Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet? A balanced nutritional diet, a balanced reading diet, and of course that balance between our personal and professional lives. You can’t talk about this too much.

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

VCs rely on their pattern recognition skills, developed through numerous meetings with entrepreneurs and hundreds of hours spent flipping through pitch decks and industry studies and connecting the dots in the vague universe of startup facts and outcomes. What is the way out of this idea? Execution matters. We get attached to our decisions.

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Consensus Venture Capitalist Long-term Due Diligence 344

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Unusually Excellent : The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s insight was that the key to overcoming these challenges and to improving corporate co-innovation is not for companies to compete more effectively with private venture capitalists or accelerators, but to focus on what they can offer to top startups that others cannot.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

And of course, products can now be connected with other products, leading to new analytics and new services for more effective forecasting, process optimization, and customer service experiences. In his classic book Competitive Strategy , Michael Porter describes three generic strategies: differentiation, cost leadership, and focus.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 13

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. There is, of course, no one way to do a good pitch remotely during these trying times. He is also a venture partner at several VC firms. Conclusion.

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 324

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow. Across the programs studied, Yale School of Management topped the chart with 95% of its course offerings in 2009 incorporating social benefit content. From this, the Social Enterprise Initiative was born.

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Venture Capitalist Bottom-up Committee Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. Alignment can take a while.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Not one retired to the golf course. Over half assume leadership positions at nonprofit organizations and almost all are philanthropic. .’” “Within weeks of retiring I had opportunities to join a major board, and exciting invitations from venture capitalists to play an active role in FinTech companies.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. You establish your goal (where you want to go) and your position (where you are now), and then develop your strategy (how to get from your position to your goal in the most efficient and effective way).

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Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. The effort also positions Medtronic to dramatically expand in those markets as it develops new technologies that lower costs. (

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Find out how he or she thinks about leadership and innovation. Teach a course at a university or local college. Be the connector for this group of people. Learn from your students.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But of course, every single thing almost never goes perfectly. So Acumen finds entrepreneurs on site in the developing world, funds them, teaches them and pushes them to build really big organizations. It means you are on the edge at all times. It makes life itself an emergency.

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Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Taking this into consideration, only five of the 53 award-winning and best selling cases actually describe the leadership of an actual women protagonist – about 9%. in a leadership position (the protagonist). But counting the number of protagonists is only scratching the surface. who speak to each other. Impoverished descriptions.

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Case Study Venture Capitalist Education Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It feels like a treat, witnessing aspiration and insight blend into leadership to create something new. Luis (not his real name), however, had not come to see me for leadership advice. All educational institutions have a dual social function: to develop individuals and to develop culture. Efficiency. Democratization.

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Education Venture Capitalist Technology Learning-by-Doing 10