2009 Innovation Operations Venture Capitalist 
Harvard Business Review
JULY 7, 2015
Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2011
Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. In 2009, the U.S. Most technology ventures in China are of the C2C variety, i.e., Copy-To-China. An analysis of data on patents granted by the U.S.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises.
Strategy Driven
MAY 25, 2011
And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When they’re punished, you instill a fear of risk-taking in your employees, and with that you stifle creativity and innovation.
Strategy Driven
MAY 25, 2011
And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When they’re punished, you instill a fear of risk-taking in your employees, and with that you stifle creativity and innovation.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2013
Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has helped fledgling projects raise nearly $1 billion in donations. services such as Kickstarter (and others including Indiegogo and Rockethub ) have operated on a donation model. We call this the victory of “innovation by combine” over traditional “innovation by design.”.
Strategy Driven
APRIL 22, 2011
Because innovation requires it. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms.
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