Daniel Isenberg is a Professor of Entrepreneurship Practice at

Babson College Babson College is a Private university, private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States specializing in entrepreneurship education. Founded in 1919 by Roger Babson, the college was established as the Babson Institute in his We ...

Executive Education where he established the Babson

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Project (BEEP). He is the author of the book ''Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value'' ( Harvard Business Press, 2013). Isenberg was an entrepreneur himself for 16 years and was also a

venture capital Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to start-up company, startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in ...

ist. He is an

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in several ventures.

Career

In 1981 Isenberg was awarded his Ph.D. in

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from

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. Isenberg taught at the

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from 1981-1987 in the

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unit and from 2005-2009 in the Entrepreneurial Management unit. Isenberg designed and led HBS’s new India and Israel International Immersion Programs on

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. He has been a visiting or adjunct professor at Babson College, Columbia,

INSEAD INSEAD ( ; French: ''Institut européen d'administration des affaires'') is a non-profit business school with locations in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and North America (San Francisco, USA ...

, Reykjavik, and the Technion. At Technion he created and taught the first graduate course in entrepreneurship in 1987-1989, co-founded the Tefen Entrepreneurs Program with Stef Wertheimer, and directed the Technion Entrepreneurial Associates with Professor Ed Roberts from

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. Isenberg wrote ''Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value'' published by Harvard Business Press (2013). At the

Entrepreneurial Management unit, Isenberg published over three dozen cases on entrepreneurship, as well as numerous seminal articles in the

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, including ''The Global Entrepreneur'' (2008), ''Entrepreneurs and the Cult of Failure'' (2011) and ''How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution'' (2010). He writes a blog for the ''

'' and also blogs for ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Business leadership

In 1990 Isenberg founded Triangle Technologies in

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, which he ran as

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until 2005. He helped established two venture capital funds and from 1997-2001 Isenberg was a general partner at

Jerusalem Venture Partners Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an international Venture capital in Israel, venture capital firm founded in 1993. The fund specializes in investments in Startup company, startup companies, focusing on digital media, enterprise software, semic ...

, and since has personally invested in over a dozen startup ventures, including Cyota and My Basis, both of which were acquired.

References

External links

Harvard Business Review blog
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