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Early Exits - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, November 15, 2010 Early Exits Angel investors and VCs all like to sell one of their portfolio companies. Basil Peters, a famous angel investor wrote a book Early Exits - Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (and maybe not VCs). This is called the exit.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

But back in 2010, Chris Trimble criticized 20% time both for being expensive and for emphasizing ideas over execution. From there, the authors offer advice including building innovation into job descriptions, and trusting users to inform product strategy. Google hasn’t just changed management by virtue of its own practices.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy. In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

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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Why GM's Gratitude Is Worth Sharing

Harvard Business Review

Two years have now passed, GM has repaid part of the bailout, and it just executed a successful IPO. Post-IPO, GM isn't seen as spending taxpayer money on advertising. The fact is, this is 2010 and the bailout happened. Its new communications strategy is to run few corporate ads and to focus instead on the individual brands.

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S.

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The Problem with Groupon's Business Model

Harvard Business Review

billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010. The smart money went along, with Groupon valued at $15-20 billion, according to some observers anticipating rich pickings in the IPO-to-come. One of the fastest growing of the recent hatch of Internet darlings, the deal-a-day company was worth $5.3 But not so fast.