The following article reviews various academic and industry studies on the historical performance of venture capital funds.
Read MoreWe are seeing that many top-tier venture capital firms are making some climate-related investments – not with a sole-purpose to save the planet, but because they are seeing real, sizable markets starting to develop. This article analyses the opportunities for climate-related investments.
Read MoreIn his seminal 1937 article on the Nature of the Firm, Nobel prize-winning economist Ronald Coase posited that the size and boundaries of companies are defined by transaction costs - that is how expensive it is to outsource various functions.
Read MoreLegend has it that in 1950, Frank McNamara, a businessman from New York, forgot his wallet when he went to a restaurant for dinner. This embarrassing episode sparked in him the idea of creating a card which he could use to pay for meals anywhere. A year later, he would return to the same restaurant and pay with his newly-created cardboard Diners Club card, the first multi-purpose charge card.
Read MoreTim Berners Lee created the first website in 1990. A decade later, it had become quite clear that the internet would fundamentally change our lives, and almost all businesses to create a “new economy”.
Read MoreIn 2002, Jeff Bezos famously decreed that all Amazon teams' software should communicate with each other via “API’s” (Application Programming Interfaces) – sets of well-defined rules (or “protocols”) used by different web sites and companies to talk to each other. It is said that Bezos insisted “anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired.”
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