Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Reply Leanne Hoagland-Smith October 8, 2010 at 9:42 am Agree your reading should be one of your professional development or mental development goals depending upon your own goal driven action plan. A balanced nutritional diet, a balanced reading diet, and of course that balance between our personal and professional lives.

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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. This was because the market for mobile games had become more competitive, making it difficult to acquire users cheaply. In fact, in-person pitches may now be a thing of the past.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in less than a year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

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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. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

During a recent analysts call, Apple's Tim Cook cited India's multi-layered distribution as the main reason for his company's small share of the market. The same challenge applies to start-ups that market solar lamps in India. Moreover, the market will double in size as literacy and income levels rise. Even in the U.S.,

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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. Thanks to over-the-air updates, new features and functionality can be pushed to the customer on a regular basis.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

And stitched into its origin story is a clue to why some products (and businesses) succeed in the market while most wither and die. In February, venture capitalist database CB Insights conducted an extensive review examining what contributes to the failure of new businesses. Test your marketing promise. They buy promises.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. So what is happening now? Emerging new education models.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand. It is working with an ecosystem of partners who are developing applications leveraging the dynamic learning and cloud computing capabilities of Watson.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

And, of course, it looks cool — both inside the organization and to outsiders. They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Worse, it sets a precedent for this type of authentic behavior that over time can trap a leader into an expectation or pattern of always behaving that way – and over the course of years this is a soul-destroying situation. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

about how our business, government and consumers will meet challenges around the environments, infrastructure, and of course, the economy. But there is also a bottom line argument: HBSC estimates that the global market for climate change solutions will grow to $2.2 trillion by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Most of the so-called unicorns — startups achieving billion-dollar valuations — are platforms: markets that connects buyers, sellers, and others, with the platform standing between them. They’re not. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Intrinsic in entrepreneurship is a long period of living in a twilight fluctuating between breakthrough market success and breakdown (i.e. Of course, engagement with entrepreneurs can lead to innovative new products, lucrative investments, new supply chains, advanced technology, and a more creative corporate culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Of course I don't mean everyone should go out and hire an assistant to man the velvet rope for you (though it's easier than ever, given the proliferation of online sites like Elance and oDesk.) There's a risk, of course, that saying no means you'll miss out on something. You can develop your own criteria for whom to "let in the gate."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. Of course, no one likes to pay taxes, but the Danes don''t complain as much as you might expect in part because they receive a high quantity and quality of public services for their taxes. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

To better understand this key marketing concept, I talked with Jill Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and an author of HBR’s Go To Market Tools. It’s also a useful metrics for venture capitalists, private equity investors, and investment analysts. There are, of course, other needs as well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

What’s important is that your management team is aware of these issues and can use that understanding to develop a solution that fits your business and allows you to deliver the most value to your customers. We need to mark our information assets to market or depreciate them as they become obsolete.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. But of course, every single thing almost never goes perfectly. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. Acumen creates these markets using patient capital. Triple the U.S. population by three. How do we do that?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. The result was that their ideas were not developed. Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. The market now rewards the long-term vision and continual investment in new growth represented by these younger enterprises. Besides exposing existing markets, a TAP mindset uncovers potential opportunities before there’s a market for them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Gone are the days when the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road were merely an elite cash dispensary.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust. Take Motorola, for instance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In this environment, a new 4G only player has entered in 2016 with an initial investment of $20 billion in network and market infrastructure. With highly affordable 4G mobile technology, it is likely that non-classroom based courses will find a platform to expand dramatically in India.

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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. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

He wouldn't approve any further development. In a room filled with marketers and developers, the product manager exploded: "What could I say or show you that would get you to change your mind?". The pitch can be before venture capitalists, brand managers, product review committees and/or the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

The good news is that transactions often happen as a matter of course when sales teams focus on building great relationships with generosity. That's what's going to arrest people's attention and make them willing to develop a closer relationship with you. Generosity Without Expectations of Tit for Tat. What kind of homework?

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