N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

After having two of my companies colapse around me within a ten year period, I spent a long long time wallowing in it…blaming everything but myself for my circumstances. In fact, many of the online survey companies (e.g. A company will be fortunate if the board acts at all, without some major problem forcing their hand.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

As retailers tally up sales from the crucial holiday period, the early returns look good: spending rebounded in 2010, with MasterCard reporting a 5.5 percent — and the 2010 holiday season may mark the first time that online spending accounts for more than 10 percent of all gift purchases. percent increase over the previous year.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

For instance, 82 percent of the companies on Fortune's 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For list offer telecommuting options. Last month the federal government stepped up its own efforts to expand options for how work is done when President Obama signed the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. They're spreading far and wide.

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Productivity Products Real Estate Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

But the reality for entrepreneurs outside of the established startup meccas is a difficult one: if you start a technology business somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay area, New York, or Boston, you’re stacking the deck against yourself. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. The more I participated in the ambient, informal life of the office, the more committed I became to the work of the company. There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

President Barack Obama , August 17, 2010. High growth ventures are more prevalent in basic industries than they are in the stereotypical technology sectors. High growth firms are more likely to be in food services, real estate, construction, commerce, logistics and manufacturing than in ICT and life sciences.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. Based on my observation of companies for almost a decade, I map out four levels that exemplify distinct stages through which companies may evolve on this journey.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

A lot of people may think it’s strange that an internet company would be so focused on the telephone, when only about 5% of our sales happen through that channel. Two days after our executive team made the decision, we held a company meeting and announced the move. However, our decision to relocate paid off in several ways.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

For example, a real estate agent might post breaking news on condo developments and include walk-through videos, behind-the-scenes advice, pictures and plans of buildings, comments from current and potential owners, and a social networking component to create a community of condo owners in her area. 2) Always add a contact form.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. Greenspan asked me to check that, and the actual line from the article was pretty close: “Asked in 2010 about those who warned that housing prices would crash, he responded, ‘Right. They are not.

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