruptcy protection. I was advising a stealth mobile application company (hello future one billion Facebook dollars!) You feel proud because you started with just 5% of the traffic from search engines.

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