Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

VC investment in cleantech “has declined sharply since 2011” according to a new analysis by the Brookings Institution. VC funding for cleantech went down during the recession, but as a share of total VC funding it held steady at 15-17% from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, cleantech represented nearly 17% of total U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. A recent study found that SSOs published more than 200,000 standards between 1975 and 2011. Now they are very focused on making money.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

The smart money went along, with Groupon valued at $15-20 billion, according to some observers anticipating rich pickings in the IPO-to-come. Not long after that was published, on Friday, July 8, 2011, the Wall Street Journal printed an article entitled " Groupon's Boston Problem: Copycats." But not so fast.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reported that their sales were $59 million in 2010 and rose 40% in the first half of 2011, with the company reportedly heading toward an IPO in the near future. Second, Angie's List has multiple sources of revenue to draw upon, including advertising revenue from highly rated providers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The company has since received a commendation letter from the Nigerian Presidency, and was one of ten companies (out of 3,300 firms) recognized in the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship , which was organized by Legatum and Omidyar Network (a foundation started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam). It's something that U.S.

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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. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. Even successful Internet companies like Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba are closely held and most of the gains from their IPOs went to the top managers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Twitter and Zulily popped more than 70% and 80% respectively on the day of their recent IPOs. Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

When Facebook announced its recent $5 billion IPO , many applauded the company's mission to connect friends and make the world a more open place. In 2011, that number was 250 million. Experts described Zuckerberg as " noble ," " grandiose ," and " downright inspirational." In 2009, we produced 27 million tweets per day.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. One of Ford's much touted successes on Facebook was its introduction of the 2011 Ford Explorer via its "Reveal" campaign. Controversy erupted. Accusations ensued.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 Now, the venture capital markets cannot supply more capital and the company must depend on the IPO market to finance its money-losing operations. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Business-to-consumer subscription businesses have attracted more than 11 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. One of Ford's much touted successes on Facebook was its introduction of the 2011 Ford Explorer via its "Reveal" campaign. Controversy erupted. Accusations ensued.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Nevertheless, our look at the reactions of 34 incumbent firms to "free" entrants across 26 product markets showed that launching a "free" strategy is too often a last resort, if undertaken at all (See my article, " Competing Against Free ," with co-authors Jeff Dyer and Nile Hatch, in the June 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review ).

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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%. For founders thinking about launching companies outside of New York, Massachusetts, or California, that means your odds of pre-IPO success are automatically lower before you’ve even started.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. I’ve looked up every company that did an IPO in the U.S. There is a possible consolation prize: perhaps these kids can parlay their programming skill into jobs at Facebook or Google. Unfortunately, the odds there are only slightly better. since 2000.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Poring through the IPO documentation of several larger competitors that had introduced similar devices, they produced a set of financial data that showed the growth and profitability of competing products. By 2011, the company revenues were $86 million, and it filed for its own public stock offering.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Consider Zipcar, whose recent IPO valued the 11-year old company at over $1 billion. Stephen Wunker is the author of Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don't (McGraw-Hill, June, 2011). This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

In a 2011 paper , researchers from HBS, Columbia, and the University of Chicago looked at the success of 472 tech buyouts based on a novel measure: patents. Lerner has another paper relevant to the Dell case, which looks at the performance of buyout companies'' stock prices after they IPO, including public firms taken private in the deal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. That may say more about the xenophobia of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Rather than tying up vast amounts of funds in a unicorn startup and waiting for the long play — an IPO or an acquisition — investors can see gains more quickly, and can pull profits out more easily, via ICOs. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

That may just be because some of the partnership ethos lived on nine years after the IPO, meaning that the firm is unlikely to do so well in the next financial crisis. In 2011 — a bad year for trading — investment banking generated just $4.6 But it feels like the end of the partnership can't be the whole answer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example, IMCD, now a global leader in specialty chemicals distribution, made some forty acquisitions and quintupled its revenues since its carve-out from IM twenty years ago, while having been owned by three different private equity investors prior to its IPO in 2014.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. You clearly have a different point of view on distributions to shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

.” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. In recent years, many high-profile companies, including Volkswagen, Yahoo, Turner/Warner Bros, and Coca-Cola, have shuttered their VC arms or accelerators entirely.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004. There have also been changes in the framework agreement around the ownership of Alipay in both 2011 and 2012, as well as a buyback of almost half of the Yahoo stake in May of 2012 for $7 billion. The company subsequently went private in early 2012.

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