Class Competition Course Writing 
socalTECH
OCTOBER 11, 2010
Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2014
It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” Of course the concentration of capital in growth firms and the intense competition to fund the best deals leads to some risks.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 12, 2014
If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. Underbelly.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
The poor performance of the asset class (this analysis has largely been wrong as I pointed out here –> most analyses were clumsy rear-view mirror looks at the data). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). On the surface the narratives have been. Why is this?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 31, 2012
Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Of course it happens all the time?—?especially This is the norm and unless you have a hugely competitive round it’s not worth fighting. This is not true in the majority of cases but rather when you have competition in your round and feel confident in using your leverage. What happens at the A-round of venture capital?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 1, 2016
And that’s real cash that LPs can’t put to work in other asset classes. But the problem for LPs is that as VCs write bigger checks with increased frequency, these firms go “back in the market” to raise funds more quickly than in the past. Another Area of Concern is in the Seed Investor Class.
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