Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. Three factors could impede Facebook's growth: Increasing Shift to Mobile Utilization will Continue to Hurt Advertising Through its website, Facebook has built a massive advertising business. Facebook is not Groupon.

IPO 15

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. However, the ultimate test for a business model comes not from being the disruptor but from how resilient it is to disruption itself.

Business Model 10

Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria. Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

Career 10

Career Company IPO Christensen 10

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Coupled with that our Usability engineers made some changes based on the feedback they received from “ eye-gaze tracking &# and hotspot analysis. Co-branding , of course is an out-of-the-box feature.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. Let's start with the human side. You get this.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 13

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 13