Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After all, the legislation, passed in 2012 but stuck in SEC rule making until now, was intended to boost America’s entrepreneurial economy. is generating plenty of high-potential startups, they argued, yet there is a problem: These companies don’t seem to be scaling or reaching an exit, such as an IPO or an acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Apple’s stated intention was to carry out this $130 billion distribution of corporate cash to Apple shareholders between August 2012 and December 2015. Since August 2012, Apple has been on a buyback binge, expending a total of $53 billion on stock repurchases through the third quarter of 2014, the last figures it has disclosed.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. has steadily increased.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And in the six months since its IPO, Twitter’s been through a honeymoon , a backlash , and a backlash to the backlash. For example, in 2012 , some of the “re-imaginations” were note-taking, drawing, photography, and home improvement. It’s an annual report.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

According to a recent report , Facebook's ad revenue in 2012 will top $5 billion. If it wants to turn in a blockbuster IPO for its founders, it can't turn a blind eye to its friends. With that scale comes a new class of responsibilities—which will only be heightened as Facebook, as you've surely heard, becomes a public company.

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Advertising IPO Media Report 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004. The company subsequently went private in early 2012. 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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. What compels these companies to IPO prematurely is that they need to provide a liquidity event for their institutional investors, and sometimes for their founders or early employees. Some of them go public before even turning a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. But the startup could not keep pace with the development and scale of established battery makers, and production defects led to a $55 million recall in 2012 and contributed to the company’s bankruptcy later that year.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

And though the idea of VCs abandoning cleantech has been around since at least early 2012 , I was initially skeptical. ” Perhaps that’s because VCs got distracted by the siren song of social media companies, especially after Facebook’s incredibly successful 2012 IPO. Perhaps it’s because the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. The New York Times called 2012 the "year of the MOOC," demonstrating the mainstream appeal of massive online open courses that make education more accessible and affordable. One of 2012's most successful innovations was Nest's smart thermostat. The Internet of Things.

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Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S.

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Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. attempt to change the leadership and strategic direction of the company.

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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. We invested in the company in 2012 through our fund, with the government contributing 85%, and U.S.-based

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. Indeed was acquired for $1 billion in 2012, an acquisition that received surprisingly little fanfare despite the head-turning price for an NYC-area startup. Monster’s 1999 Super Bowl ad is considered to be one of the most memorable of all time.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In another example, a 60 Minutes report, in 2012, raised questions about allegations that Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) did not allow a vote to come up that, if passed, would have materially affected her stock in Visa (not to mention that she and her husband participated in an IPO around the same time the legislation was moving through the House).

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