The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 28, 2022
Engines of creation. Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2014
venture-capital investment was for hardware start-ups last year, but that represents a big increase from 1992–2011, when the figure was less than 1% , says the Wall Street Journal. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups. Only 3% of U.S. Entrepreneurship'
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2012
A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Universities are rapidly growing their engineering courses. Venture capitalists are creating software engineering academies in their own cities.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 20, 2011
’ In this case very few of these requested changes, which came at great expense in engineering time and cost, resulted in orders from the people who had passionately argued the case. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. And you can control it through continuous and open communication with every member of your team.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2012
Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. This expansion isn't just domestic.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 16, 2016
The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. The Era of Big Science. Innovating the Innovation Process.
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