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Entrepreneurs - their vision, energy and drive - are the
source of value creation.
We
love supporting entrepreneurs driven to deliver better solutions and in the
process build industry transforming companies.
Some
of the challenges in this “journey” of building and scaling
companies is in putting together the right team, attracting great people and
keeping them. Other common
"growth challenges" come as a company further grows, when it is
often necessary to "change gears": upgrade talent and systems, and
in parallel ensuring the right information flow to the right people so good
decisions can be made in a timely manner and the right culture is sustained
even as the company grows in size and complexity.
We
are in the company building business, not in the "deal" or
"capital" business. We
leverage our relationships to help build teams, attract partners and help
companies realise their vision. We do everything we can for our
companies as we are "on the same boat" as soon as we invest.
To
give entrepreneurs a kick-start, here below is some of our favourite stuff:
Entrepreneurship
"What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial"
"Why
entrepreneurs don't scale"
"How
you too can be an unstoppable entrepreneur"
"Failure
as a tool" (video)
"23
things every entrepreneur must know"
"What
is the most difficult CEO skill"
"Q+A
on 'The hard things about hard things'"
"Do things that don't scale"
Growing, growing up and scaling
"The
questions every entrepreneur must answer"
"How to
hire the best people you have ever worked with" (from Marc
Andreessen)
"From
initial traction to initial scale: the hardest phase"
“At
about US$2m ARR, every great hire will be accretive”
What’s
the second job of a startup CEO?
"All
revenue is not created equal" (from Bill Gurley)
“Churn
is the single metric that determines the success of your subscription service”
"What
is the most difficult CEO skill"
"Teamwork
at the top"
"Building
a better board"
"The
decision-driven organization"
Financing and getting funded
How to raise money
What to know about due diligence
"Pitch
advice for entrepreneurs" / "What I wish I knew before pitching linkedin to VCs" (link to LinkedIn's Series B pitch
deck)
Airbnb's
pitch deck
LinkedIn
Founder Reid Hoffman’s Advice for Entrepreneurs
"Note on private
equity deal structures"
International VC
and private equity valuation guideline
"Talking
it over, and over, and over" (an interesting and short take on how
to deal with investors)
Advantages
of private equity ownership
“Clean, efficient and smart”
McKinsey’s
cost curve for greenhouse gas reductions
(And
15 years after McKinsey published its first carbon cost curve, here’s
Goldman Sach’s China carbon cost curve (and how it reflects the massive
cost reduction of renewable technologies)!
Carbonomics: China net zero
Are
you ready for the resource revolution
How
smart, connected products are transforming competition
The
Internet of Things
Internet
of things: which things really should phone home
The Netscape
moment in IOT
Big
data: the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity
The
Greentech Media report on "Intelligent Efficiency"
Intelligent
assets: unlocking the circular economy potential
The
future of employment: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation
(the famous "are robots leaving us out of jobs" study)
Resiliency
Unburnable
carbon: are the world's financial markets carrying a carbon bubble?
How
technology is reshaping supply and demand for natural resources
The
role of critical minerals in clean energy transitions
For the year 2020: resources for corporate leaders
and for startup CEOs in crisis
The
CEO moment: leadership for a new era
Risk,
resilience and rebalancing in global value chains
The
CEO playbook for keeping your company alive
28 moves to
survive (and thrive) in a downturn
Others – innovation, emerging markets, China,
data
How
important it is to be clear about assumptions
Where
companies with long-term view outperform their peers (a McKinsey-led
project, with a write-up of the results in the HBR here)
Outperformers:
high-growth emerging economies and the companies that propel them (a
McKinsey Global Institute project)
Stanford’s
AI Index Report
Grow
fast or die slow
Innovation
is broken
China's
innovation imperative
China’s
new innovation advantage
Capturing
China's US$5 trillion productivity opportunity
Digital
vortex: how digital disruption is redefining industries (Cisco / IMD)
Ten
tech-enabled business trends for the decade ahead (and
an earlier version discussing "smart assets")
Cleantech
venture capital: continued declines and narrow geography limit prospects
(Brookings Institute, 2017)
How to win the digital race by coming
in second …. (responding to disruption)
Superstars:
the dynamics of firms, sectors, and cities leading the global economy
McKinsey’s
latest research on “The
power of one”
Global
flows: The ties that bind in an interconnected world
Optimizing
machines is perilous. Consider ‘creatively adequate’ AI: The
future of artificial intelligence
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