CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, November 15, 2010 Early Exits Angel investors and VCs all like to sell one of their portfolio companies. I call it CEO Blog - Time Leadership because of my keen interest in time. I am CEO between positions. This is called the exit. Yes - the title includes the maybe not VCs part.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The startup had been well on its way to initiating an IPO back in 2019 but the pandemic drove the idea completely out of the works. After its first failed IPO attempt, the company struggled to bring its valuation up at all. After the company’s initial launch in 2010, WeWork has faced many uphill battles in its journey.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

But back in 2010, Chris Trimble criticized 20% time both for being expensive and for emphasizing ideas over execution. Google wasn’t the first example (see: Apple) but the meme is closely linked to former CEO Eric Schmidt’s role at the company. Business in the age of Google.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

A charismatic CEO with the willingness to accept a setback, move in a different direction, and persevere to achieve this new and difficult vision can succeed where most fail. One CEO who had the ability to turn around a disaster was Frank Baldino of Cephalon. When disaster strikes, a forward-thinking CEO needs a back-up plan.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The quote comes from author, tech thinker, and now public-TV personality Steven Johnson: “The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” he told David Carr of The New York Times in January 2010. billion in less than a year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Companies that separate the roles of CEO and chairman and appoint strong outsiders to the latter position may have one advantage: they are more likely to benefit from strong governance. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO. The Volkswagen debacle, just like other big crises, reminds us how expensive weak governance can be.

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