The Horizons Tracker
JULY 13, 2022
University spinouts represent a major source of innovation but a recent report into the sector by the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub and Beauhurst suggests all is not as healthy as it might be. The researchers have tracked over 50,000 high-growth businesses across the UK since 2011, with 1,628 of these identified as spinouts.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2012
And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO. I don't mean to suggest it will fall 70% in value after its IPO pop.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2014
Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 10, 2013
I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D. I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 23, 2013
From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. Tech companies see engineers move to and fro frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 29, 2015
Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.
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