Terry Starbucker
JANUARY 13, 2013
In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist. The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers. Walter was named among 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2012.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 10, 2012
I have been a consistent user of social media for many years. Once consumers accepted the quid pro quo of viewing advertisements in exchange for free service, social networks became marketing media along the lines of television, radio, magazines, and newspapers before them.
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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. According to data from the U.S.
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
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 6, 2014
In the media and internet industries, it turns out to be very important when operating in China. All entrants faced a similar set of circumstances and conditions, including unfamiliar laws and customs as well as an array of business challenges – for example, non-Chinese social-media sites are blocked to a greater extent than local ones.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 10, 2013
For example, Google ultimately emerged as a disruptive force that has transformed pieces of the media business. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. One of 2012's most successful innovations was Nest's smart thermostat. Finally, it was a big year, for better or worse, for unmanned aerial vehicles (drones).
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